This comprehensive review is designed to help you pass your Psychiatry board exams as well as to update your clinical knowledge base. Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine and board-relevant standards of care, incorporating new concepts and treatments. The course includes lectures that review the entire field of Psychiatry. As a result, it provides a good review for the ABPN Certifying and MOC exams or for physicians in practice wanting a thorough update. The course includes didactic lectures, discussion of clinical vignettes, embedded questions for discussion at the end of each topic, and dedicated question and answer sessions. Materials and discussion emphasize DSM-V-TR vocabulary and definitions. Many of our previous learners found the course provided them with improved diagnostic and testing strategies, a better understanding of all major disease entities relevant to the practice of general Psychiatry, and helped them recognize specific areas of knowledge weakness for self-study.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course each participant will be able to:
- Summarize important aspects of mental development, personality changes, and mental capacity from infancy
through adolescence, adulthood, and late-life - Explain normal neural development and evaluation of neurologic disorders
- Summarize key points in behavioral and social sciences relevant to psychiatry
- Explain the appropriate use of diagnostic procedures and the psychiatric interview to test mental status
- Summarize major diagnostic aspects of all major psychiatric disorders
- Analyze the diagnosis, treatment, and management of all major classifications of psychiatric disorders
- Review epidemiologic findings that influenced public policies
- Appraise the ethical and legal issues important to the practice of psychiatry
