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Every year physicians and residents encounter a growing number of patients — and a shrinking amount of time to keep up-to-date on new practices or legislation surrounding the field of mental...

“Over time, my perspective on psychiatry has changed in the direction of greater skepticism." What happens to your perspective after five de...

“Good systems just work. They don't need to be navigated.” On this episode of Quick Takes , I spoke with Dr. Paul Kurdyak about how mental h...

“The beating heart of the wellness industry is pseudoscience.” With a few clicks of the mouse, our patients can read what we read – includin...

“Imagine a world where you have all the effects of antipsychotics, but none of the side effects.” Celebrities use them; politicians discuss...

“It’s one of the largest psychotherapy trials in the world.” When we hear “innovations in mental healthcare,” we tend to think about apps or...

“Does depression care include the downward dog?” Mindfulness, acupuncture, yoga. These were all once considered alternative treatments – fav...

“We all need help sometimes.” As doctors, we often shy away from discussing our health, especially our mental health — even with our own phy...

“It took a pandemic to get us to realise that we could do so much online.” When it comes to medical education, much has changed over the yea...

“What is a mentor? Four words. One big question.” What do you look for in a mentor? What qualities should you consider? And, more importantl...

Welcome to another episode of Quick Takes Essentials , our summer series. This essential episode first aired in 2023 and is on the perpetual...

Welcome to another episode of Quick Takes Essentials , our summer series. On this episode, released this past February, I sat down with Dr....

Welcome back to Quick Takes Essentials our summer series. ChatGPT is the most downloaded app in history. What are the implications for menta...

Welcome to another episode of Quick Takes Essentials , our summer series. This essential episode was released just this past May and is on t...

Welcome back to Quick Takes Essentials our summer series where we look back on recent clinical updates and big issues in psychiatry, which w...

Welcome to Quick Takes Essentials our summer series that introduces (or re-introduces) you to episodes from our archives that have focused o...

“As far as medical treatments go, ECT is the safest medical procedure in all of medicine.” Will the stigma around ECT fade? Will ECT simply...

“They really are the most widely used guidelines in the world.” Much has changed over the past eight years. In 2016, singer Olivia Rodrigo w...

“It's visible. It's in our streetcars and buses, our subways our streets, and it's hard to ignore.” Homelessness seems to be more prevalent...

Textbooks, highlighters, and classrooms? The world of medical education is changing. Today, we have AI, sim, and e-learning. To talk about M...

“We want to really be cautious because these are complex pieces of software “ Should we be using an AI-based tool like ChatGPT in practice?...

On this episode of Quick Take s, Dr. Gratzer explores the increasing interest in coercive interventions across various jurisdictions. Joinin...

“I’ll never forget when it happened.” Up to 80% of psychiatrists experience a suicide loss in their careers and a recent survey found that t...

“Burnout has become a loose term that means different things to different people.” Is burnout, in fact, depression? In this episode of Quick...

“The lines between sleep, health and mental health in general are blurred.” Sleep is an important topic. It comes up on a regular basis when...

“It's not necessarily all sunshine and rainbows.” A major, new study in The New England Journal of Medicine considers psilocybin and its pot...

“Always leave them wanting more.” On this episode of Quick Takes , Dr. David Gratzer enjoys a conversation with retiring psychiatrist, Dr. D...

“We can create an environment that’s safe, predictable, consistent, standardized and reproducible.” To discuss how simulation is changing th...

“It’s highly prevalent, highly available, highly pure and highly destructive.” In this episode of Quick Takes , Dr. David Gratzer speaks wit...

“It’s an extraordinary program that literally helps hundreds of thousands of people a year.” During this discussion you will learn: • the in...

“We need to think about more than just the classic medical model borrowed from infectious disease: simple bug, simple drug.” Today’s convers...

“I think most physicians should be aware that there is some evidence.” Cannabis continues to be a topic of interest to clinicians and in thi...

“There's this unanimous sense that how could something like this not exist? It seems so logical and beneficial.” This episode of Quick Takes...

“I would get home at the end of my long shifts on the wards, and I would have nothing left. Nothing left for myself, nothing left for my spo...

Can the wearable on your patient’s wrist help prevent their next manic episode? On this episode of Quick Takes Dr. Gratzer hosts Dr. John To...

Patients wait for care; quality is often uneven. Can we do better? In this episode, Dr. David Gratzer speaks with Dr. David Goldbloom, Senio...

Sometimes it’s the simple things that make the biggest impact on patient care. In episode 14 of Quick Takes Dr. Gratzer talks to two leading...

As Ramadan begins, what should you know as you care for your patients with mental health problems? In episode 13 of Quick Takes Dr. Gratzer...

“Racism exists and it exists in the lives of our patients.” – Dr. Amy Gajaria In episode 12 of Quick Takes Dr. Gratzer hosts Drs. Amy Gajari...

Which apps should you recommend to your patients? On this episode of Quick Takes Dr. Gratzer sits down with returning guest and digital psyc...

“If you have a room of one hundred people, one hundred people in that room have been affected by suicide.” So notes Dr. Juveria Zaheer , CAM...

“We’re having a digital moment in medicine and behavioural health like one we have never seen.” So notes Dr. Jay Shore , chair of the Americ...

The world of mental health care delivery is being reshaped. In this episode of Quick Takes , Dr. David Gratzer sits down with the associate...

With one year of legalized cannabis (and this podcast) under our belts, it’s time to look at the impact that cannabis (and now legal edibles...

Motivational interviewing for anxiety-related cannabis use (a role-play) In this episode’s Double Take , Drs. Gratzer and Buckley enjoy the...

“I’m not sure we’re there yet, in psychiatry, in having that kind of useful information to make it really ‘just-for-me’ learning. I think ‘j...

“As we think about simulation, and how it might not be feasible for everyone to come to a place and practice in a simulation lab, how we can...

“The biggest risk is self-study without actual demonstration of performance.” Dr. Peter Selby, CAMH Chief of Medicine in Psychiatry, discuss...

“It’s no accident that Alexa and Siri have names… so I suspect that technology will also morph to be more and more human-like.” Dr. David Go...

AI. Apps. Simulation. In this episode of Quick Takes , Dr. David Gratzer sits down with Drs. Ivan Silver, Peter Selby, Sanjeev Sockalingam,...

“How many more patients? How much time is left in my day?” Sound familiar? Hopefully not too familiar – such thinking may indicate burnout....