Mena Mirhom, MD, FAPA’s session, “Participating Media to Promote Life-style and Psychological Well being: A Coaching for Psychiatry Fellows,” was successful with residents at this yr’s American Psychiatric Affiliation (APA) Annual Assembly.
“Any time you’ve got trainees listening, that all the time brightens up a session,” mentioned Mirhom.
Mirhom and his copresenters took the chance to debate Columbia’s media coaching course for fellows. For 1 yr, public psychiatry fellows work on web site all through New York Metropolis, studying how you can greatest interact with media, whether or not that’s conventional, print, or social media.
“What we see is, all through that yr, people soak up lots of unimaginable info, however do not all the time know how you can share it,” mentioned Mirhom. “We give them some greatest practices.”
Earlier this month, Daanish Khorasani, MD, shared a little bit of his personal story with learning media underneath Mirhom: “Throughout this rotation, I’ve been writing, serving to produce content material, attending information segments each in-studio and just about, contributing to and studying extra about podcasting, and studying the ropes of media communication, from pitch to submit… I’ve by no means realized this a lot about reaching individuals this shortly in my whole residency.”1
The session shared case eventualities, then prompted attendees to reply to misinformation: How do you fight half-truth? What are one of the best methods that you could reply throughout a TV interview when there is a digicam in your face? What do you say? How do you say it in a concise, clear, related manner?
You’ll be able to study extra about Mirhom’s media greatest practices in his new column, “Media Mastery With Dr Mena.”2
Dr Mirhom is the fast previous president of the New York County Psychiatric Society, an assistant professor of psychiatry and codirector of the PPF Categorical Program at Columbia College, and the chief wellbeing officer at Athletes for Hope.
References
1. Khorasani D. Why you must do a media literacy elective in psychiatry residency. Psychiatric Occasions. Could 16, 2025. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/why-you-should-do-a-media-literacy-elective-in-psychiatry-residency
2. Mirhom M. Defending skilled boundaries within the digital age. Psychiatric Occasions. March 13, 2025. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/protecting-professional-boundaries-in-the-digital-age