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Do You Practice Addiction, Emergency, Forensic, Reproductive Mental Health, or Sexual Medicine Psychiatry? | Teaching Opportunity: 6th Annual Psychiatry Summer Immersion Program
*** Shared on behalf of the Psychiatry Summer Immersion Program (PSIP) ***
Dear Faculty,
We are currently looking for shadowing supervisors for the Department of Psychiatry’s 6th annual Psychiatry Summer Immersion Program, which will take place Monday, June 2 and Tuesday, June 3, 2025. The two-day program provides an opportunity for 1st Year medical students to explore the field of psychiatry as a potential career option through engagement with psychiatrists and psychiatry residents.
If you practice any of the following specialties and interested in providing shadowing opportunities for the students, please sign up from here:
Addiction Psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Reproductive Mental Health
Sexual Medicine
Shadowing sessions take place on the Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning and should last approximately 3 hours.
Locations
Site
Talks Location
Shadowing
Vancouver
Diamond Health Care Centre
within Metro Vancouver
Kelowna
Kelowna General Hospital
Kelowna
Prince George
University Hospital of Northern BC
Prince George
Remuneration
Shadowing Supervision – $106.03/session with 1 student; $129.59/session with 2 students
Ikuko Azuma Project Manager UBC Department of Psychiatry
The UBC Department of Psychiatry Administration Office at the UBC Vancouver Campus respectfully acknowledges the land on which we live, work and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-waututh).
**Shared on behalf of Dr. Irfan Khanbhai, Program Director, UBC Psychiatry Postgraduate Education Program**
March 4, 2025
CaRMS Match Day
Today was the CaRMS Match Day for the incoming class in July 2025, and we are pleased to let you know that we have done well again this year. The caliber of residents that are coming to us are very high and we are excited to welcome them all!
We have matched all of our spots across the province except for 2 positions in the Prince George Track. Hence, we will be going to the 2nd iteration process where we will interview other candidates for these 2 spots in the coming weeks.
Thanks to all of you who contributed to the very important selections process.
Warm regards,
Dr. Irfan Khanbhai MD, FRCPC Clinical Associate Professor Director, Postgraduate Education Program Interim Associate Head, PGE & CPD UBC Department of Psychiatry
I humbly acknowledge, with gratitude, that I live, work, and play as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations.
A monthly film series promoting professional and community education on issues pertaining to mental health and illness. Presented by The Cinematheque and the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry. Screenings are generally held on the third Wednesday of each month at The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC.
Witches
United Kingdom 2024 (90 min. DCP) Writer-Director: Elizabeth Sankey Wednesday, March 19, 2025 @ 7:00pm The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St)
Film Description
“This deeply personal, essayistic film by Elizabeth Sankey impressively manages to be very moving but never mawkish, raw but also surgically precise.” – Leslie Felperin, The Guardian
Grounded in her own story of being admitted to a psychiatric ward within a month of giving birth to her son, Witches writer-director Elizabeth Sankey shares her deeply personal experience of postpartum depression: “I need you to know how it feels to lose your mind completely. I want you to see what I saw; feel what I felt. While I survived, far too many have not.” With clever and unflinching prose, Sankey’s narration weaves her own story with astute pop-culture analysis of the cultural myths and symbolism surrounding witches, illustrating the terrifying and often misunderstood reality of postpartum depression, maternal OCD, and psychosis. Clips from films such as Häxan (1922), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and The Witch (2015) are intercut alongside interviews with medical professionals, academics, and mothers with lived experience of postpartum illnesses to illuminate the stigma surrounding maternal mental health and emphasize the importance of solidarity and peer support.
“Leaves you wowed, wounded, and also—most importantly—educated on a subject about which very little is known.” – David Jenkins, Little White Lies
Post-screening Discussion:
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Deirdre Ryan, clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC.
Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, the Series Director of Frames of Mind and a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry.
Want to be a regular at Frames of Mind screenings on the third Wednesday of every month? Subscribe to the email list and be the first in line for tickets!
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The VCH/PHC Regional Psychiatry Grand Rounds are now the UBC Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds and are accessible via Zoom to all Department members across the province. Grand Rounds are held the first Tuesday of every month (unless otherwise stated), from 8:30 am to 9:30 am.
The Grand Rounds are a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
UBC Department of Psychiatry Associate Professor Dr. Daniel Vigo has been named to Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 list 2025, for taking action against an epidemic.
“In June, Premier David Eby announced the appointment of Dr. Vigo as B.C.’s chief scientific advisor for psychiatry, toxic drugs and concurrent disorders, and since then, Eby has regularly referred to him as the guide for his institutionalization policy.”
Congratulations to UBC Department of Psychiatry Professor and Associate Head, Dr. Sophia Frangou, who has been awarded the European Psychiatric Association’s (EPA) Constance Pascal – Helen Boyle Prize for 2025. The €10,000 prize recognizes the Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in Working to Improve Mental Health Care in Europe.
Dr. Frangou’s research uses advanced neuroimaging and bioinformatics methods to study brain-behaviour relationships and how they are influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Her work has greatly advanced the understanding of the pathophysiology of mood and psychotic disorders and made groundbreaking contributions to the characterization of brain mechanisms of “resilience”.
Join us in congratulating Dr. Frangou on this well-deserved award, which recognizes her exceptional contribution towards better mental health care in Europe.
**Shared on behalf of Dr. Jehannine (J9) Austin, Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry, Head, UBC Department of Medical Genetics**
If you are a psychiatrist practicing or in training in British Columbia, we want your insight on how genetic testing for antidepressant prescription could be delivered to patients.
This study is funded by Genome British Columbia (BC) and will help us understand how pharmacogenomic testing (i.e., genetic testing that can provide information on how an individual may respond to certain medications) for depression can be effectively implemented in BC.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jehannine (J9) Austin Professor, UBC Department of Psychiatry Head, UBC Department of Medical Genetics
We respectfully acknowledge the land on which we live, work and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-waututh).
