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Overview:
The Division of General Adult Psychiatry (DGAP), one of the largest
in the UWO Department of Psychiatry, is primarily based out of the
London Health Sciences Centre, and is the academic home of acute care
psychiatry, spanning the continuum of mental healthcare.
Entrusted to the division is the responsibility to provide the core
educational experiences required by medical students, psychiatry
residents, as well as those from family medicine and other specialties,
in addition to trainees in related health disciplines. As such, the
division’s influence extends beyond just producing competent psychiatric
generalists, notwithstanding the importance of the latter.
We have had another very productive academic year. Much of the
department’s undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical
education/continuing professional development are delivered by DGAP
faculty. The nationally acclaimed UWO Psychiatry Exam Preparation Course
organized by our Dr. Praful Chandarana, and taught by many divisional
members, continues to grow in popularity on an annual basis. Several
DGAP members were also significantly involved with the planning of the
successful Mood Disorders Symposium, held at the Lamplighter Inn.
Similarly, our research productivity has increased as can be attested to
in the UWO Department of Psychiatry’s Annual Report.
Following the successful implementation of the new PGY2 curriculum in
London, which included the new educational rounds incorporated this
year, we are working with local lead physicians Drs. Tam Doey (Windsor)
and Ranjith Chandrasena (Chatham), with the intention to broaden
available training sites for the PGY2 year, as well as all General
Psychiatry and ultimately full Psychiatry Residency training to the
Windsor and SWOMEN campus locations.
Certainly one of our most significant events this academic year was
the Milestone 2 (M2P2) transfer, which occurred in April 2011. This
involved the winding down of our site at South Street Hospital with
relocation to the Victoria Hospital Campus. Now, we can take advantage
of the greater geographic connectivity with other medical specialists,
as well as with our own colleagues in child and adolescent psychiatry.
This should lead to greater collaborative education and research
opportunities, as well as new partnerships in clinical service
development; psychosomatic medicine and enhanced transitional youth
services being two such examples.
This upcoming academic year, we look forward to further new clinical
service developments, including but not limited to starting an adult
eating disorders program, as well as utilizing enhanced psychiatric and
non-medical staffing to expand concurrent disorder management, and
developing transitional adult-psychogeriatric programming.
Building on existing research strengths in clinical outcomes, program
evaluation, smart health technologies, educational scholarship, and
neuroimaging, the DGAP will endeavour to develop new clinical research
programs in psychopharmacology, and neuropsychiatry/psychosomatic
medicine, collaborating with other divisions and departments/faculties.
For an overview of the division’s varied programs along with
individual goals for the next academic year, written in conjunction with
the respective medical leaders, please visit, the
London Health Sciences Centre Psychiatry Based Services and the
St.
Joseph’s Health Care – Psychiatry Based Services on the DGAP’s area of the website.
Contact Us:
Chair: Jeffrey Reiss, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCPA,
DFAPA
email:
jreiss4@uwo.ca
Admin. Assistant: Cathy Kramer
email:
cathy.kramer@lhsc.on.ca
phone: 519-685-8500, ext. 75665
fax: 519-667-6564
