Psychiatry CME Courses
Psychiatry CME Courses
With Comprehensive Review of Psychiatry, you’ll gain a practical approach to providing the best possible clinical care and outcomes for patients suffering mental, emotional, and behavioral problems. Course Director Paul Summergrad, MD, and his colleagues deliver 45 in-depth lectures covering common and uncommon psychiatric disorders, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychopharmacologic treatments, psychotherapeutic treatments, medical psychiatry, and ethical and legal issues.
This online CME course will help you to better:
- Describe interventions and treatments for opioid use disorder
- Distinguish between major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
- Summarize the techniques used in motivational interviewing
- Explain the diagnosis and management of age-related cognitive decline
- Discuss the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD and related disorders
- Encapsulate the methods used for treatment-resistant depression
This CME program is a comprehensive review of essential topics in child development. Pediatric Care Series: Diagnosis and Management of Behavior and Development includes case-based lectures on topics like cardiac murmurs, speech delay and autism, disruptive behavior problems in children, childhood obesity, communication issues in outpatient pediatrics, etc. It will help you to:
- Identify and effectively manage common developmental and behavioral disorders in children
- Recognize the red flags and symptoms for severe childhood disorders
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with patients’ families
- Attain the latest knowledge on common developmental and behavioral issues in children
- Apply new information to everyday pediatrics care, improving diagnostic accuracy and management decisions
Practical Reviews is a fast, effective way to stay on top of new medical information and earn online CME. Featuring expert audio, text commentary and relevant clinical tips, articles are hand-selected from leading medical journals across 20 specialties. Subscribe today and choose a special discount or an Amazon.com Gift Card!
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Practical Reviews is just that — practical, expert reviews of the most significant articles from the top medical journals. This time-saving information management tool helps you understand what’s relevant to your practice, and keeps you on the cutting edge of patient care. Explore reviews in your specialty plus 19 others. These engaging audio commentaries and written summaries focus on the hottest topics, newest technologies, groundbreaking clinical tests, and more.
It takes just 15 minutes to read the summary, listen to the commentary, take a quiz and earn credit. A subscription includes access to the online database, audio, PDF abstracts and quizzes, not to mention the free app. You can also add audio CDs and printed abstracts, which we'll mail directly to you each month.
UCLA Review of Clinical Neurology focuses on common neurological disorders and their adept management. Led by Alon Avidan, MD, MPH, and Barbara Giesser, MD, this CME course includes case-based lectures on topics such as movement disorders, innovations in neurostimulation, critical care neurology, CNS infections, headache, dementia, multiple sclerosis, concussion and traumatic brain injury, pediatric neurology, and more. It will help you to better:
- Utilize current evidenced-based practices to improve diagnosis and management of major disease states in neurology
- Discuss neurologic disease utilizing a case-based approach across the age groups
- Recognize the newest therapeutic strategies for common neurologic disorders and complaints
- Identify, articulate and apply ethical principles to the care of patients with complex and challenging neurological disorders
By the end of the session the participant will be able to:
- Describe the epidemiology of AUD and outline current and evolving diagnostic criteria
- Describe challenges to the successful identification of patients with AUD
- Identify the treatment modalities currently available for management of AUD and apply them to patient cases using evidence-based medicine
- Develop strategies for recognizing and improving therapeutic adherence in patients treated for AUD
