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Hi, everyone. Um, welcome to the psychiatry breakout session. Uh, we're really honored to have Dr Vivian Sing, who's currently working as an S T six in psychiatry and Craigavon Hospital. Um, who's going to talk to you about psychiatry as a career. So, um, take it away, Vivian. Stage two years. Uh, I Yeah, I can't see any of you here, but my name is Devin, saying I'm one of the s t six working in integrated liaison team in, um, Craig have an area hospital at the moment. Um, I might have met some of you whenever you make a referral to ourselves. So, um, we've been asked to kind of talk about how I got into psychiatry and what's good and bad about it. So, um, I went to Queens, and in kind of fourth year, the ones most of you that going to Queens will know that there's, like, psychiatry placement and really started being interested in that, um, specialty. So I made sure that whenever we are ranking for a foundation years, um, jobs and I make sure I have a job in F two in psychiatry. For those of you that you are in still a medical student. Or, um, you know, if you're planning to do foundation years Northern Ireland and this usually after two, then you would do a four month placement in psychiatry, and I was lucky that I got that placement before I apply whenever the core training program come out, then usually for applications about November time. So it's good to have your, um, placement at the beginning of your F two years or, you know, kind of what's going on, and you get two can talk to people about how you apply and what they're looking for. So yes, so for psychiatry, then you apply for the core training program, and that's three years CT 123 and then after you've done all your exams or this, UM, M R C side, Part A and B. So those are written exams, and then another one is called cast and kind of an off ski exam that you would do usually N C T free. That's all your exams done, a study by your finishing CT free, and whenever you've got all your exam, then you'll be able to apply for higher training. And there are lots of subspecialties in psychiatry. Really? Um, I'm doing I'm doing a dural training program. So instead of c c t ing in one specialty S e c t in both general adult and oh, age psychiatry And there are others of specialties like, um, Cam's, which is the trial and adolescence, um, learning, uh, intellectual disability, which you might know as learning disabilities and friends like which a lot of people find interesting, uh, psychotherapy. And there's other things that you can do to do get kind of an extra endorsement or accreditation in your C C T as well. You do one year of laser on psychiatry or addiction psychiatry. You get this extra to your C c T. So that's I'm doing integrated. Lay it on the also after a year. Then I'll be able to have an endorsement that would be good on the, um see if e. So, basically, that's how your career path would go. And for for most of the specialties, if you're not in neuro training, is a three year program, and, uh, most of the other subspecialties, like forensic and psychotherapy, you have to do both General and, um and, um and subspecialty and that will last a bit longer. Will be five years in higher training. And for me, luckily, oh, ages only Adam in like three years would be, like kind of a four year, um, training program. So that's kind of a, uh, summary of what a career path in psychiatry will be. Kind of a move on to talk about what's good about psychiatry. I mean, in order that and then definitely the Nimda training in psychiatry, I would say is, you know, thought to be better than the rest of the UK is more, um, it's oversubscribed by or in the other area is, um, usually under subscribe. And because it's quite a small facility, everyone's very supportive. Everyone knows each other. You know, your it might not always be good thing, but usually that's a good thing. You know, you're training program director quite well, and you will feel that you'll be able to, um, go to them. If you have any problems and during your training as well, then you have, especially in core training. Obviously have your opportunity of moving every six months who do different subspecialty that you'd like to do. Um, and also that they kind of look at giving you plant your study leave as well in court training every Wednesday, it's a study day for CT one and two. You get kind of teaching both in the morning and in the afternoon, so it was really good. And that happens usually every week. So I think there's plenty of opportunity for doing things like projects as well. And, um, getting your CBD in? Um, yeah, Like I said, it's quite a small specialty and everyone's really friendly. So I think that's what's good about psychiatry. And I'm sure you've heard of. I think the work life balance is, um, a little bit better than a lot of other specialties and especially especially when you get to higher training. You're on call from home usually, so it's way better. It is difficult whenever you still have to do 24 hours on call shift. That is way nicer than having to be in the hospital. But while you is, if you want to freeze, still have to do your night shift and things like that. But I would say it's not as strict, uh, and and that's kind of what I like about psychiatry. And if you want me to say something not very good about psychiatry, I think it's a different level of stress. So all the specialties will have kind of stressful, uh, situation that you will have to deal with. But in psychiatry some, it's just sometimes it's a bit different from other specialty. You might deal with a lot of difficult situation, like the risk of patient harming themselves or committing suicide. Things like that. What complete thing? Suicide and things like that. And you might. It might be something that your other colleagues might not really come across as much. And it could be the emotional stress copy, quite, um, draining in kind of different area of psychiatry. But again, like I said, the specialty is pretty well supported, and you all most people very close to the supervisor, and they will be able to, um, ask for help if they want. So, yeah, I was suggesting you would like to apply to psychiatry. Then definitely talk to someone who, um, is in it now to know that you know what they're looking for in the interview, Um, kind of read through a few papers in psychiatry's that could come up, um, in interview and ask for what the past questions were. Because they usually kind of recycle a bit of it as well. I have a list, but I am a bit I'm a nasty six now, so it might not be asked updated, But if you get to know anyone in their CT training will be good to ask them for a bit of advice as well. So yeah, that's me. So we've really only got about half a half a minute left. I didn't want to interrupt you, Uh, Doctor Singh to say Wait, wait two minutes because you're on your reflow there. Um, there aren't any further questions, but I think you have gone through, like, everything. Sort of like a medical student or training you should do if they're considering psychiatry. And you've definitely went over all the pros and cons and the different stresses that can be associated with it as well. So, um, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. And if everybody wants to move just to their next breakout room Thanks