Dr Sam Korman

MBBS, FRANZCP ~ Psychiatrist



Medical Experience.


Intern Medical Officer, Logan Hospital - 1999-2000.

Intern rotations in general medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, emergency medicine and psychiatry.

Junior House Officer, Logan Hospital - 2000-2001.

Terms in anaesthetics and emergency medicine.

Senior House Officer, Logan Hospital - 2001 - 2002.

Senior House Officer terms in paediatrics and obstetrics & gynaecology.

Provisional House Officer and Psychiatric Registrar, Logan Hospital - 2002 - 2005.

Six months as a Provisional House Officer in psychiatry. Accepted for psychiatric training by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Training terms in integrated general adult psychiatry, community psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and consultation-liaison placements.

Psychiatric Registrar, The Prince Charles Hospital - 2005.
Further training terms in forensic psychiatry and psychiatry of old age.

Advanced Trainee, The Prince Charles Hospital 2006 - 2008.

Advanced training terms in private practice (New Farm Clinic), general adult psychiatry and acute care psychiatry (The Prince Charles Hospital).

Consultant Psychiatrist 2008 - 2010.

Consulting psychiatrist in private practice at New Farm Clinic and Griffith University (The Life Promotion Clinic). Visiting specialist at New Farm Clinic.
Staff specialist at The Prince Charles Hospital - general adult psychiatry appointment consisting of consulting at community psychiatric clinics at multiple centres, teaching medical students and supervising training registrars.

Consultant Psychiatrist in full-time private practice: 2010 - present.

Full-time private practice at New Farm Clinic. Practice focusing on general adult psychiatry (mood disorders, psychosis, anxiety disorders, eating disorders and personality disorders) with an interest in psychotherapy.
Supervision of training registrars at New Farm Clinic, and for training psychotherapy cases.
Supervision of the Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Programme for 18-25-year-olds, New Farm Clinic (2010 - 2019).
Director of the Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and Mentalisation Programmes, New Farm Clinic 2019 – present.
Member of the Medical Advisory Board, New Farm Clinic, 2010 - 2022.
Deputy Chair of the Medical Advisory Board, New Farm Clinic, 2022 - 2023.
Chair of the Medical Advisory Board, New Farm Clinic, 2023 - present.
Chair of New Farm Clinic Grand Rounds from 2017.

Member of General Medical Assessment Tribunal, Office of Industrial Relations: 2019 – present.

Education.

MBBS, 1998, University of Qld.

FRANZCP, 2008, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 2007, CBT Australia.

Training in Qld Guidelines for evaluation of permanent impairment (psychiatric and psychological disorders), WorkCover Qld, 2018.

Training in Transference Focused Psychotherapy, 2019, Adelaide Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Education Association.

Transference Focused Psychotherapy- weekly supervision, 2019 – ongoing, Assoc. Prof Ken Levy, Pennsylvania State University.