Psychiatry CME

There is a huge quantity of CME material in varying formats.

This includes:
• Classes (Interactive presentations that allow you to learn at your own pace);
• Lectures (with slide presentations).
• CME From The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (each activity includes multiple articles).
• CME From The Primary Care Companion (each activity from includes a PDF of one or more articles).
• Supplements to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (most offer CME credit).
• Supplements to The Primary Care Companion (offer CME credit, and the full text is available free online).

Target Audience: Psychiatrists

Individual subscribers to JAMA Psychiatry and AMA members may participate in JAMA Psychiatry CME.

You will find a wide selection of Psychiatry topics including:
PTSD, cognitive processing therapy, depression, opioid withdrawal, and more.

Target Audience: Psychiatrists

The bulk of the CME activities on this website is in Psychiatry. You will also find CME in Neurology ,Oncology, and several other specialties.

Target Audience: Psychiatrists, Neurologists, Oncologists

CME activities of special interest to psychiatrists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:

CONFERENCE COVERAGE – Reports of advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.

CLINICAL UPDATE – Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE- Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

CME-LIVE – Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.

CLINICAL BRIEFS – Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each

JOURNAL CME – Articles selected from a wide selection of peer-reviewed journals.
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.

INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format.

CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

Target Audience: Psychiatrists

The site offers activities in a wide variety of medical and psychiatric topics.

Some popular activities include:
• Mature Mood Matters: New and Emerging Developments in Geriatric Depression
• Technologies to Advance the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
• RLS for RLS: Resources, Learnings, and Strategies for Improving Outcomes in Restless Legs Syndrome
• Improving Medication Adherence & Outcomes in Transplant Recipients: Strategies to Improve Medication Adherence
• Improving Medication Adherence and Outcomes in Transplant Recipients: The Impact of Medication Nonadherence

Target Audience: Multiple Specialties, especially Psychiatrists

Some popular offerings include:
• Don’t You (Forget About Me): Lithium in Contemporary Psychiatry
• Defusing the Danger of Drug Interactions With Psychoactive Medications
• 43-Year-Old Woman With Refractory Depression and a Fear of Medication Side Effects
• 69-Year-Old Woman With Dysthymia and Severe Seasonal Depression
• 53-Year-Old Man With Treatment-Resistant Depression and Pain

Target Audience: Psychiatrists

Psychiatric Times covers many topics related to Psychiatry. Some examples of titles include:
• A Guide to Applying Rating Scales in Clinical Psychiatry;
• The Implications of Chronobiology for Psychiatry;
• The Use of Antidepressants in the Substance-Abusing Population;
• Assessing Protective Factors Against Suicide: Questioning Assumptions;
• Understanding and Treating Bipolar Depression; and

Target Audience: Psychiatrists

This free Psychiatry CME course features two activities and offers 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

After completing this course, you will better be able to:

• Understand the impact of quality measures on clinical practice, and the benefit of adhering to evidence-based guidelines in care for patients with MDD.

This free Psychiatry course features 2 activities and offers 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

After completing this course, you will better be able to:

• Assess the etiology, risk factors, and comorbidities associated with binge eating disorder and their relation to weight gain and obesity.
• Apply evidence-based diagnostic criteria to differentially diagnose binge eating disorder.
• Incorporate the use of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, and pharmacotherapy as needed, for the safe and effective treatment of binge eating disorder.

This free Psychiatry CME program features 2 activities and offers 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

After completing this course, you will better be able to:

• Employ current screening and diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorders.
• Address substance abuse disorders and medical comorbidities in BD patients by introducing coordinated care across providers.
• Utilize self-efficacy scores and HQRoL measures to identify patients with functional disability or at risk of functional disability.
• Apply clinical decision-making strategies to address non-adherence including the potential role of long acting injectable antipsychotics.