This course provides an evidence-informed update designed to teach internal medicine physicians practical approaches to recognizing, diagnosing, treating, and triaging patients with commonly encountered psychiatric disorders. Faculty with training and experience in both internal medicine and psychiatry emphasize the importance of a patient-centered approach, motivational interviewing, simple therapeutic techniques, and practical psychopharmacologic approaches that can be efficiently used in medical settings. The course will focus on psychiatric diagnoses prevalent in general medical practice, including major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, trauma-related disorders, substance use disorders, insomnia, and bipolar mood disorders.
This extensive collection of virtual lectures will cover:
- Practical, patient-centered interview strategies to detect treatable mental illness.
- Current best practices for managing psychiatric disorders in primary care and specialty medical settings.
- A practical approach to treating psychiatric conditions in primary care using commonly prescribed and novel psychotropic medications.
- Triage guidelines and communication with psychiatric care providers.
- Motivational interviewing techniques to support patient engagement and behavior change.
Course Directors:
Jane P. Gagliardi, MD, MHS, FACP
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Medicine, Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Robert M. McCarron, MD, DFAPA, FAIHM, ACP Member
Director of Education, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute; Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education; Founding Director, UC Irvine Train New Trainers (TNT) Primary Care Fellowships; Director, Health Education to Advance Leaders in Integrative Medicine (HEAL-IM); Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA
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CME/MOC:
Up to 7
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and MOC Points
Expires July 26, 2029
active
Cost:
Discounted to Members
Format:
Video Recordings
Product:
Internal Medicine Meeting Recordings
ACP's Internal Medicine Meeting Recording packages include video and slide presentations from a curated selection of popular and highly rated sessions delivered during or derived from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting. Trusted, timely content in general internal medicine and the subspecialties is presented by expert faculty; CME and MOC available.
Disclosures
Robert McCarron, DO, ACP Member
Consultant: Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Alkermes, Inc.
All of the above relationships in italics have been mitigated. None of the remaining planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
CME Accreditation and MOC Information
The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American College of Physicians designates this enduring material, Primary Care Psychiatry: Practical Skills for Internal Medicine Physicians, for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of these CME activities, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn 7 medical knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.