Alcohol use disorder (AUD), referred to colloquially as alcoholism, is an integration of past terms that have include in past as alcohol dependence or abuse, and may be marked by any one of a number of different symptoms or behaviors that include physical cravings, compulsion, guilt, and frequent consumption over an extended period of time. There are about 7.9 million people in the United States who suffer from the disease, but a fraction – 2.2 million people – seek treatment for it. The number of people who are considered heavy drinkers is about double at somewhere between 15.9 and 17.6 million, and just under a quarter of Americans over age 12 reports having engaged in binge drinking at least once in the last month. Alcohol accounts for over 687,000 emergency department visits by people under age 20 per year, and AUD is estimated to cost $223.5 billion per year. Worldwide, 76.3 million people are estimated to have AUDs, and they account for an annual mortality rate of 1.8 million. AUD is largely undertreated, constituting one gap in care and justifying CME
- Review with 1200 Psychiatry questions
- Access for 12 months
- Earn CME credit while preparing for MOC exams
- Detailed explanations with every question
- Answer practice questions from anywhere, anytime
- Section dedicated to the exam questions most relevant to the boards for quick review
Topics Covered by the Child Psychiatry Board Review Questions:
- Adjustment disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Clinical Science
- Development
- Developmental Disorders
- Disorder due to environmental exposure
- Disruptive behavioral disorders
- Eating disorders
- Elimination disorders
- Mood disorders
- Movement disorders
- Other disorders
- Personality disorders
- Psychotic disorders
- Reactive attachment disorders
- Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
- Somatoform Disorders
- Substance use disorders
Speakers
- George T. Grossberg, MD Samuel W. Fordyce Professor; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
- David Beck, MD Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Topic and Learning Objectives
- Identify different and various forms of agitation among patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
- Review proposed mechanisms underlying agitation in AD and how pharmacologic agents may affect them
- Evaluate body of evidence of current and emerging pharmacologic agents for the management of agitation/aggression in patients with AD
Topics covered
Psychiatric Background: Psychological Development *** Classification Systems *** Psychiatric Examination *** Psychological Testing *** Epidemiology & Genetics
Psychiatric Disorders: Schizophrenia *** Mood Disorders *** Organic mental syndromes *** Anxiety Disorders *** Somatoform Disorders *** Dissociative Disorders *** Personality Disorders *** Sexual Dysfunction *** Sleep Disorders *** Eating Disorders *** Alcohol Abuse *** Substance Abuse
Psychiatric Treatment: Brief Psychotherapy *** Group and Family Therapy *** Behavioral Therapy *** Cognitive Therapy *** Psychopharmacology
Neurosciences: Neuroanatomy *** Neuropharmacology ***Electroencephalography *** Neuroendocrinology ***Neurophysiology *** Neuroimaging
Anatomic Neurology: Neurological Examination *** Central Nervous Disorders *** Psychogenic Disorders *** Cranial and Peripheral Nerves *** Muscular Disorders
Neurologic Symptoms: Dementia, Delirium and Coma *** Aphasia, Apraxia and Agnosia ***Multiple Sclerosis *** Cerebrovascular Disease *** Visual Disturbances *** Neurologic Aspects of Pain *** Movement Disorders *** Headaches and Seizures *** Brain Tumors and Trauma
Specialty Psychiatry: Child Psychiatry *** Adolescent Psychiatry *** Geriatric Psychiatry *** Forensic psychiatry *** Psychiatric Consultation
The Psychiatry Board Review questions provided by BoardVitals exploresmany topics ranging from communication disorders to schizophrenia. The Psych question bank provides over 1600 Questions targeted to the ABPN Board Exam and and the PRITE* (in-service exam). More physicians use Board Vitals for Psychiatry Prep than any other material. Review our Psychiatry Board Review. The most inclusive and advanced Psychiatry Board Review Questions, at a fraction of the cost of board review programs.
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- Over 50 Cases - Completely re-done for 2015
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Seven lectures from ScientiaCME covering various psychiatry and neuropsychiatry topics, including:
- ADHD: Therapeutic Updates and Best Practices - released 7/01/2013 (1 CME Hour)
- Alzheimer Disease andIts Complications: Therapeutic Updates, Best Practices, and Barriers to Care - released 12/21/2015 (1 CME Hour)
- Bipolar disorder: Therapeutic Updates and Best Practices - released 10/1/2015 (0.75 CME hours)
- Treatment and Management of Schizophrenia: Barriers to Care, Therapeutic Updates, and Best Practices - released 4/29/2016 (1 CME Hour)
- Therapeutic Updates and Best Practices in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorders (MDD) - released 4/12/2016 - (1 CME Hour)
- Transcendental Medication Techniquest to Treat and Prevent Stress-Related Disorders - released 2/8/2016 (1 CME Hour)
- Therapeutic Updates, Barriers to Care, and Best Practices in the Treatment of Schizophrenia - released 12/27/2014 (1 CME Hour)