Courses

Course and Master Course Listings

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.