Psychiatry Boot Camp

Dr. Kristin Mueller, an emergency physician and firearm injury prevention researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses firearm violence as a public health crisis. She demonstrates compassionate lethal-means counseling, explores secure storage and de-escalation, and examines reinjury risk. She also explains how Life Outside of Violence supports young trauma survivors through clinical, social, and community-based care.

Dr. Allison Hadley, a psychiatrist leading psychiatric emergency care at Oregon Health & Science University, explores motivational interviewing in high-acuity settings. She connects Tina Fey’s improv principles with OARS, trauma-informed care, stages of change, and ask-tell-ask psychoeducation. The conversation also covers harm reduction, methamphetamine safety kits, recognizing change talk, and a role-play involving anxiety and cannabis use.

Christine Crawford, NAMI’s Chief Medical Officer and a child psychiatrist, discusses helping families recognize when children need support, using the “distress radius,” primary care, DBT skills, and community resources. Steve Hoffmann, FNIH’s Chief Preclinical Officer, explores MAPD, a landmark effort combining imaging, genetics, wearables, and patient voices to advance more precise depression care.

Dr. Megan Schott, a child and adolescent psychiatrist specializing in pediatric emergency psychiatry, explores the youth psychiatric boarding crisis. They discuss scarce beds, the hidden costs of hospitalization, and how child psychiatrists, mobile crisis teams, and urgent care models can reshape emergency care. A supervision case on conduct disorder and rapid-fire takes on parity, social media risks, and practical ED strategies round out the conversation.

Lia Thomas, Associate Program Director at UT Southwestern and residency advising leader, gives a practical walkthrough of the psychiatry match. She covers how many programs to apply to, strategic use of the 10 program signals, what programs prioritize when screening, how to frame your application components, and interview and post-interview strategy. Short, actionable guidance throughout.

Dr. Preston Roche, a physician and co-host of How to Be a Patient, joins Dr. Mark Mullen for a lively Season 4 retrospective shaped by listener feedback. They explore meaningful psychotherapy, problematic screen use, decisional capacity, DSM reform, TMS, physician-assisted suicide, complex PTSD, incarceration, involuntary treatment, sports psychiatry, and AI’s impact on psychiatry’s future.

Dr. David McDuff, a pioneering sports and performance psychiatrist with 30+ years serving teams including the Orioles and Ravens, explores mental health care in athletics. He discusses embedded clinical care, team boundaries and confidentiality, common challenges from ADHD to injury recovery, eating-pattern risks, medication approaches, and building effective athlete mental-health programs.

Jonathan Shedler, psychotherapist and clinical researcher known for reviving psychoanalytic principles. He argues for returning to deep, exploratory talk therapy. He challenges diagnose-and-prescribe routines. He emphasizes partnership, clinician training through personal therapy and supervision, proper dose and duration, and escaping therapy clichés to reach specific, meaningful work.

In this brief bonus segment of Psychiatry Boot Camp, host Dr. Mark Mullen steps into the feed with a direct request from you...the listenters. As Season Four approaches its conclusion, the platform is shifting its final episode to a peer-responsive format driven entirely by listener inputs. Dr. Mullen notes that the season has featured highly controversial topics and that he frequently abandoned an unbiased stance to take explicit clinical positions. Psychiatrists, residents, and mental health professionals are invited to submit their critiques, follow-up questions on any covered material, or general psychiatry queries to be read and answered on the air. Learn more and get transcripts for EVERY episode at https://www.psychiatrybootcamp.com/ For Sales Inquiries & Ad Rates, Please Contact:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Connect with HumanContent on Socials: @humancontentpods Produced by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Human Content Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Justin Romano, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Millennial Mental Health Channel host, breaks down the crisis of problematic screen use. He discusses how addictive app design hijacks developing brains. He covers harms like emotional dysregulation, loneliness, and classroom disruption. Practical family tactics and policy ideas to hold tech companies accountable are also highlighted.