Events
Medfest 2017 returns to focus on Matters of Life and Death The first in a series of university events exploring the need to make doctors, patients, and the general public more comfortable about discussing death. Medfest, the medically themed one night film festival exploring medicine and psychiatry, will kick off with its first Irish event […]
The recent annual College of Psychiatrists of Ireland (CPsychI) NCHD conference was a great success with a high turnout of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors. The Conference, hosted in the Hilton Hotel, Kilmainham Dublin on 17th February, was organised by the Trainee Committee, a dedicated working group within the College. Based on the theme “The Science of Psychiatry” […]
The WPA Inter Zonal Congress will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 3 to 6 May 2017 and the College encourages its members to attend this important event. The theme of this years Congree is ‘Changing Society, Changing Psychiatry and Changing Self’. This international event aims to explore concepts, controversies and consequences of Psychiatry’s responsibility and […]
Keynote Speakers: Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Professor Fergus Shanahan and Professor James V. Lucey Conference organisers: Dr. Melissa Dixon (Oxford), Dr. Elizabeth Barrett (UCD) Conference Coordinator: Victoria Sewell (UCD) When: 09.30-17.00, 10th March, 2017 Where: DLR LexIcon Library, Haigh Terrace, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 5 External CPD credits This one-day programme […]
A suite of Hot Topics CPD Approved eModules (pilot) is now open to members of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. Speakers at the popular Hot Topics meetings have kindly allowed their presentations to be recorded and packaged into CPD approved eModules. We welcome Member feedback on the eModules. View the full list of Hot Topics eModules […]
After a fantastic night in the Sugar Club in Dublin, Swati Vara and Catherine Eves, medical students from Queen’s University Belfast took home the top prize at the Annual Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition hosted by the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland (CPsychI). They faced tough competition from RCSI whose focus on mental health issues as a consequence […]
Supported by the EPA (European Psychiatric Association), the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland recently hosted a CME course looking at the impact of trauma, sexual violence, dissociation and psychosis as well as treatment provisions. Combining presentations by six key experts from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Croatia with roundtable discussions the fully subscribed event provided delegates […]
The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland’s annual Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition is taking place on 23rd of November at 6.30pm in the Sugar Club in Dublin. This Public Speaking Competition was first held in 1999 as part of the Changing Minds Campaign of the College, addressing the stigma associated with mental health problems. […]