About PsychSoc

KCL Psychiatry Society was set up in 2005 to promote psychiatry as a career to medical students, support those students who wished to pursue psychiatry as a career and raise the profile of mental health issues amongst all student health professionals.

Meet the KCL PsychSoc committee >

We arrange a programme of lectures that are lively and controversial, often featuring eminent speakers. Previous speakers have included Simon Baron Cohen, David Oakley, Professor Robin Murray, and Professor Simon Wellesley.

We also run ICE (incremental clinical examination) revision sessions in psychiatry for 3rd year medical students at the end of each rotation, and a Psychiatry OSCE revision session for final year medical students.

We also offer an annual psychiatry careers evening and psychiatry electives evening. Please see our Activities & Events calendar for further details.

Psych Soc works closely with the undergraduate psychiatry team at King’s College London School of Medicine, to improve the quality of the psychiatry attachments for students. We are indebted to the Department of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry for their help and support over the years.

We publicise details of Psychiatry-related SSC’s, which are offered in conjunction with staff from the Institute of Psychiatry.

Most events are open to all, particularly students & staff of King’s College London, the Institute of Psychiatry and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. There is no membership fee.

Our events are attended by medical students at other London Medical Schools and there are plans for KCL Psychiatry Society to be the medical student interest group in psychiatry at St George’s, UCL and Barts and the London Medical Schools. We are also happy to support and encourage interested students at other medical schools to set up their own societies. Please contact us for further information.