Femi Oyebode

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Femi Oyebode
Alma mater University of Ibadan
Awards Royal College of Psychiatrists Lifetime Achievement Award
Scientific career
Institutions University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Femi Oyebode is a retired Professor and Head of Department of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham. He has investigated the relationships between literature and psychiatry. His research has considered descriptive psychopathology and delusional misidentification syndrome. He was awarded the 2016 Royal College of Psychiatrists lifetime achievement award.

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Early life and education

Oyebode was born in Lagos. [1] [2] He was initially interested in literature and poetry, but encouraged to become a physician by his father. He attended a boarding school where he had to decide between specialising in science or the humanities. He eventually settled on biology. He studied medicine at the University of Ibadan and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979. Here he completed his higher training under the supervision of Allan Ker, Hamish McClelland and Kurt Schapira. [1] He earned his MRCPsych (membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists) in 1983, and was soon appointed a Consultant Psychiatrist in the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

Research and career

In 2005 Oyebode took over writing Sim's Symptoms in the Mind from its original author Andrew Sims (psychiatrist). [3] Sim's Symptoms in the Mind is a textbook that has become a leading introduction in clinical psychopathology that hs been translated into Estonian, Korean, Portuguese and Italian. It is currently in its sixth edition. [4] His MD thesis, which he completed in 1989, was supervised by Ken Davison. [1] He was appointed medical director of the South Birmingham Mental Health Trust in 1997. [5] He completed a further doctorate in the philosophy of mind at Swansea University in 1998. [6]

Oyebode was a Consultant Psychiatrist at the National Centre for Mental Health Birmingham until his retirement in 2021. He was made Director of the South Birmingham Mental Health Trust in 1997. In 2002 he was appointed Chief Examining Officer at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His research considers the neuropsychiatry of delusional misidentification syndrome. He served as Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham from 2003 to 2009. [7] In 2016 he was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists Lifetime Achievement Award. [8] [9]

Poetry

Alongside his research career, Oyebode is interested in the intersection of psychiatry of literature. He has written about the need for humanities in postgraduate medical education. [10] He has published over seven volumes of poetry. [11] [12] He was given Legend Recognition at the Creativity and Arts Awards in 2017. [13]

Selected publications

His publications include;

He has served as Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry.

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  3. ↑ Davies, Gaius (June 2009). "Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology (4th edn) Femi Oyebode, Elsevier–Saunders. 2008. £37.04 (pb). 484pp. ISBN 9780702028854". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 194 (6): 572. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.061689 . ISSN   0007-1250.
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  5. ↑ admin. "Prof. Femi Oyebode to receive Legend Recognition at CA Awards 2017". C.Hubmagazine. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  6. ↑ "Professor Oluwafemi (Femi) Oyebode - Institute of Clinical Sciences - University of Birmingham". www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-29.[ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Femi Oyebode". Ake Festival. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  8. ↑ "Femi Oyebode". Archived from the original on 2019-09-29. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  9. ↑ RCPsych Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2016 , retrieved 2019-09-29
  10. ↑ Oyebode, Femi (2009). "The humanities in postgraduate medical education". Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. 15 (3): 224–229. doi: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005645 . ISSN   1355-5146.
  11. ↑ "Femi Oyebode". Hole Ousia. 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  12. ↑ "African Writing; Poetry; Femi Oyebode; She was already Dead". www.african-writing.com. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  13. ↑ admin. "Prof. Femi Oyebode to receive Legend Recognition at CA Awards 2017". C.Hubmagazine. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
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