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Medical Students Emma Pounder and Juan Lopez Tiboni pipped 5 other teams to win with their take on the title “Cannabis: Path to Nirvana or Road to Perdition?” You can watch parts of their presentation below. Following a close race at the Button Factory in Dublin on Thursday 21st November 2019, Emma Pounder and Juan […]
Speaking to Morning Ireland in advance of the conference Cannabis and Adolescence: From Science to Clinical Practice, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Gerry McCarney discussed misconceptions around cannabis addiction and the effects of cannabis on young people. You can listen to the full interview here. Speaking on the common misconception that cannabis is not physically […]
The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland is delighted to announce its annual essay competition which is now open to submission from current Medical Students as well as those in their Intern Year. The essay competition is an initiative of the Trainee Committee of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, which has been running annually since 2010 with great […]
A joint conference with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland, the two-day programme of the College Winter Conference, themed Psychiatry and Conflict, aims to explore issues around conflict in many and varied contexts. A focus on crisis interventions in both jurisdictions (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) will feature tomorrow afternoon, Friday 15th […]
Speaking to the Medical Independent in advance of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Joint conference with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland titled Psychiatry and Conflict, President of the College Dr John Hillery discussed what attendees can expect of the programme, as well as issues around Psychiatry training. You can read the full Medical Independent […]
“Cannabis: Path to Nirvana or Road to Perdition” – the question this years teams will present on in the hopes of clinching the 2019 Spike Milligan Trophy. The Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition is an All-Ireland Intervarsity Competition for medical students which aims to foster the development of communication skills and mental health awareness, all […]
An article in the Irish Times describing new research by Adolescent Addiction Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Bobby Smyth, along with Anne O’Farrell and Antoinette Daly, highlights the rise in admissions to general and psychiatric hospitals from 2008 to 2016. This follows a decline in the perceived risk of regular recreational consumption of cannabis. You can read the […]
Two years ago, Orna Cunningham was in a very dark place. Unemployed and lonely, she felt trapped in a spiral of negative thoughts. Then she found an old roommate’s paints. This article, written by Orla Cunningham, appeared in the Independent.ie on 21.02.2019. In September 2017, I moved into the third floor of a house in […]
Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Ryan Tubridy interviewed author Scarlett Curtis about her personal experiences with anxiety, depression and PTSD, inequalities around access to treatment and her generational history with psychology and psychiatry as the great-great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud Curtis spoke following publication of her book It’s Not OK To Feel Blue (and other […]
In an article for the Medical Independent, June Shannon looks at the implementation of Ireland’s first specialist perinatal mental health services model of care on the second anniversary of its publication. You can read the full Medical Independent article, published on 19/09/19, here. ‘Prior to [the] new model, the perinatal mental health service was solely concentrated […]