Gill Garden MB ChB, MRCP, MRCPsych

Dr. Gill Garden read medicine at the University of Birmingham. She intercalated a year, gaining a first-class honors degree in neuropharmacology, and won prizes for obstetrics and gynecology. After qualifying, she trained in medicine, passing MRCP, and then psychiatry and MRCPsych. Whilst training, she undertook research on brittle asthma, the use of QALYS, and the value of diagnosis-related groups in psychiatry.

On moving to Lincolnshire in 1993, Gill took up a consultant post in General Adult Psychiatry in Lincoln covering a catchment area of over 750 square miles. During this time, she set up a mobile day hospital team and collaborated with the Shaw Trust, to help people with mental health problems return to work. She was invited to be the psychiatrist for the Diocese of Lincoln, to be an examiner for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and was invited to join the College working group for the proposed OSCEs. Gill also contributed to the writing and staging of the MRCPsych clinical examinations for over a decade. She was also invited to write an article on physical examination for psychiatrists for Advances in Psychiatry and subsequently two modules on physical examination for the College CPD website.