Year in Review: 2016 CMEs
Here is a year's worth of CMEs you can take right now.
Here is a year's worth of free CMEs you can take right now. Each respective slide links to its corresponding article. The end of each article links to the test. Good luck!
JANUARY
An overview of the interface between HIV/AIDS infection and mental illness.
Mental Health and HIV/AIDS
FEBRUARY
A focus on the differential of CNS disorders that present with neuropsychiatric symptoms, their presentations, and guidelines for treatment.
Neuropsychiatric Masquerades: Diagnosis and Treatment
MARCH
A focus on QTc monitoring in patients receiving psychotropics, especially when multiple medications are prescribed.
QTc Prolongation Associated With Psychotropics: Therapeutic Considerations
APRIL
Patients with residual symptoms of depression may continue to experience significant occupational and social impairment. The focus of this article is on the residual burden that so often remains after remission is achieved.
Adjunctive Treatment Options for Patients With Residual Symptoms of Depression
MAY
Broaching the subject of changing behaviors can be daunting. Motivational interviewing may make these conversations easier.
Using Motivational Interviewing to Improve Health Behaviors in Psychotic Patients
JUNE
What are the most effective assessment practices for ASD during the developmental stages of early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and adulthood?
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Psychiatry: Update on Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations
JULY
The authors suggest what may be a way forward for thinking about the conceptualization of personality disorder.
Update on Diagnostic Issues for Borderline Personality Disorder
AUGUST
What are the effects of sleep apnea on depression--and depression on sleep apnea? Insights here.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Depression: Issues for Psychiatrists
SEPTEMBER
Here's a deep dive into possible mechanisms by which viruses may contribute to mental illness.
The Virus Connection: How Viruses Affect Psychiatric Pathologies
OCTOBER
The assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions in which persistent pain is a feature despite lack of evidence of a pathological cause are reviewed in this article.
Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Aspects of Chronic Pain: Clinical Implications, Solutions
NOVEMBER
The history of biofeedback, the use of quantitative EEG (QEEG) to develop protocols to target symptoms associated with psychiatric disorders, and the use of more advanced forms of neurofeedback.
Neurofeedback: Significance for Psychiatry
DECEMBER
Recommendations for combining diagnostic or therapeutic approaches from biomedicine and Asian healing traditions for the management of mental illness are also discussed.
Integrating Biomedicine and Asian Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities