Welcome to Medicine for Psychiatrists

Psychiatrists are not only doctors, they are medical specialists. Many psychiatrists want to maintain their confidence in contemporary medical knowledge and skills. Physical health and mental health are inextricably linked, with poor health status in either domain increasing the risk of illness in the other. Many psychiatric interventions are associated with adverse physical health consequences that psychiatrists should be able to recognize and manage.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 5TH RANZCP CPD ENDORSED MEDICINE FOR PSYCHIATRISTS CONFERENCE  ON

20 & 21 AUGUST 2O2O AT OUR FANTASTIC VENUE IN FIJI

The 2020 conference will continue to focus on the most pertinent medical aspects and common comorbidities of psychiatric conditions.  The presenters are expert clinicians and the content of the conference is clinically focused to enhance up to date clinical knowledge and skills. The 2020 conference has two more presentations than in 2018 with three new topics of Sleep Medicine, Radiology for the Psychiatrist as well as Falls, Frailty and Medication Rationalization in the Elderly.

This event has been endorsed by the RANZCP as CPD activity code: ED000046, and each hour of participation can be claimed under Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 4.1).
 

The RANZCP report “Keeping Body and Mind Together: Improving the physical health and life expectancy of people with serious mental illness” published in 2015 states that to “influence clinical practice to effect better health outcomes for people with a mental illness... from the perspective of the RANZCP, addressing this important challenge begins with the recognition and acknowledgement by all psychiatrists that a key part of their role is to help their patients manage their physical health” and “as medical doctors, psychiatrists have a clear responsibility to help patients to manage their physical health. In the RANZCP’s view, this is a core part of being a psychiatrist.”

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