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Courses
In-depth, clinically-focused content to equip you with practical skills to help you meet the challenges of daily practice. Held in a small-group setting, attendance is limited.
Courses are designed to emphasize learning experiences that actively involve participants and include the opportunity for informal exchange with the faculty. Offered in four-hour (half-day) and eight-hour (full-day) sessions, courses either review basic concepts in a special subject area or present advanced material on a circumscribed topic. Participants must purchase tickets to attend.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Borderline Personality Disorder
Director: Lois Choi-Kain, M.D.
8:00 a.m. - Noon
Integrating Technology and Psychiatry
Director: John Luo, M.D.
Talking to and Listening to your Patients about Marijuana and CBD
Director: Henry Levine, M.D.
Treating Complicated Grief in Practice Settings
Director: M. Shear, M.D.
In Front of the Mic: Public Speaking Strategies for Psychiatrists in the Media, Classroom, Statehouse, and Courtroom
Director: Victoria Kelly, M.D.
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder): A Clinical Review and Update
Director: Kathleen Koth, M.D.
Psychiatrists in Recovery and the Recovery of Psychiatry: The Role of Self-Disclosure
Director: Robert Marin, M.D.
Updates in Geriatric Psychiatry
Director: Rajesh Tampi, M.D.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Identifying and Treating Eating Disorders and their Complications
Director: Anne O'melia, M.D.
Fact, Fiction, or Fraud: Improving Clinical Documentation and Avoiding Pitfalls in Electronic Health Record Systems
Director: Seth Powsner, M.D.
Risk Assessment for Violence
Director: Phillip Resnick, M.D.
Neuropsychiatric Masquerades: Medical and Neurological Disorders that Present with Psychiatric Symptoms
Director: Jose Maldonado, M.D.
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
A Systematic Approach to Identification and Management of Treatment Resistant Depression
Director: James Murrough, M.D.
Clinically Relevant Forensic Psychiatry for Non-Forensic Clinicians
Director: Tobias Wasser, M.D.
Join the Movement! An Intensive Hands-On Skills Workshop in Providing Asylum Evaluations to Immigrants Fleeing Torture and Persecution
Director: Shawn Sidhu, M.D.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Global Mental Health: A Training Curriculum
Director: Vivian Pender, M.D.
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Disorders: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Extended (TFP—E)
Director: Eve Caligor, M.D.
The Clinical Assessment of Malingered Mental Illness
Disasters and Mental Health: Helping Your Patients Deal with Adverse Effects of Climate Change, Pandemics, and Mass Violence
Director: Joshua Morganstein, M.D.
QTc Prolongation, ECG Interpretation and Psychotropic Medications: An Expert Skills Course
Director: Margo Funk, M.D.
The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness: The Ins and Outs of Being a Forensic Consultant
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Acute Brain Failure: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management and Sequelae of Delirium
All You Ever Wanted to Know about Clozapine: Basics and Beyond
Director: Robert Cotes, M.D.
Keep Calm and Standardize On: Best Practices for the Care of Youth with Agitation and Aggression and the Pediatric BETA Consensus Guidelines
Director: Nasuh Malas, M.D.
Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Director: Frank Yeomans, M.D.
Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions
Director: Waguih IsHak, M.D.
Imminent Suicide Risk Assessment in High-Risk Individuals Denying Suicidal Ideation or Intent: Introduction and Training
Director: Igor Galynker, M.D.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Director: John Markowitz , M.D.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice
Directors: Richard Bermudes, M.D. and Philip Janicak, M.D.
These in-depth courses are designed to broaden and enhance your professional skills and knowledge in special areas and include applicable publications from American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Director: John Renner, M.D.
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Educational Objectives:
Motivational Interviewing
Director: Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A.
A Primer on First Episode Psychosis for the Practicing Psychiatrist: Keys to Providing Quality Psychiatric Care within this Emerging National Model
Director: Steven Adelshim, M.D.
The Suicidal Patient: Principles and Practice of Assessment, Treatment and Care Management
Director: Kirk Stroshal, Ph.D.
Essential Psychopharmacology
Director: Alan Schatzberg, M.D.