Harvard Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update 2024

Psychiatric Consultation in Medical and Surgical Settings

• Consultation-liaison psychiatry and its role in modern medical care
• Psychiatric assessment in general hospital and surgical settings
• Psychosocial formulation for complex medical patients
• Capacity assessment, ethical issues, and legal considerations
• Management of agitation and behavioral emergencies
• Psychiatric emergencies including catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and serotonin syndrome
• Suicide risk assessment and acute psychiatric management in emergency care settings

Cardiac, Critical Care and Delirium Psychiatry

• Cardiac considerations for consultation-liaison psychiatry
• QTc prolongation and psychiatric medication risk management
• Risk stratification for challenging medical-psychiatric cases
• Critical care psychiatry in ICU settings
• Delirium pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment
• Psychiatric care of medically unstable patients
• Interdisciplinary management of psychiatric symptoms in critical illness

Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry

• Psychopharmacologic considerations during pregnancy
• Management of substance use disorders in pregnancy
• Premenstrual dysphoric disorder and menopause-related psychiatric concerns
• Risk-benefit planning for psychiatric medication use
• Women’s mental health in medical psychiatry practice
• Integrated care for psychiatric and medical conditions across the reproductive life cycle

Trauma, Burn Care, Transplant and Complex Hospital Psychiatry

• Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation in transplant settings
• Care of complicated burn and trauma patients
• Trauma-informed care in hospital settings
• Psychiatric assessment of medically complex patients
• Team-based care for high-risk inpatient populations
• Psychiatric support for patients undergoing major medical or surgical interventions

Pain, Addiction and Substance Use in Medical Settings

• Interface of pain and addiction in consultation-liaison psychiatry
• Management of substance use disorders in the medical setting
• Clinical counseling around medical cannabis use
• Psychiatric complications of substance use in hospitalized patients
• Patient-centered strategies for addiction-related care
• Interdisciplinary approaches to pain, substance use, and psychiatric symptoms

Psycho-Oncology and End-of-Life Psychiatry

• Foundations of psycho-oncology in medical psychiatry
• Psychological health in patients with hematologic malignancies
• Management of psychiatric symptoms near the end of life
• Neurocognitive effects related to cancer treatment
• Addressing spirituality and meaning in oncology patients
• Supporting patients and families through complex oncologic illness

GI, Endocrine, Autoimmune and Infectious Disease Psychiatry

• Psychiatric disorders in gastrointestinal diseases
• Endocrine and metabolic disorders from a medical psychiatry perspective
• Inflammation, autoimmune disease, and psychiatric illness
• Neuropsychiatric symptoms in HIV and other infectious disorders
• Pharmacologic considerations in medically complex infectious disease patients
• Integrated care for psychiatric symptoms related to systemic illness

Neuropsychiatry, Cognition and Functional Symptoms

• Functional neurocircuitry and neuroanatomy of psychiatric symptoms
• Neurocognitive impairment and dementia assessment
• Clinical principles for bedside neuropsychiatric evaluation
• Psychiatric considerations in epilepsy and stroke
• Neuropsychiatry of movement disorders
• Assessment and management of functional neurologic and somatoform disorders

This course is best suited for psychiatrists, consultation-liaison psychiatrists, specialty physicians, primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, psychologists, residents, fellows, and healthcare professionals caring for medically complex psychiatric patients.

Topics include consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychiatric consultation, capacity assessment, agitation, catatonia, delirium, suicide risk, critical care psychiatry, transplant psychiatry, trauma-informed care, substance use disorders, pain and addiction, women’s mental health, psycho-oncology, neurocognitive disorders, functional neurologic symptoms, infectious disease psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry.

Yes. The course is highly relevant for clinicians working in inpatient medicine, emergency departments, critical care, oncology, transplant, neurology, and consultation-liaison psychiatry settings.

No. CME points and certificates are not included with this course.

Yes. This product is provided as recorded course access so you can review the material at your own pace.

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