Comprehensive Review of Psychiatry: Enhance Your Knowledge and Skills

This in-depth online continuing medical education (CME) program is designed to emphasize the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders in adult, adolescent, and child patients. The program covers a wide range of topics, including psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and interventional treatments, with a focus on high-quality patient care, ethical standards, sensitivity, compassion, and health equity.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this comprehensive review of psychiatry, you will be able to:

• Describe medication and psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia
• Differentiate between bipolar depression and unipolar depression
• Recognize the symptoms and causes of postpartum depression
• Discuss the diagnosis and management of autism spectrum disorder
• Identify generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and separation anxiety disorder
• Summarize strategies for challenging patient encounters
• List the symptoms and behaviors of substance use disorder
• Explain the methods used in cognitive behavioral therapy alone or in combination with other therapies
• Name the intended patient outcomes when using electroconvulsive therapy
• Identify therapeutic options for treatment-resistant depression
• Recognize the symptoms of anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorders
• Summarize the treatment challenges in obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Define the three clusters of personality disorders

Intended Audience

This activity is intended for psychiatrists or psychiatry residents who want to improve their knowledge and skills in providing high-quality patient care.

Topics and Speakers

The comprehensive review of psychiatry covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Approach to the Patient: Screening, Evaluation, and Diagnosis – Antoine Douaihy, MD
• Psychiatric Disorders:
  • Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders – Sanya Virani, MD
  • Depressive Disorders – Gina Perez, MD
  • Bipolar and Related Disorders in Youth – Rasim Somer Diler, MD, DFAACAP
  • Anxiety Disorders – Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt, MD
  • Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders – Robert Hudak, MD
  • Trauma and Stress Related Disorders – Brigitte Khoury, PhD
  • Personality Disorders – Vint Blackburn, MD
  • Impulse Control and Related Disorders – Antoine Douaihy, MD
  • Dissociative Disorders – Pamela R. Fuller, PhD
  • Major Neurocognitive Disorders – LalithKumar K. Solai, MD
  • Catatonia – Priya Gopalan, MD, FACLP
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders – Piper Carroll, MD
  • Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders – Sarah Lim, MD
  • Sleep Disorders – Hrayr Attarian, MD
  • Suicide Epidemiology and Risk Assessment – Gretchen L. Haas, PhD
  • Violence – Sara G. West, MD
  • Substance Use Disorders – Jody Glance, MD
  • Gambling Disorder – Claudia Chapa, MD
  • Sexual Side Effects of Psychotropics – Jin Cheng, MD
  • Postpartum Disorders – Eydie L. Moses-Kolko, MD
  • Psychiatric Manifestations of Common Medical Conditions – Pierre Azzam, MD
  • Prolonged Grief in Youth – Nadine M. Melhem, PhD
  • Intellectual Disabilities: Clinical and Research Update – Antonio Hardan, MD
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder – Antonio Hardan, MD
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Across the Lifespan: Children, Adolescents, and Adults – Gil Hoftman, MD, PhD
  • Anxiety and Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents – Gil Hoftman, MD, PhD
  • Psychiatric Issues in LGBTQIA+ Population – Morgan Faeder, MD, PhD
  • Challenging Patient Encounters – Antoine Douaihy, MD
• Treatments:
  • Psychopharmacology:
    • Antidepressant Pharmacology – Megha Patel, PharmD, BCPS
    • Mood Stabilizers – Megha Patel, PharmD, BCPS
    • Antipsychotics – K. N. Roy Chengappa, MD
    • Anxiolytics and Sedative-Hypnotic Agents – Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt, MD
    • Pharmacological Treatments of Substance Use Disorders and Gambling Disorder – Julie A. Kmiec, DO
    • Pharmacological Treatments of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – Rebecca Miller, MD
    • Treatment of Major Neurocognitive Disorders – LalithKumar K. Solai, MD
    • Pharmacological Treatments of Feeding and Eating Disorders – Piper Carroll, MD
  • Psychotherapy:
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Jennifer E. Wildes, PhD
    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy – Stephanie Stepp, PhD
    • Brief Psychodynamic and Interpersonal Therapy – Henry Driscoll, MD
    • Motivational Interviewing: Practices from the Heart – Antoine Douaihy, MD
    • Couples and Family Therapy – Jay Lebow, PhD
    • Positive Psychiatry – Dennis C. Daley, MD
  • Other Treatments:
    • Management of Treatment Resistant Depression – Holly A. Swartz, MD
    • Update on Electroconvulsive Therapy – Carmen Andreescu, MD
    • Psychedelic Drugs in Psychiatry: Novel Treatment Paradigms in Mental Health – Danilo De Gregorio, PharmD, PhD
    • Medical Marijuana – Michael Hsu, MD
• Special Topics:
  • Social Determinants of Mental Health and Mental Health Inequities – Daniel Salahuddin, MD, MPH
  • Integrating Medical and Psychiatric Care – Alex Israel, MD
  • Telepsychiatry: Potential and Challenges – Matthew Conlon, MD
  • Palliative Care Psychiatry – Pierre Azzam, MD
  • Ethical and Legal Issues:
    • Legal and Ethical Aspects of Psychiatric Care – Sanya Virani, MD, MPH
    • The Impact of Burnout on Patient Care and Psychiatrists – Sansea Jacobson, MD

Date of Original Release: September 30, 2023