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December 12th, 2008

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Newest Items...

Department

Memo from Dr. Ari Zaretsky, Postgrad Director - Dept. Of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
Six Month Final Rotation Evaluation
Mohammad Alsuwaidan, PGY-4 and Roger McIntyre, Head of the Mood Disorders Pyschopharmacology Unit (MDPU) at UHN:
"MDPU Podcast Episode 10: Interferon: A New Psychiatric Paradigm"
REMINDER: Coming up on Tuesday!
Memo from Dr. Donald Wasylenki, Chair - Dept. Of Psychiatry - Univ. of Toronto:
Chair's Holiday Reception
(Event: December 16, 2008)

Funding

Council of Education Deans, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Toronto:
Education Development Fund - Applications are Open

Newest Course and Event Announcements

Hospital for Sick Children:
Psychiatry Rounds: “Socio-Emotional Systems and Autism Spectrum Disorders: What is the connection?”
Presented by Stephanie Ameis, MSc, Psychiatry Resident, Dept of Psychiatry, SickKids Hospital
(Event: December 18, 2008)
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health:
Grand Rounds: "The Pain of Paternity: The Couvade Syndrome"
Presented by Dr. Nisha Ravindran, Resident in Psychiatry, University of Toronto
(Event: December 19, 2008)
Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology:
Existential Anxiety, Making Meaning and Negotiating Intersubjective Conflict
Presented by Dr. Mal Slavin:
(Event: February 21, 2009)

Courses and Events

CME Courses 2008

No listing(s) at this time.

CME Courses 2009

Intermediate Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IIPT), CAMH and Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Education & Professional Development, Univ. of Toronto, (Jan. 29-June 25)
Intermediate Cognitive Therapy Institute, CAMH and Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Education & Professional Development, Univ. of Toronto, (Apr. 2-4)

Other Courses and Events 2008

Psychiatry Rounds, Hospital for Sick Children, (Dec. 18)
Grand Rounds, CAMH, (Dec. 19)

Other Courses and Events 2009

Reflections on Privacy, Reverie and the Termination Process in Psychoanalysis, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, (Jan. 17)
Existential Anxiety, Making Meaning and Negotiating Intersubjective Conflict, Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology, (Feb. 21)
19th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, (Mar. 8-10)
Emotion Focused Therapy Institute, York University Psychotherapy Research Center, (Summer & Fall)

Reminders

Education
Research
Awards
Funding
Opportunities
CME Courses
Other Courses and Events:
Dec-08 | Jan-09 | Feb-09 | Mar-09

Newest Items...

Departmental

M E M O:

To:

All Faculty

From:

Dr. Ari Zaretsky, MD, Postgraduate Director, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Re:

Six Month Final Rotation Evaluation

Dear Colleague,

It is now time for you to complete the 6 month final rotation evaluation on the U of T POWER system. Please recognize that one of the Standards of Accreditation is that evaluation MUST be TIMELY, FACE-TO-FACE and must INVOLVE SOME NON-PHYSICIANS in order to accurately and comprehensively assess non-Medical Expert role functioning.

Please ensure that you complete the ITER on your resident this month. Late completion of an ITER (beyond 1 week after the end of a rotation) violates a Standard of Accreditation.

After conferring with other staff involved in your resident supervisee’s educational experience, please ALSO review your own rotation-specific goals and objectives, which are written in the “CanMEDS roles” format. Please set aside adequate time to meet with your resident-face-to-face in order to provide feedback about performance in the rotation. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE NOW ARE USING MORE SPECIFIC, BEHAVIOURALLY ANCHORED ITERS THAT ARE CLOSELY ALIGNED WITH THE NEW GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ROTATION OR PSYCHOTHERAPY MODALITY.

Residents are hungry for feedback about how they can improve their performance. Honest, specific feedback should be viewed as a gift that each resident has earned.

