Transitioning to Psychiatry Training

Transitioning to Psychiatry Training

Level ~ Graduate Certificate
Availability ~ Semester 1

Commencing psychiatry training is a time of major transitions. So much to learn about being a registrar, RANZCP assessment expectations, and psychiatry! Plus the complexities of family, friends and life. This semester supports your exploration of core concepts, skills and scenarios required for contemporary psychiatric practice in Australia. Individual topics are those described in the Psychiatric Medicine Units Recovery Focused Psychiatric Medicine and A Whole Person Approach to Psychiatry.

Exam Preparation sessions will focus on transition to training, understanding the major RANZCP assessments, and developing Critical Analysis Question related skills.


Learning Outcomes

Available in MyHETI.


Teaching Schedule
Topic 1 Orientation to Psychiatric Medicine
Topic 2 Making a good start – Engaging, interviewing and assessing
Topic 3 Formulation and Care Planning
Topic 4 Using diagnosis wisely
Topic 5 Recovery-oriented use of mental health legislation
Topic 6 Recovery-oriented management of psychiatric emergencies
Topic 7Professionalism, Ethics and Wellbeing
Topic 8Underpinnings of Recovery-Oriented Psychiatry
Week 9Mental health care in Australia
Week 10Evidence-based practice and recovery-oriented care
Week 11Psychoses: Biologically or socially determined?
Week 12OCD and psychosis
Week 13Introduction to substance related disorders
Week 14Neurosciences, Mental Illness and the MCQ
Week 15Excellence in Care: Warranted and Unwarranted Variation in Care
Week 16 Understanding depression
Week 17Working with people with mood disorders
Week 18 Understanding Anxiety
Week 19Influences of normal development for practice
Week 20Excellence in care across settings