Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode is part of the PsychEd Book Club, a forum where we discuss books of interest to psychiatry learners from a variety of disciplines. We invite you to read along with us and contribute to our discussion. This short introductory episode gives you a heads-up about our upcoming book club on How Can I Help? A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist by David Goldbloom and Pier Bryden. Stay tuned for a longer epi...
May 31, 2026•9 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of extrapyramidal symptoms. Hosts: Jo Kikukawa (MS2) Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY1) Sena Gok (Scientist) Audio Editing: Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY1) References: Dayalu, P., & Chou, K. L. (2008). Antipsychotic-induced extrapyramidal symptoms and their management. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 9(9), 1451–1462. https://doi.org/10.1517/14656566.9.9.1451 Drake, R. E., & Ehrlich, J...
May 16, 2026•13 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers interventional psychiatry with Dr. Sean Nestor, an interventional psychiatrist and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto, where he serves as Assistant Director of the Psychiatry Program and oversees the Clinician Researcher Track (CResT) residency within the Department of Psychiatry. His research program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre focuses on advancing the clinical applic...
May 01, 2026•1 hr
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Hosts: Eric Yu (MS3) Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Dr. Shaoyuan Wang (PGY5) Audio Editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) References : 1. Park, J., Tan, J., Krzeminski, S., Hazeghazam, M., Bandlamuri, M., & Carlson, R. W. (2017). Malignant catatonia warrants early psychiatric‐critical care collaborative management: two cases and literature review. Cas...
Apr 15, 2026•8 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers Working with Borderline Personality Disorder in the Emergency Department with Dr. Bruce Fage, a psychiatrist in Toronto working in emergency and acute care psychiatry, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. His interests include the relational and systems issues that shape psychiatric care in crisis settings. He is also a former founding member of PsychEd! The learning obje...
Apr 01, 2026•45 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of serotonin syndrome. Hosts: Eric Yu (MS3) Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Dr. Shaoyuan Wang (PGY5) Audio Editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) References : 1. Boyer, E. W. (2024). Serotonin syndrome (serotonin toxicity). In UpToDate. 2. Buckley, N. A., Dawson, A. H., & Isbister, G. K. (2014). Serotonin syndrome. Bmj, 348. 3. Dunkley, E. J. C., Isbister, G. K., Sibbritt, D., Dawson, A...
Apr 01, 2026•8 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This is our second book club episode centered around the novel Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel, MD. This book is a part memoir / part manifesto written by one of our generation’s most important leaders in neuroscience and psychiatry, Dr. Thomas Insel. Dr. Insel served as the director of the NIMH for 13 years from 2002-2015. Healing is replete with his reflections on person...
Feb 28, 2026•52 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers harm reduction principles. Hosts : Dr. Andrew Nguyen, Dr. Zakia Hussain, and Shelly Palchik Audio editing: Dr. Kate Braithwaite Episode Evaluation: Dr. Angad Singh Resources : Chapter 4: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders. In Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences Serving Clients Who Use Substances: A guide for community workers A Harm Reduction Approach (...
Feb 28, 2026•7 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers psychiatry and ethics in the Ontario context with Dr. Suze Berkhout, a clinician investigator and practicing psychiatrist working in acute inpatient psychiatry at University Health Network. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the department of psychiatry and affiliate faculty with the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science and Technology. Her research...
Jan 31, 2026•59 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of sleep hygiene. Hosts : Jo Kikukawa (MS2) and Grant Yao (MS4) Audio editing: Grant Yao Timestamps: (0:33) - Background (2:07) - Core principles and strategies (5:37) - Counselling on sleep (6:18) - When to get help with sleep (7:29) - Summary References : Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Sleep disorders . CAMH. Harvard Health Publishing. Sleep hygiene: Simple practi...
Jan 15, 2026•9 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers Types of Substances Hosts: Sara Abrahamson, Shaoyuan Wang and Kate Braithwaite. Audio Editing: Kate Braithwaite References: American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5, text revision (DSM-5-TR). 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association Publishing; 2022. CAMH. (2013). Inhalants. Inhalants | CAMH CAMH. (2010). Cocaine a...
Dec 31, 2025•14 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers the psychiatric case presentation with Dr. Justin Delwo, a staff psychiatrist at Toronto Western Hospital where he works in the emergency department and urgent care settings. The learning objectives for this episode are as follows: What is the goal of a psychiatric case presentation? What are some ground rules for a case presentation? What are the key sections of a case presentation and what...
Dec 01, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers how to take a substance use history Hosts : Dr. Andrew Nguyen, Dr. Zakia Hussain, Jo Kikukawa, and Dr. Kate Braithwaite. Audio editing: Dr. Kate Braithwaite Resources : Chapter 4: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders. In Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences Meta:Phi Resource Library Ten Domains of De-escalation to Prevent Behavioural Emergencies (from Albe...
Nov 15, 2025•14 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers Functional Neurological Disorder with Dr. Patricia Rosebush. Dr. Rosebush is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. She is the distinguished author of numerous articles on clinical neuroscience, including considerable work on mitochondrial disorders in mental illness and over 30 papers on catatonia, and practices consultation-liais...
