Psychiatrist - Medical Clinic

1 month ago

Ontario, Canada The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Full time

Interested in the arts from an early age, her passion for psychiatry emerged after a chance rotation during medical school. Today, she’s a psychiatrist in The Ottawa Hospital’s offsite On Track program for people experiencing early symptoms of psychosis, and she’s part of an essential team helping people get back to the life they want to live .
Brandigampola is helping people with psychosis rewrite their stories — and the surprising career she would have chosen if she didn’t pursue medicine.
I did a lot of theatre, dance, and music. Our music program was a vocal program, and I was fortunate to travel a lot with our choir; Q: When did you decide to pursue medicine, and specifically psychiatry?
In the end, I always wanted to help people. I had a strong sense of social justice and wanting to contribute in a meaningful way to helping people. So, I chose medicine because I thought it would be more fulfilling for me.
I studied cellular biology at Western University in London, Ontario, and then came to Ottawa for medical school. In third year medical school, you rotate through different areas, and I was not interested in psychiatry; But, when I went into the psychiatry rotation, I found it so meaningful looking at people from a global perspective — not just at their medical illness, but at their living situation, their relationships, their childhood, their income, at what makes them a person — and how can we help them with their illness. I also loved the teamwork aspect — it felt side-by-side with nursing, social work, occupational therapy, recreational therapy, everything; everyone was really working as a cohesive team with this vision of how we could help this person as a person.
“Now that I think about it, I think a lot of my skills were aligned with psychiatry. Psychiatry wound up being a meeting point between neurology and the arts. With psychiatry, we can help people tell their stories in a way that has meaning to them.
Q: How has the field of psychiatry changed since you started?
I definitely think there’s a lot less stigma about mental health now than when I started. We have a walking group, a social group, a sports group, occupational therapy, recreational therapy, medication. The goal of our clinic is to intervene earlier in the illness.
We have a walking group, a social group, a sports group, occupational therapy, recreational therapy, medication. We take self-referrals, so if people have a loved one, or if they’re wondering if something is happening to themselves, they can call us, and we’ll see them and help them figure it out.
Q: What is The Ottawa Hospital doing in psychiatry and mental health that is exciting or groundbreaking?
I think it is very exciting what we do as a clinic — we have such amazing success stories. But we have such great outcomes at this clinic. This illness does not have to dramatically change your life, and I would say it’s because of the model of care we provide.
Jess Fiedorowicz , Head and Chief of the Department of Mental Health, is amazing. I think he’s striving for mental health to be even more comprehensive. Q: As a psychiatrist, why did you choose to work at The Ottawa Hospital?
Sarah Brandigampola and the On Track team at a music festival
This is not work you can do on your own, and it’s wonderful to have such a great clinical team, but also this community of people where there’s a genuine camaraderie. It can be difficult sometimes, but there’s a lot of humour and friendship and genuine caring for each other.
I’m also so grateful for my patients and to be trusted with their stories and their care. Q: What would we find you doing when you aren’t at the hospital?
If I can, I enjoy seeing live music and things that keep me engaged with the arts.
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