The Thought Broadcast

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message In this two-part episode, the Thought Broadcast interviews the RANZCP’s Appointed Trainee Board Director, Dr Ava Carter. Dr Carter is dual qualified in dentistry and medicine, and is currently the consultation liaison advanced trainee and senior psychiatric registrar at Canberra Health Services in the Australian Capital Territory. She’s been involved wi...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message In this two-part episode, the Thought Broadcast interviews the RANZCP’s Appointed Trainee Board Director, Dr Ava Carter. Dr Carter is dual qualified in dentistry and medicine, and is currently the consultation liaison advanced trainee and senior psychiatric registrar at Canberra Health Services in the Australian Capital Territory. She’s been involved wi...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message The 2023 RANZCP Congress was held in Perth in May this year, on the theme New Horizons, Connected Futures. With almost 1800 delegates in Perth and over 450 online, it was the biggest Congress yet! Ashna Basu and Andrew Amos chatted to delegates with a roving mic, covering their stories, thoughts on the talks, and even the experience of bringing a child...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message The RANZCP has recently stopped conducting OSCE examinations in the hope of diversifying the examination and assessment pathway. In this two part episode, recorded at the RANCZP 2023 annual congress in Perth, Dr Nick O’Connor, RANZCP Board Director and head of the RANZCP Education Committee, discusses these changes with Australasian Psychiatry’s Trainee...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message The RANZCP has recently stopped conducting OSCE examinations in the hope of diversifying the examination and assessment pathway. In this two part episode, recorded at the RANCZP 2023 annual congress in Perth, Dr Nick O’Connor, RANZCP Board Director and head of the RANZCP Education Committee, discusses these changes with Australasian Psychiatry’s Trainee...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message In this episode, we welcome and introduce Australasian Psychiatry’s two new Associate Trainee Editors for 2023 - Dr Ashna Basu and Dr Ed Miller. Ashna is a stage two trainee working in Sydney. Ed is a stage two trainee originally from Adelaide but now living in Auckland. Ashna and Ed discuss their backgrounds, what the interview and appointment process...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message The second instalment from Dr Zoe Kristensen and Dr Theo McTigue shifts focus from training to treatment of trans and non-binary people. Treatment being discussed in the broadest sense of the word. With the authority of lived experience, Zoe and Theo offer a critique of psychiatry’s historical mistreatment of gender diversity, placing this in the socioc...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message Dr Zoe Kristensen and Dr Theo McTigue are pioneers. As trans and non-binary people respectively, they are living, working, and training openly in psychiatry. In years gone by, and indeed even now, there are risks associated with this visibility. Zoe and Theo explore these in depth; being pathologized, excluded, and othered. They also speak to signals of...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message  Dr Pramudie Gunaratne is a newly appointed director of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP); the first ever from the trainee cohort. Representative of a new era in RANZCP governance, Pramudie has gone straight to work engaging stakeholders across the training region. Canvassing this trainee group has identified a defic...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message A year since first release, The Thought Broadcast has discussed the Scholarly Project in detail. The aim of demystifying this learning goal has been perused, and perhaps achieved. This round table discussion revisits the lessons learned from our previous episodes on the Scholarly Project. Serving both as summary for regular listeners and an introduction...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message Starting her family in Europe, Dr Sonja Cabarkapa is taking an international approach to her psychiatry training. This requires a positive mindset and determination, both of which she employed when completing her scholarly project on profiling absconders from public and private wards in Australia. While Sonja has a global attitude to life and training,...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message Further exploring the fallout of the aborted November 2021 Audio-Visual Objective Structured Clinical Examination (AVOSCE), this episode of The Thought Broadcast considers the trainee perspective. The panel speaks to Dr Skye Kinder, a strong trainee advocate and former member of the Trainee Representative Committee (TRC). Dr Kinder discusses the impact...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message Following a series of podcasts exploring trainees’ experiences of the Scholarly Project assessment task, the latest episode of The Thought Broadcast shifts focus to the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). In response to the imbroglio arising from the failed delivery of the November 2021 audiovisual OSCE, we speak to Dr Nick O’Connor – RANZ...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message Dr Alisha Thomson takes trainee welfare personally. Her journey from psychiatry trainee, to patient, to a career in medical administration, is the backdrop to her scholarly project looking at after-hours workflow and its impact on registrar well-being. Listen to Alisha speak passionately about her drive to build healthy and effective workplaces in Austr...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message In this episode, guest Dr Malcolm Forbes tells the story of his scholarly project on neuroimaging in first episode psychosis (1, 2) and provides a how to guide on the systematic review process (3). With its origins in his former life as a general medical registrar, Malcolm’s project challenged conventional wisdom and shows trainees that their work can h...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message This episode is a continuation of episode two Start Early, the interview with chair of the Scholarly Project Subcommittee Assoc. Professor Jeremy Couper. In this extended discussion, Jeremy covers the exemption pathway in greater depth. Then, along with panel member Andrew Amos, Jeremy offers guidance around the publication cycle and identifies ways tha...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message The second episode of the series welcomes Assoc. Professor Jeremy Couper, chair of the Scholarly Project Subcommittee, to provide trainees with valuable insights into the make-up of successful projects. Jeremy offers an open discussion on the expectations of the college, common trainee pitfalls, and tips for completing and submitting work of publishable...

Enjoying the podcast? Send us a text message The first episode of this trainee generated podcast series explores the journey of an original research project from real-world clinical observation through to publication. Focussing on the scholarly project of podcast co-creator and Associate Trainee Editor of Australasian Psychiatry Dr Bryan Bui(1), the conversation demonstrates how trainees can find...