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Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. In this episode, we discuss the biopsychosocial formulation--what it is and how we do it . Our guest expert is Dr. Erin Carter, an in-patient psychiatrist at St. Joseph's Healthcare Centre in Toronto, Canada.

The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:

1. Understand the components of a biopsychosocial formulation
2. Develop an approach to organizing and eliciting salient information to aid in formulation
3. Distinguish between summary and synthesis of information
4. Understand how to communicate a formulation effectively
5. Use the biopsychosocial formulation to inform a management plan


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