OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Psychiatry is a medical specialty. It has changed or perhaps, better, been changed a great deal in the last 40 years. There are competing claims on its future. Much of hospital medicine has moved in the direction of being applied science and improved patient outcomes. We face a series of uncertainties. Can psychiatry aspire to be applied neuroscience? We have not improved patient outcomes in psychiatry in the same way as other specialties – is this a reason to double down or give up on neuroscience? Psychiatry is viewed in a different way from the rest of medicine and by the rest of medicine. Are current directions of the profession likely to make that better or worse? Indeed, does it matter? Are we waving or are we drowning? Without posing the questions we are unlikely to find the answers.
