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Keep Psychiatry in Mind: resources for secondary school students school if they are interested in psychiatry as a career. It contains useful resources such as posters, infographics, videos and factsheets. •• What a psychiatrist does: provides a snapshot of what a psychiatrist can do to help people, including treatments and dayto-day work. It also addresses the differences between psychiatrists and psychologists. •• Promote psychiatry: is dedicated to RANZCP members who would like to raise awareness of psychiatry at a secondary school. It contains a starter slide-deck to help with a career-style presentation and other resources that could be distributed to students as part of the presentation.

The RANZCP has launched Keep Psychiatry in Mind, a youth-oriented campaign to raise awareness of the work of psychiatrists among secondary school students and to inform them of the career pathway to become a psychiatrist. A webpage has been created on the RANZCP website for anyone interested in becoming a psychiatrist in Australia or New Zealand. The webpage has

three sub-pages that have been developed to raise the profile of psychiatry among secondary school students: •• Pathways into psychiatry for secondary school students: covers the training required to become a psychiatrist, career facts, skills and personal traits that a psychiatrist must have, and other important tips for students to consider during

We invite you to visit www.ranzcp. org/becomeapsychiatrist and browse the information that is now available for secondary school students. If you have any queries regarding these resources, please email [email protected] The RANZCP wishes to thank the Fellows and trainees who contributed to the development of these resources. The RANZCP has received Australian Government funding under the Specialist Training Program for this project.

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