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This episode discusses psychiatry and ethics in Ontario with Dr. Suze Berkhout.

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 draws on critical creative methods in ethnography, art-science collaborations, and feminist science and technology studies, to consider the politics of diagnosis and social lives of interventions and emerging technologies in biomedicine. She works with artists, service users, clinicians and scientists to understand how serious illness experiences impact our sense of identity and our social roles, and she studies the impacts of novel and emerging technologies on experiences in healthcare settings. Suze loves coffee and finding new ways to think with stories. The learning objectives are as follows: 1. Gain familiarity with key ethical concepts in psychiatry, including how ethics differs…

Topics covered

• psychiatry
• ethics
• clinical reasoning
• autonomy
• confidentiality
• decision-making

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