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The Psychiatry Interest Forum (PIF)
Have an interest in mental health and psychiatry? Join the PIF program for free and receive a range of opportunities, scholarships and resources to learn about a career in psychiatry.
- Join PIF Join the RANZCP’s Psychiatry Interest Forum (PIF) and stay in the loop with the College’s activities and opportunities.
- Opportunities for PIF members The Psychiatry Interest Forum offers a range of free and funded activities to help you get to know psychiatry and the RANZCP.
- Learn about social and emotional wellbeing Resources to understand the concepts of social and emotional wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PIF members Specific supports, scholarship opportunities and educational materials if you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and are looking to begin a career in psychiatry.
- Māori and Pasifika PIF members Specific supports, scholarship opportunities and educational materials if you identify as Māori and/or Pasifika and are looking to begin a career in psychiatry.
- Discover psychiatry Gain valuable insights into a career in psychiatry from RANZCP psychiatrists and trainees.
Opportunities for PIF members
Catch up
Video
PIF Retreat 2025Catch up on the 2025 PIF Retreat in Naarm (Melbourne) with speakers talking about addiction psychiat...
Naarm (Melbourne), VIC
Webinar
PIF NZ: How to apply to the RANZCP Fellowship Training ProgramGain insights into a day in the life of a psychiatrist, psychiatry subspecialties, practice opportun...
Zoom
Webinar
PIF NZ 2025 'Introduction to Psychiatry' Online Short CourseGain further understanding of psychiatry careers, psychiatry subspecialties and various pathways in ...
Online
Video
PIF 2025 Introduction to psychiatry short course PerthRecordings from the PIF Introduction to Psychiatry Short Course, held in Perth, WA on Saturday 18 Oc...
Perth
Video
PIF 2025 Introduction to psychiatry rural short course SAHear from PIF members
Intern at Wellington Hospital, Wellington
Medical student 3rd year at Charles Sturt University
Medical student 4th Year at University of Adelaide
Medical Student 4th year at Flinders University
Medical Postgraduate Year 2, VIC
Medical Postgraduate Year 2, NZ
3rd year medical student, University of Melbourne
1st year medical student, University of Notre Dame
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The RANZCP has received Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing funding under the Psychiatry Workforce Program (PWP) to deliver the PIF Australia program.
