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Podcast: PsychEd: Educational Psychiatry Podcast
Episode: PsychEd Episode 1: Diagnosis of Depression with Dr. Ilana Shawn
Description: Welcome to PsychEd, the educational psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers the diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD), leveraging experience from Dr. Ilana Shawn, Staff Emergency and Outpatient Psychiatrist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. In this episode we talk about a hypothetical case of someone presenting for the first time with a depressive illness. Using the metric of DALY (disability-adjusted life-years), we highlight the high global disease burden of depression. We then briefly discuss the purpose and limitations of using a diagnostic manual. We describe in depth the sy...