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Expert clinician-educators will provide a practical, evidence-based update for internal medicine physicians on approaches to interviewing patients with the goal of recognizing, diagnosing, treating, and/or referring patients with commonly encountered mental health disorders. Faculty with training in both internal medicine and psychiatry will emphasize the importance of a patient-centered approach, motivational interviewing, and quick cognitive behavioral techniques that can be quickly used in medical settings. A practical overview of psychopharmacology strategies in the general medical setting will also be discussed. Faculty will focus on psychiatric diagnoses that are prevalent in general medical practice, including major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, trauma-related disorders, substance use disorders, chronic pain, and bipolar mood disorders, with a goal of improving recognition, confidence in management, and effectiveness of referral. 

This high-yield collection of virtual lectures will cover:

• updates on practical patient-centered interview strategies to detect treatable mental illness
• current best practices regarding management of depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders in primary care and specialty medical settings
• practical approaches to prescribing and monitoring common psychotropic medications, with a goal of facilitating management as well as communication with psychiatric care providers
  • Antidepressants in medical practice 
  • Antipsychotics in medical practice 
  • Drug–drug interactions relevant to psychotropic medications 
• an overview and examples of the use of motivational interviewing in a busy medical practice

Course Directors:

Robert M. McCarron, DO, Member
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Director of Education, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education, Director, UCI Train New Trainers Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship, Divisions of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Medical Education, and Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA

Jane P. Gagliardi, MD, MHS, F91ºÚÁÏÍø
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

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