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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

    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.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Talking to and Listening to your Patients about Marijuana and CBD

    Director: Henry Levine, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Treating Complicated Grief in Practice Settings

    Director: M. Shear, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    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.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Psychiatrists in Recovery and the Recovery of Psychiatry: The Role of Self-Disclosure

    Director: Robert Marin, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Updates in Geriatric Psychiatry

    Director: Rajesh Tampi, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Sunday, April 26, 2020

    Identifying and Treating Eating Disorders and their Complications

    Director: Anne O'melia, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Fact, Fiction, or Fraud: Improving Clinical Documentation and Avoiding Pitfalls in Electronic Health Record Systems

    Director: Seth Powsner, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Risk Assessment for Violence

    Director: Phillip Resnick, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    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.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Clinically Relevant Forensic Psychiatry for Non-Forensic Clinicians

    Director: Tobias Wasser, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Join the Movement! An Intensive Hands-On Skills Workshop in Providing Asylum Evaluations to Immigrants Fleeing Torture and Persecution

    Director: Shawn Sidhu, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Monday, April 27, 2020

    Global Mental Health: A Training Curriculum

    Director: Vivian Pender, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Disorders: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Extended (TFP—E)

    Director: Eve Caligor, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    The Clinical Assessment of Malingered Mental Illness

    Director: Phillip Resnick, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Disasters and Mental Health: Helping Your Patients Deal with Adverse Effects of Climate Change, Pandemics, and Mass Violence

    Director: Joshua Morganstein, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    QTc Prolongation, ECG Interpretation and Psychotropic Medications: An Expert Skills Course

    Director: Margo Funk, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness: The Ins and Outs of Being a Forensic Consultant

    Director: Phillip Resnick, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Tuesday, April 28, 2020

    Acute Brain Failure: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management and Sequelae of Delirium

    Director: Jose Maldonado, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    All You Ever Wanted to Know about Clozapine: Basics and Beyond

    Director: Robert Cotes, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    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.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

    Director: Frank Yeomans, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. - Noon

    Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions

    Director: Waguih IsHak, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Imminent Suicide Risk Assessment in High-Risk Individuals Denying Suicidal Ideation or Intent: Introduction and Training

    Director: Igor Galynker, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

    Director: John Markowitz , M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

    Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice

    Directors: Richard Bermudes, M.D. and Philip Janicak, M.D.

    1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

  • Master Courses

    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.

    Saturday, April 25, 2020

    Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Dependence

    Director: John Renner, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

    Educational Objectives:

    1. Discuss the rationale and need for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) of opioid use disorder;
    2. Apply the pharmacological characteristics of opioids in clinical practice;
    3. Describe buprenorphine protocols for all phases of treatment and for optimal patient/treatment matching;
    4. Describe the legislative and regulatory requirements of office-based opioid pharmacotherapy; and
    5. Discuss treatment issues and management of opioid use disorder in adolescents, pregnant women, and patients with acute and/or chronic pain.

    Sunday, April 26, 2020

    Motivational Interviewing

    Director: Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A.

    8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

    Educational Objectives:

    1. Explain the origin of motivational interviewing in the broader context of addiction treatment.
    2. Apply the spirit of MI to engage patients.
    3. Identify and utilize the four metaprocesses to structure clinical conversations about change.
    4. Practice reflections, identify change talk, and apply the core skills of MI.
    5. Integrate the core skills of MI in their clinical practice.

    Monday, April 27, 2020

    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.

    8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

    Educational Objectives:

    1. document the key components of appropriate assessment for early psychosis.
    2. List the components of the Coordinated Specialty Care model.
    3. Understand the role of the psychiatrist as part of the CSC team and in shared decision making.
    4. Explain the additional aspects of the approach to treatment for the adolescent with early psychosis symptoms.

    Monday, April 27, 2020

    The Suicidal Patient: Principles and Practice of Assessment, Treatment and Care Management

    Director: Kirk Stroshal, Ph.D.

    8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

    Educational Objectives:

    1. Understand the different forms of suicidal behavior and their relative prevalence in the general population.
    2. Appreciate the moral, ethical and legal concerns that can unduly influence treatment decisions.
    3. Understand the clinical implications of the risk prediction dilemma.
    4. Apply a learning model of out-patient and/or in-patient intervention for suicidality based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
    5. Know the limitations, risks and indications for using hospitalization as a treatment for suicidality.

    Tuesday, April 28, 2020

    Essential Psychopharmacology

    Director: Alan Schatzberg, M.D.

    8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

    Educational Objectives:

    1. Provide an update on major classes of psychopharmacological agents;
    2. Review recent data on drugs under development—both positive and negative data;
    3. Provide a framework for integrating multiple modalities of treatment; and
    4. Review recent data on devices to treat major disorders.

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