MSc Psychiatry - Cardiff University

Massive congratulations to all graduates! May you continue to change the world for the better, in your professional and personal capacities as graduates of Cardiff University School of Medicine @CUmedicengage @cupgmedic @CardiffAlumni @cardiffuni

The latest edition of our newsletter is out! It is also the final newsletter with Dr Thanasi Hassoulas as Programme Director, as he has taken up the new role of Director of HIVE Innovation Hub. We would like to therefore introduce your new Programme Director, Dr Katja Umla-Runge!

Congratulations to our new committee members for 2023/2024! We're so excited to welcome our new and returning committee members!

Our Team are proud to support @WelshICS support their members CPD today. At #WITS2023 Recording will be available for members. @MScCriticalCare

We are very pleased that current full-time MSc Psychiatry student Dr Geetanjali Grover (left) met up with programme alumna & our current psych tutor Akriti Hussain, both based in India! A truly global community & network of leading healthcare professionals @cupgmedic @cupgmedic

Fantastic work, Safa'! @cupgmedic

Happy 115year Anniversary to Whitchurch Hospital Cardiff City Mental Hospital was formally opened on the 15th April 1908 So much history to this Edwardian hospital, we love to share the stories #formalopening #OnThisDay #EYAAdventure #militaryhospital #historypsychiatry

An excellent opportunity for those completing the MSc in Psychiatry too!

‘The public are with us, they feel the effects of the workforce crisis in the NHS.’ @TheDrMagazine reports on a growing sense of momentum as our second round of strike action begins. bma.org.uk/news-and-opini… #JuniorDoctorsStrike #PayRestoration

Alumna & now Clinical Lecturer on our programme, Dr Eleni Vrigkou, delivered an amazing talk at #EPA2023 on research undertaken as part of her dissertation. Eleni was also asked by the Scientific Committee to chair a session! Very well done, Eleni! @CUmedicengage @cupgmedic

We're proud to have you within our ranks, Hina!

Our alumni & students have been really busy. Two have attended #EPA2023 to present their dissertation research projects, 5 preparing to attend #RCPsych2023 & 1 off to #WPA2023. We're immensly proud to support our truly global emerging Psychiatry experts @MedicDigEd_CU @cupgmedic

Are you 13-19 yrs old? Do you know or have a child that age? Would you like to help to test online mental health resources? Find out more & fill out the form here: ncmh.info/digital-suppor… @ncmh_wales @wolfsoncentre @DECIPHerCentre @SHRNWales @TRIUMPHnetwork @ScotlandShine

To mark the final day of this year's #BrainAwarenessWeek, we'd like to share a short talk delivered by director @DrThanasiHass at the annual Cardiff Uni Science in Health event on why this will be the century of the brain #SiH @CUmedicengage youtu.be/YJV11d0pKSQ

Huge congratulations to Dr Rebecca Harding & Dr Hina Tahseen, who have also been informed they their abstracts to present at this year's RCPsych Congress have also been successful! The programme team are pleased that 5 of our students/alumni will be in attendance! @RCPsychWales

Programme Director, @DrThanasiHass, will be speaking in London this April on The Science of OCD @CUmedicengage @cupgmedic #ocdawareness

Congratulations to our (soon to be) alumni who have had their abstracts accepted and will be presenting their dissertation research projects at this year's RCPsych Annual Congress. We're very proud of Dr Aoife Journeaux, Oliver James & Dr Safa' Hasan @aoifejourneaux @RCPsychWales

Congratulations @aoifejourneaux, we're very proud that you will be presenting your excellent MSc Psychiatry dissertation research at the upcoming RCPsych Congress! @RCPsychWales @rcpsych

As it's #BrainAwarenessWeek, we've made public one of our e-learning resources on the human brain that is used by our year 1 & 2 medical students, who try to make sense of the most complex structure in the known universe: xerte.cardiff.ac.uk/play_16170 @DrThanasiHass @MedicDigEd_CU