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Key Issues Facing Psychiatry: What’s New, Important and Changing
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This meeting will be presented live online on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST and Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST and then available on demand through March 29, 2013.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by....Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Streaming Video Lectures.
Target Audiences...The summit is planned to meet the continuing medical education needs of psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists, genetic counselors, psychiatric social workers, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals involved in caring for mental health patients.
Educational material will be updated...March 29, 2012.
Financial Support...Otsuka.
Expiration of CME credit...March 29, 2013.

Key Issues Facing Psychiatry: What’s New, Important and Changing will be presented live online on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST and Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST and then available on demand through March 29, 2013.
Topics include:
• Understanding DSM-5
• Managing Personality Disorder in Medical Settings
• Deciphering Bipolar Disease and Its Mimics
• Incorporating the Implications of Genetics in Psychiatry
• Evolving Neurobiology of Schizophrenia
• Appreciating the Complex Set of Conditions Involved in the Autism Spectrum
• Understanding Depression as a Neuro-Inflammatory Condition
• Comprehending Dementia Through Neuro-Imaging
• Evaluating New Molecules and Therapies in Psychopharmacology
After participating in Key Issues Facing Psychiatry, you will be able to:
• Describe significant changes to practice based on an understanding of the DSM-5.
• Better identify a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
• Explain the role of genetics in mental health.
• Discuss the implications of mental health conditions on an understanding of genetics.
• Evaluate the impact of personality disorder in medical management.
• Apply improved skills in managing adolescent addictions.
• Implement a coherent approach to psychiatric diagnosis.
• Recognize the neurobiology of schizophrenia in patient evaluation.
• Incorporate the complex set of conditions involved in autism in practice.
• Better manage chronic pain.
• Demonstrate an appreciation for the linkages between pain and depression.
• Display an understanding of depression as a neuro-inflammatory condition.
• Recognize the role of neuro-imaging in dementia.
• Choose among appropriate new psychopharmacologic therapies.

Genetics & Your Practice Online
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...Total of 3 hours.
Awarded by....Swedish Medical Center.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type....Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....FP, PED, OB-GYN.
Educational material last updated....2005.
Financial Support...March of Dimes, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
CME Credit Expires...12/31/2011.

The cases offer you the opportunity to work through a simulated clinical setting on how to integrate genetics into patient care. The site has three CME topics: Genetic Testing and Screening, Family Health and Social History, and Referral to Genetic Services. Each module can be customized by the patient type: preconception/prenatal, infant/children, and adolescent/adult. In addition, the Resources and Tools section (not for CME) provides checklists, risk tables, fact sheets and questionnaires.

Harvard Medical School Online CME
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 90 courses totaling about 200 hours. (Most courses are 1 to 5 hours).
Awarded by....Harvard Medical School.
Cost for Credit......$20 per hour. (The review courses cost about $10 per hour.
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...Genetics, Geriatrics, Multiple Specialties.
Educational material last updated...2011.
Financial Support...None Stated.

There are 25 activities concerned with genetics and 10 in geriatrics. Most of the remaining courses are in general medicine and medical subspecialties.

Medical Genetics: Translating Genes Into Health
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...6.0.
Awarded by....American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG).
Cost..........$20.
Instruction Type....Streaming Video (Animation)
Target Audiences....GENETICS.
Educational material last updated....Not Stated.
Financial Support...Roche.
CME Credit Expires...Not Stated.

ACMG Basics: Genetics for Providers covers:
• Introduction to Genetics;
• Finding Genes Associated with Diseases;
• Genetics of Common Complex Disorders;
• Pharmacogenetics; and
• Ethical, Legal and Social Issues.

NEJM Weekly CME Program
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours ...One per exam, three per week. (Total of about 140 hours now available).
Awarded by....Massachusetts Medical Society.
Cost..........Free to subscribers to NEJM; $15 (or $100 for bundles of ten) for non-subscribers).
Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audiences....FP, IM, IM subspecialists.
Educational material last updated....Weekly.
Financial Support...None Stated.

Each week, three articles in the New England Journal of Medicine have a companion CME exam available online. You can earn up to one CME credit for each exam successfully completed. NEJM subscribers receive 20 online exams per year as part of their subscription. Non-subscribers may pay on an hourly basis ($15 per single credit or $100 for 10 exams) and read the articles and take the exams completely online.

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