This Week in Psychiatry  |  University Rounds  |   Clinical Academic Rounds
                               Courses    |   2011-2012 Continuing Education Activities                                

Director: Dr. Heather Milliken

Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry has earned national and international recognition as a provider of excellent quality, innovative, continuing education programs and services. Our Faculty members have been recognized as experts in their field and lecture frequently throughout the Atlantic provinces, nationally, and internationally. Several have won prestigious awards for their educational work. The overall goal of the Department of Psychiatry is to provide leadership in mental health education for psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, family physicians, and the community with the ultimate aim of promoting the highest standards of mental health care.

The Department of Psychiatry and its affiliated teaching hospitals offer a diversified continuing education program. All regularly occurring educational activities including university rounds, clinical academic rounds, journal clubs, and psychotherapy case conferences have been accredited as group learning activities as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Annual educational events include the Annual Atlantic Canada Psychosis Conference, The Nova Scotia Hospital Academic Day, and the Department of Psychiatry Research Day. As part of its initiative to promote early detection and intervention for psychotic disorders, The Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program/Research and Community Education Group has developed a number of highly successful community education programs, examples of which include the Early Psychosis Mentorship Program, the Family Education Program, and workshops for family physicians and school personnel.

The Department promotes its weekly continuing education activities via "This Week In Psychiatry". The advertisement provides the dates, times, topics, and locations of the various activities.

For further information, please contact:

Ms. Carrie Wipp, Education Coordinator
8th floor, Abbie J. Lane Memorial Building
Phone: (902) 473-5664
Fax: (902) 473-4545
E-mail: carrie.wipp@cdha.nshealth.ca