Category Archives: Psychiatry

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/

Psychiatry can come across as a ‘soft’ speciality, but actually there is a wealth of evidence available. The National Institute of Clinical Excellence have commissioned systematic reviews and meta-analysises, often including health economic data to recommend the most cost-effective interventions available. The guidelines cover a wealth of evidence, but can be rather generous in their […]

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http://rcpsych.ac.uk/training/curriculum2010.aspx

The Royal College of Psychiatrists manages post-graduate exams in the UK and maintains a competency-based curriculum. There is a core module covering; then a number of speciality modules. The revised competency based킠curricula for Core and Specialist킠Psychiatry Training have been킠approved by the General Medical Council in킠June 2010 to take effect from 1st August 2010.

30-60 mins

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http://www.psychiatrycpd.co.uk/freemodules.aspx

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has produced several hundred online CPD modules. Most are a combination of free text, images and occasionally audio/video that you can click your way through and answer some MCQ questions at the end in order to get a learning credit. The full set is 킣125 per year if you are […]

10-30 mins

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http://labyrinth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/mnode.asp?id=28751

Online Labyrinth [Maze] exploring medication, lifestyle and psychosocial factors in a middle-aged depressed male. Non-linear learning resource. Allows students to explore management in킠a safe manner. Some steps a bit contrived, but the skill is to see why and discuss the subtleties with other learners. Part of the University of Edinburgh Labyrinth Project

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http://brainblogger.com/

A blog site with multiple contributors discussing various (sometime controversial) issues affecting neurological and psychological disease. Despite being a blog site, they do make some effort to ensure that theire resources are by people who are reasonably sound and mainstream, or atleast are clear when they are going off the beaten track. What they say: […]

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http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/jump_page.html

This website킠 contains a large collection of illusions useful for neurology and psychology teaching. Contains illusionary effects, demonstrations, and artwork. It is also킠 quite fun and cool too!

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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_and_Cognitive_Neuroscience

This wiki-book is very thorough, well edited and referenced and should function as a useful tool for students wanting to learn more in this discipline.

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http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3140

Addiction and Neural Aging- This interactive module looks at two topics that are of킠 worldwide social, economic, ethical, and political importance í¢’‚¬’€œ í¢’‚¬Ëœaddictioní¢’‚¬’„¢ and í¢’‚¬Ëœneural ageingí¢’‚¬’„¢. It is quite text heavy, and would have benefited form some diagnrams, interactive models etc.