Category: Featured
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Open Now: Family Carers Health and Wellbeing Survey 2018
Click Here to complete the Family Carers Health and Wellbeing Survey 2018 This study aims to explore the experiences of Family Carers who provide regular unpaid personal help for a friend or a family member with a long-term illness, health problem or disability. A team of researchers from the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and…
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Members Only: Annual Spring Conference 2018 Photos
The College’s annual Spring Conference took place in the Sheraton Hotel in Athlone on 12th and 13th April 2018. Members of the College can exclusively view a variety of photos of speakers, delgates, and poster presenters from the conference below.
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2018 Pre-budget submission: Priorities for Mental Health Services that must be addressed in Budget 2018
The External Affairs and Policy department of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland submitted the following to the Department of Finance in advance of the 2018 Budget. The mission of the College is to promote excellence in the practice of Psychiatry. The College, formed in 2009, is the professional and training body for psychiatrists in…
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Can AA truly cure addiction? – Dr William Flannery in the Sunday Business Post
Some addiction experts are now coming to the conclusion that Alcoholics Anonymous is a flawed enterprise. Are they right, asks Alex Meehan in the Sunday Business Post. When a New York stock- broker named Bill Wilson met a surgeon named Dr Bob Smith in 1935, they were both hopeless alcoholics and desperate to find a…
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The advocate: Pushing for best standards in psychiatry
Paul Mulholland talks to President of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Dr John Hillery about the challenges facing the College and the profession. This article was written by Paul Mulholland and was published in the The Medical Independent on 6th April 2017. In only two years’ time, the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland will…
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Annual General Meeting 2017
The College’s AGM will take place on Thursday 6th April 2017 in the Lyrath Hotel in Kilkenny. The AGM will take place at 5.30 – 6.30 pm during the Annual Spring Conference. If you have not booked a place at the Spring Conference you can do so by clicking here. If a Member has an…
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Introducing Hot Topics eModules
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…
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Women taking the lead in Psychiatry: Then and Now
On International Women’s Day we celebrate trailblazer of the past Dr Ada English, and recognise the four women leading the HSE National Clinical Programme for Mental Health By Mary Hayes Dr Ada English was a pioneering Irish psychiatrist who was deeply involved in Irish politics and medicine during the first half of the 20th century.…
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Medfest 2017 “Eros & Thanatos: Matters of life and death”
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…
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‘The Brain Dead Megaphone’ – Dr John Hillery’s first address as CPsychI President
‘The Brain Dead Megaphone’ – Post Truth Society and the Psychiatrists’ Role I write this piece in the shadow of the news of the death of Dermot Walsh. Dermot had a profound effect on any of us who interacted with him in the course of our development as Psychiatrists. We may not have always agreed…