Please follow this step-by-step advice about how you can significantly enhance the quality of your evaluative feedback:

1)      Email or phone the resident and ask them to prepare in advance for the meeting by reviewing the Rotation Specific Goals and Objectives. Ask the resident to write down areas of relative strength and weakness.
2)      Have the Goals and Objectives form with you in order to refer to during your meeting with the resident.
3)      Begin the meeting by asking the resident how they perceived their performance during the rotation. (“How do YOU think YOU did?”). Ask the resident to focus on relative strengths and then on relative weaknesses.
4)      Provide feedback on your resident’s self-assessment first (was it
accurate?)
5)      Make your feedback about actual resident performance constructive but specific. Try to address all the CanMEDS roles.
6)      Do not use stock phrases like: “You are one of top 10 residents that I have ever supervised” or “you just need to read a bit more”. Instead, tell the resident exactly why his/her performance leads you to conclude that she/he is “one of the top 10”. Tell the resident exactly why and where you think his/her knowledge base is insufficient and provide specific recommendations about what to read in order to make up for this knowledge gap.
7)      Ask for resident feedback about your feedback: “What’s your reaction to what I’m telling you today?”
8)      Provide concrete suggestions for how to improve performance-the more specific the better. Writing it down on paper is best of all (and this is actually required for resident performance that is below “3” on the POWER evaluation form).

If you have any other suggestions about how we, as postgraduate educators and teachers can improve the process of giving feedback to our residents, I would very much to hear from you.

Educationally Yours,

Ari Zaretsky, MD, FRCP(C)
Postgraduate Director, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

M E M O:

To:

All Faculty Members, Residents and Fellows, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

From:

Mohammad Alsuwaidan, PGY-4 and Roger McIntyre, Head of the Mood Disorders Pyschopharmacology Unit (MDPU) at UHN

Re:

MDPU Podcast Episode 10: Interferon: A New Psychiatric Paradigm

Dear Colleagues,

The 10th episode of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit (MDPU) podcast is now available. In this exciting episode with our special guest Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam entitled Interferon: A New Psychiatric Paradigm. In this episode we discuss "Interferon alpha therapy for hepatitis C, it's relationship to depression and possibly as a proof-of-concept for the relationship of inflammation and mood disorders."
Here is the information:
You may subscribe to the podcast through the iTunes music store podcast directory. You will need the iTunes client which is available as a free download at http://www.itunes.com/ You can either search for the podcast by entering the terms MDPU or Psychiatry in the search box of the podcastdirectory of the iTunes music store or follow this link http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=265332244

You may visit the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit website at: http://www.mdpu.ca/ and follow the link that says "Podcast" and then simply follow the instructions.

You may visit the source website at: http://web.mac.com/mohammad.alsuwaidan/MDPU/Podcast/
Podcast.html and listen to the podcast online or subscribe to it. Quicktime and/or iTunes will be required be required available at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ and http://www.itunes.com/ respectively

Mohammad Alsuwaidan, MD
Resident in Psychiatry

Dr. Donald Wasylenki

Invites you to

the Department of Psychiatry
Chair's Holiday Reception

View photos from last year's event
Tuesday, December 16th, from 5-8 pm
at the Univ. of Toronto - Faculty Club
located at 41 Willcocks Street

This event is open to all Psychiatry Faculty,
Fellows and Residents in celebration of the Festive Season.

Funding

Education Development Fund
Applications are Open

Hello,
The Education Development Fund Committee supported by the Council of Education Deans, is now accepting applications for the 2009 round of the EDF. The application process is online at the following website: http://admin.med.utoronto.ca/edf/
The deadline for applications is January 23, 2009.

The Education Development Fund supports curriculum development across the Faculty of Medicine; often it is used to support a pilot project or a new innovation in learning. Faculty educators and teachers in basic, clinical, rehabilitation and community health sciences are eligible to apply. There is an expectation of matched funding; usually this is supported by the faculty members' department, however in the past, matched funding has also been secured by hospital funds or other granting agencies. Further information and funding parameters are available on the Council of Education Dean's website here: http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/about/governance/council/edf.htm

The Centre for Faculty Development is offering a workshop entitled "Dissemination of an Educational Innovation" which will be held on Monday, January 12, 2009 from 1-4pm at the CFD offices, 2 Queen Street East, Suite 910. This workshop, led by Dr. Glen Bandiera is designed to help prepare faculty members to submit strong, scholarly Education Development Fund proposals. For more information and/or registration, please go to the CFD Website at: http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/programs/register2009.html

The Vice-Deans, Education would greatly appreciate your help in disseminating this information with your colleagues and in encouraging and supporting their applications to the fund.
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Morag Paton
Administrative Coordinator, Council of Education Deans
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Medical Sciences Building, Room 2344
Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.946.8067

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Research

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Funding

Education Development Fund
Applications are Open

Hello,
The Education Development Fund Committee supported by the Council of Education Deans, is now accepting applications for the 2009 round of the EDF. The application process is online at the following website: http://admin.med.utoronto.ca/edf/
The deadline for applications is January 23, 2009.

