Proud of UoL School of Medicine student Zeryab Meyer presenting his work on screening thresholds of Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale #BEDS to better assess Depression in advanced cancer at #RCPsychIC2021 Royal College of Psychiatrists RCPsych Liaison Psychiatry Faculty The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre LCRI ARC North West Coast @livPCMH NWCR - UoL

Amazing experience presenting work I conducted with Prof Mari Lloyd-Williams and colleagues on severity cutoffs for the Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale at the Royal College of Psychiatrists international congress today! What a great conference it has been. An incredible week #RCPsychIC

Yesterday was a great start to the week here at #RCPsychIC! Highlights for me were the management of refractory psychosis, and precision psychiatry in perinatal mental health by the amazing S Meltzer-Brody. Some amazing talks yet to come - eager to see what the rest of the week holds.

HR 1.13 (late discontinuers vs continuers), and HR 1.28 for women with previous affective disorders

Revisiting this excellent paper out of Stanford regarding their radically different protocol for delivering Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and the great results they saw in patients with severe depressive pathology.. Interested to see where it leads ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, Dr. Lade Smith CBE is urging all political parties to prioritise mental health ahead of the General Election. See more here ➡️ rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…

I’d like to thank everyone for all your kind comments after my talk today. Both face to face & here. It was overwhelming. It was difficult to do - I’m very glad I did it - but that is only because of all your incredible kindness. Thank you all so much! Stephen Lawrie #RCPsychIC

Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) used to be internationally respected. The MRCP examination was a necessary right of passage for doctors going on to specialist training, undertaking a challenging exam that examined clinical skills and clinical knowledge. It

I have honestly no idea what it would take to make it up to candidates affected by this scandal (and it is a scandal). Paying for a resit isn’t enough. What about the candidates who were mistakenly told they had failed, who then may have left training? Awful

I’ve finished crying about this and now I’m just full of rage. How can you do this MRCPUK Examinations? I don’t understand. What do you mean your auditing processes found an error? 1.5 years later?! A refund and a free booking for a resit is not enough. Show us what went wrong 😩 (n/?)