Oct 31, 2025•34 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers metabolic monitoring for patients on antipsychotic medications. Hosts : Grant Yao (MS4) and Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Audio editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Timestamps: (0:21) - Background (2:22) - Monitoring for metabolic side effects (6:16) - Managing metabolic side effects (9:50) - Summary References : Agarwal, S. M., Stogios, N., Faulkner, G. E., & Hahn, M. (2023). Pharmacological interv...
Oct 20, 2025•12 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode is part of the PsychEd Book Club, a forum where we discuss books of interest to psychiatry learners from a variety of disciplines. We invite you to read along with us and contribute to our discussion. This short introductory episode gives you a heads-up about our upcoming book club on Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel. Stay tuned for a longer episode in a few mo...
Oct 10, 2025•8 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers goals of care conversations. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Tavis Apramian, a clinician-investigator in the Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto and scientist in the Office of Education Scholarship. He works as a palliative care physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and at Kensington Hospice. His largely qualitative program of research is focused...
Sep 30, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of electroconvulsive therapy. Hosts: Ravi Bhindi (CC3), Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Audio Editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Show Notes: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Time Stamps: (0:36) - What is ECT? (2:18) - Indications and efficacy (4:35) - Treatment course (4:32) - Combination treatment (6:33) - Medications to discontinue (8:16) - Contraindications (9:40) - Side effects (11:52) - Proc...
Sep 16, 2025•18 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers exercise as a treatment for depression. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Nicholas Fabiano, a third-year psychiatry resident at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the overlap between mental and physical health, particularly lifestyle measures that can be used to improve mental health, including exercise, diet, and sleep. The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:...
Sep 01, 2025•46 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the mental status exam. Hosts : Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY1) and Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Audio editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Episode Evaluation: Shelly Palchik (MS4) Timestamps: (0:20) Basics of the mental status exam (2:05) Appearance (4:00) Behaviour (5:00) Cooperation (6:20) Speech (7:18) Emotions (9:12) Perception (10:15) Thought process (12:35) Thought content (13:28) Insight (14:10) J...
Sep 01, 2025•17 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers South Asian mental health with Dr. Farooq Naeem, a senior scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and a psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Naeem pioneered techniques for culturally adapting CBT. These techniques have been used to adapt CBT in South Asia, North Africa, Middle...
Aug 01, 2025•53 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode is about an approach to patients with psychotic symptoms. Hosts : Ravi Bhindi (CC3), Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Audio editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Show notes: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Infographic : Dr. Kate Braithwaite References : Griswold, K. S., Del Regno, P. A., & Berger, R. C. (2015). Recognition and differential diagnosis of psychosis in primary care. American family physician , 91 (12...
Jul 25, 2025•21 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers catatonia with Dr. Patricia Rosebush. Dr. Rosebush is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. She is the distinguished author of numerous articles on clinical neuroscience, including considerable work on mitochondrial disorders in mental illness and over 30 papers on catatonia, and practices consultation-liaison psychiatry at St. Jo...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 1
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode is about counselling patients on antidepressant medications. Hosts: Matthew Cho and Angad Singh Audio editing: Angad Singh Time stamps: (02:03) Steps to antidepressant counselling (07:31) Frequently asked questions about antidepressants Related episodes: PsychEd Episode 1: Diagnosis of Depression with Dr. Ilana Shawn PsychEd Episode 2: Treatment of Depression with Dr. Sidney Kennedy PsychEd E...
May 01, 2025•16 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This is our inaugural book club episode centred around the book Mind Fixers by Anne Harrington. Mind Fixers is by the Harvard historian Anne Harrington, and came out from Norton in 2022. It reframes the “biological turn” in later twentieth century psychiatry with a history of the discipline from the later nineteenth century forward. Harrington argues that the biological turn had relatively little to do with new...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This primer covers the differential diagnosis of dementia. Hosts: Dr. Alastair Morrison (PGY-1) and Dr. Angad Singh (PGY-1) Audio editing by: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY-1) Resources: MoCA: https://dementia.talkbank.org/protocol/materials/MOCA.pdf MMSE: https://meded.temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/assets/resource/document/mini-mental-state-examinationmmse.pdf Beers Criteria: American Geriatrics Societ...
Jan 31, 2025•11 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers ADHD in youth with Dr. Daniel Gorman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a Staff Psychiatrist at The Hospital for Sick Children. Dr Gorman’s clinical and academic interests include ADHD, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, child psychopharmacology, psychiatric education, and narrative medicine. He is highly involved in reside...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers psychotherapy in youth with Dr. Laurence Katz, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Katz received his medical and adult psychiatric training at the University of Manitoba and his child and adolescent psychiatry training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx N.Y. He is an adjunct scientist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and ha...
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This is a special episode in a new series — the PsychEd Book Club, a forum where we'll introduce and discuss books of interest to psychiatry learners from a variety of disciplines, moving beyond epidemiology and clinical practice to look at science, history, culture, and more. We'll also invite you to read along and discuss with us as we read! Our book club episodes will start with a short introductory episode ...
Nov 02, 2024•8 min
Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers Introduction to Consultation Liaison Psychiatry with Dr. Raed Hawa and Dr. Alan Wai, both from the University of Toronto. Dr. Raed Hawa is an esteemed CL psychiatrist and educator with interests in undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical education. He also practices general sleep medicine with particular clinical interest in insomnia, comorbid psychiatric and medical illnesses, a...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 15 min
