When you look at the agenda for the in-person 2026 APA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, it is easy to see that there’s education for every level of psychiatry, from students to lifelong learners.

No matter where you are in terms of career level or experience, you can find knowledge and skills to level up your clinical practice.

The paid Master Courses are full-day (eight hour), in-depth, clinically focused content to equip you with practical skills to help you meet the challenges of daily practice in special areas.

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• 2026 Psychiatry Review (Part 1) - This carefully designed master course will allow medical students, residents, fellows and early career psychiatrists an opportunity to review critical concepts in a variety of core subjects in psychiatry. Topics related to normal development, psychopathology, diagnostic methods, neuropsychiatric concepts, psychiatric treatment approaches, ethics and forensics, will be reviewed from a clinical standpoint.

Sunday, May 17, 2026

• CBT in the Care of Complex Patients - This course is designed to help practitioners employ evidence-based and clinically-relevant CBT interventions for complex and chronic patients with persistent depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis and co-occurring medical and psychiatric illnesses.
• Addiction Psychopharmacology - The aim of this course is to provide an overview of pharmacotherapies for substance use disorders that psychiatrists can utilize in their clinical practices. We will cover both well-established pharmacotherapies, as well as present data on (and approaches to using) emerging pharmacotherapies. An overview organized by substance of misuse will be followed by a case discussion intended to consolidate the information in a practical example of pharmacotherapies for substance use disorders in action.
• Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Ketamine and Esketamine - This master course provides practicing psychiatrists with comprehensive training in ketamine, esketamine, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for resistant psychiatric conditions.

Monday, May 18, 2026

• Clinical Psychopharmacology - This course will review the current status and the anticipated changes in the field in a series of lectures with questions and answers as well as breakout sessions at the end of the formal presentations. The Course will include presentations on the treatment of depression; management of bipolar disorder; psychopharmacology of post-traumatic stress disorder; treatment of patients with schizophrenia; pharmacologic approaches to children and adolescents; and the treatment of insomnia and other sleep disorders.
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - The presentation will update six important clinical domains relevant to practicing psychiatrists including the evaluation and treatment of ADHD (Dr. Andrea Spencer), anxiety disorders (Dr. Jeffrey Strawn), OCD and related disorders and tic disorders (Dr. John Walkup), autism spectrum disorders (Dr. Christopher McDougle), major depression (Dr. Karen Dineen Wagner, and lastly, gender dysphoria (Dr. Aron Janssen).

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

• Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill: A Practical Update Extending from Classic Complexities to the Newest Agents - The session will review basic principles of psychopharmacology and their practical application and then focus on key clinical scenarios, including, management of psychotropics in liver, kidney, heart, lung, GI and neurological disease; management of psychotropics in the peri-operative period; specialized considerations for the bariatric surgery patient; and psychotropic-associated risks of hyperprolactinemia and osteoporosis, among others.
• Clinical Sleep Medicine for the Psychiatrist - The goal of this course is to provide psychiatrists with a greater understanding of sleep disorders and to improve their capacity to diagnose and treat these conditions, particularly in a psychiatric setting. It will cover diagnosis and treatment of common sleep problems and disorders in children and adults with psychiatric disorders.

Sign Up to Secure Your Spot

You can add a paid Master Course ($399) while completing your registration for the in-person Annual Meeting. Attendance is limited. Plus, your paid master course registration includes applicable publications from American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

If you have already registered, visit the Registration Resource Center to add a Paid Master Course to your registration.