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Podcast: PsychEd: Educational Psychiatry Podcast
Episode: PsychEd Episode 2: Treatment of Depression with Dr. Sidney Kennedy
Description: Welcome to PsychED, the educational psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers the approach to treating Major Depressive Disorder, as described by the CANMAT (Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments) Guidelines. We discuss with Dr. Sid Kennedy, the founding chair of CANMAT, the past president of International Society for Affective Disorders, as well as a staff psychiatrist and scientist at Toronto Western and St. Michael’s Hospitals in Toronto. In this episode, Dr. Kennedy discusses the origins of the CANMAT and how the guidelines are structured and constructed. We talk br...