College of Family Physicians of Canada:
Earn up to 7 certified Mainpro+® credits
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This is part 2 of "The Confident Clinician Series"
This program focuses on the science-based step-wise management approach to patients with complicated psychiatric presentations.
If you are interested to learn how to assess, diagnose and engage our most complicated psychiatric patients, visit part 1 of the Confident Clinician Series, which will give you practical, immediately implementable, evidence-based approaches.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Identify "polypharmacy", including current concepts regarding the safe and appropriate prescribing of multiple pharmacological treatments.
- Categorize potential treatment approaches: initiate, optimize, switch, combine and discontinue.
- Appraise common pharmacotherapy myths: what's the evidence to support or refute long-standing barriers to optimal care.
- Manage the evidence-based, step-wise approach to treating patients with multiple psychiatric comorbidities (E.g. bipolar disorder + ADHD/ personality disorder), psychiatric and physical comorbidities (E.g. pain/ cardiac/inflammatory disorders + depression) and concurrent disorders (combined mental illness and substance use disorders).
- Appraise the potential of non-pharmacological approaches to treatment, including neurostimulation, psychotherapy, alternative and complementary treatments and social prescribing.