The Education Development Fund supports curriculum development across the Faculty of Medicine; often it is used to support a pilot project or a new innovation in learning. Faculty educators and teachers in basic, clinical, rehabilitation and community health sciences are eligible to apply. There is an expectation of matched funding; usually this is supported by the faculty members' department, however in the past, matched funding has also been secured by hospital funds or other granting agencies. Further information and funding parameters are available on the Council of Education Dean's website here: http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/about/governance/council/edf.htm

The Centre for Faculty Development is offering a workshop entitled "Dissemination of an Educational Innovation" which will be held on Monday, January 12, 2009 from 1-4pm at the CFD offices, 2 Queen Street East, Suite 910. This workshop, led by Dr. Glen Bandiera is designed to help prepare faculty members to submit strong, scholarly Education Development Fund proposals. For more information and/or registration, please go to the CFD Website at: http://www.cfd.med.utoronto.ca/programs/register2009.html

The Vice-Deans, Education would greatly appreciate your help in disseminating this information with your colleagues and in encouraging and supporting their applications to the fund.
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Morag Paton
Administrative Coordinator, Council of Education Deans
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Medical Sciences Building, Room 2344
Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.946.8067

Opportunities

The Department of Psychiatry at Women’s College Hospital is offering a one year funded fellowship to MD or PhD candidates seeking advanced training in HIV and women’s mental health.

Applicants must have successfully completed their RCPSC psychiatry specialty examinations and be a member in good standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario by the date of commencement of the fellowship. PhD candidates must have completed the requirements of their PhD program prior to starting the fellowship.

The fellowship will include a mix of clinical and academic activities. The specific time allocation is negotiable, but ordinarily, fellows spend at least 75% of their time in scholarly pursuits. Clinical work will focus on women’s mental health and may be spent with any one of the four existing programs in the Department of Psychiatry: General Psychiatry, Mental Health in Medicine, Reproductive Life Stages, or Trauma Therapy. Alternatively, the successful applicant may wish to work jointly between two programs. The academic component of the fellowship will include the design and completion of a research or other scholarly project suitable for publication. Topics for this project should be directly related to the aforementioned clinical themes of the department. Suitable research areas may include: fertility and family planning in persons infected with HIV, HIV and trauma in women, or pregnant women with HIV and mood or anxiety symptoms. Other potential topics can be considered and should be negotiated directly with the supervisor.

Interested candidates may apply for one year of funding beginning July 1, 2009 or another mutually agreed upon date. Internal funding will be subject to the rules of the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry fellowship program. (Please see: http://www.utpsychiatry.ca/ Go to ‘Education’ and scroll down to ‘fellowship program’ for information regarding the program.)

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and CV by January 1, 2009 to:
Pam Kavanagh
Department of Psychiatry, Women’s College Hospital
76 Grenville Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1B2
Email: pam.kavanagh@wchospital.ca or Tel : 416-323-6400 Ext. 4381.

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TAPSCOTT CHAIR IN SCHIZOPHRENIA STUDIES
AND HEAD, SCHIZOPHRENIA PROGRAM

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto is conducting a search for the joint position of Tapscott Chair in Schizophrenia Studies and Head of the Schizophrenia Program. The position is situated at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto has one of the largest concentrations of faculty and students in the mental health field in the world. Academic activities are organized into 14 priority programs including schizophrenia (http://www.utpsychiatry.ca). The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is Canada's leading addictions and mental health facility, fully affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and designated as a centre of excellence by the World Health Organization (http://www.camh.net). It enjoys a high profile international reputation and plays a key role in influencing health policy at all levels of government.

The successful candidate will be a productive clinician-scientist. He/she will be responsible for developing a strong interdisciplinary university program in schizophrenia research (basic, clinical and population) and education with a centre of excellence at CAMH. Overall success will be measured by the evolution of a stimulating academic program, characterized by recruitment and retention of productive faculty members, external funding and peer-reviewed publications and the active participation of students and fellows. The successful candidate will be a senior clinician-scientist with a strong record of independent scholarship in the schizophrenia field and with evidence of success in providing leadership and educating and mentoring students and junior faculty members. He/she will be eligible for an academic appointment at the Professor or Associate Professor level.

Please reply with a letter of interest and current curriculum vitae to: Dr. Donald A. Wasylenki, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, CAMH-College Site, 250 College Street, Suite 835, Toronto, ON CANADA M5T 1R8.

The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2009.

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community. The University especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.

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