Psyched: Educational Psychiatry Podcast

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode is our fourth and final episode in our mini-series on schizophrenia. In this episode, we take an advanced look at the clinical management of schizophrenia, including a discussion of treatment-resistant schizophrenia and clozapine. Warning: this content in this episode is a little bit more advanced than usual, but also ultra interesting.     Our guest expert is Dr. Gary Remington. He is a researcher, psychiatrist, Chief of the Schizophrenia Division at CAMH and an author of the 2017 Canadian schizophrenia guidelines    The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:    By the end of this episode, the listener will be able to… Have an approach to treating a first episode psychosis of schizophrenia Understand the important components of maintenance treatment in schizophrenia Understand the concept of treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) Know when to initiate clozapine List some of the psychosocial inte