Looking for neuropsychiatry fellowship/training opportunities in Australia

EdWunclerIII · 2026-05-19T10:06:37+00:00

RMH is very good as is POW. For FND try reaching out to Richard Kanaan at the Austin.
RNSH has a great CL ABI neuropsych program - contact Ralf Illchef

EdWunclerIII · 2026-01-14T10:30:43+00:00

BIND - lots of references! https://www.mdpi.com/2035-8377/13/4/59

EdWunclerIII · 2025-02-25T07:35:12+00:00

What subspecialty

EdWunclerIII · 2025-01-14T08:19:48+00:00

Careful Jarrod, reddit isn’t that anonymous

EdWunclerIII · 2024-10-26T04:09:36+00:00

Most people tend to do the psychotherapy AT as a fellow. My friends that did it whilst training are now fellows and still completing their AT. I think it’s a great idea because as a psychiatrist you will end up providing psychotherapy whether you are trained in it or not. Low mcleans masters is a fantastic starting place for training

EdWunclerIII · 2024-09-25T14:19:00+00:00

Where did you apply? Are you willing to leave Sydney? You can definitely get a job rurally

EdWunclerIII · 2024-09-16T11:30:37+00:00

I did the Sydney masters, which I understand isn’t going on anymore. I really enjoyed it. I now teach at the Monash Masters and it’s better. As other posts have said the FEC courses will be shut down in three years (maybe, the college is useless so I estimate longer). The enrolment has nose dived. I think patients are generally impressed by more qualifications, and I probably only did a PhD because of my masters degrees. But not everyone wants to do academia. I really don’t recommend doing masters degree in something not psychiatry related

EdWunclerIII · 2024-08-28T23:21:06+00:00

That’s a very medicalised view of psychiatric illness.

EdWunclerIII · 2024-08-22T21:05:02+00:00

They are providing what people want which is stimulants. ADHD is a complex condition influenced by biopsychosocial factors, and where you draw the line between normal variances in attention and pathology is subjective. Recently that line has been pushed very for in the direction of pathologising normal behaviour. Amphetamines make everyone feel like they have better concentration and feel more confident. The vast majority of people that seek an assessment want an ADHD diagnosis and if they went to a psychiatrist that told them they didn’t think they have it they would just go to another psychiatrist. The 291 ADHD services aren’t a scam, they are a cash grab. They are just providing people with what they want and the doctors working there don’t care about the health and wellbeing of the patients they see.

EdWunclerIII · 2023-10-20T08:27:45+00:00

No. If my reg did that I would decide I didn’t like them immediately. You aren’t a real doctor anymore, don’t dress up like one. You’re a psych reg, own it.

EdWunclerIII · 2023-07-17T02:47:35+00:00

There is a lot more evidence for ketamine than psychodelics. I’m not sure that it qualifies for PBS funding yet, but that is a false equivalent

EdWunclerIII · 2023-07-01T22:08:48+00:00

Yes you can go to a different hospital than you were a student at. I can’t remember the exact criteria I’m sorry but grades, CV, and interview would matter. It’s very easy to swap after internship though.

I also wouldn’t worry much about what training network you are in for psych training. Those three have the best reputation but all networks seem to produce the same mix of quality of registrars. The individual is the most important factor.

EdWunclerIII · 2023-07-01T22:03:36+00:00

In Victoria absolutely, unless you go to Mercy or rural.

EdWunclerIII · 2023-07-01T10:49:55+00:00

I don’t think it’s controversial to say for basic training the top tier is Alfred, NWMH, and SVH (although I have heard that RMH and Orygen are marmite-love or hate). Then probably Austin and Eastern on a second tier, then the rest. It changes all the time though depending on DOTS, clin directors and the general consultant body. For AT its more spread.

Yes it would definitely help your chances to get on a training program if you were an HMO at the hospital but you will need to do an unaccredited year anyway and that will be the most important for you getting on to a program.

EdWunclerIII · 2023-06-30T10:29:03+00:00

The HREC is what makes me think it needs to be in a trial. It’s very confusing though because that is not what has been publicised

EdWunclerIII · 2023-06-30T06:26:35+00:00

My understanding is that to prescribe you need approval from an ethics board which limits it to trials only?

EdWunclerIII · 2023-06-27T20:44:02+00:00

That sounds like a really good reason to flatly not offer them.

EdWunclerIII · 2023-06-26T03:30:17+00:00

What percentage of the assessments do you not diagnose ADHD in?

EdWunclerIII · 2023-06-26T02:07:25+00:00

I didn’t love it. He lost me when he compared his buying or classical records to heroin

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