Modules in progress and coming next

Last updated: 04/01/2012

 

Coming next:

Huntington's disease

 

Modules in development:

 

Good clinical care
  • Assessing spiritual needs
  • Practical application of neuroimaging in clinical psychiatry
  • Smoking cessation
  • Home treatment in acute psychiatry
  • EPSEs – etiology, manifestations, differential diagnoses, and management
  • Basic interpretation of blood results in psychiatry
  • Delirium – assessment and management
  • Psychiatric intensive care
  • How patient centred are you?: shared decision making in clinical practice

 

Child and adolescence
  • Using the 3Di diagnostic interview to assess autism and Asperger's syndrome
  • Self-harm in adolescents
  • Prescription and monitoring of stimulants for children with ADHD
  • Transferring care between age-specific services
  • Working with the consequences of child abuse
  • Ethical and legal challenges in CAMHS – Scottish legislation
  • Tourettes & tic disorders: assessment and treatment

 

Old age psychiatry
  • Drugs in Alzheimer's dementia 
  • The optimal pharmacological treatment for advanced dementia
  • Palliative care in dementia
  • Subcortical dementias
  • Elder abuse
  • Fronto temporal dementia (FTD)
  • Anorexia of ageing

 

General adult psychiatry
  • Morbid jealousy
  • Relapse prevention strategies in bipolar affective disorder
  • Short-term risk assessment
  • Atypical antipsychotic medication and the metabolic syndrome
  • Parental mental health – keeping the family in mind
  • The prescription of electroconvulsive therapy
  • Comparative effectiveness of antipsychotic medication
  • Long-term outcomes of schizophrenia
  • Improving standards of care in in-patient units
  • Gay and lesbian mental health
  • Pharmacological approaches to bipolar depression
  • DVLA and mental illness

  • Getting psychiatric patients into employment

  • Paraphilias

  • First-episode psychosis

  • Overview of sleep physiology and sleep disorders

  • Excessive daytime sleepiness

  • Parasomnias

  • Insomnia

  • Clozapine and its core use in treatment resistant schizophrenia

  • Coming off medication

  • Paranoid personality disorder

  • The mental health of military veterans

  • Pharmacological approaches to mania

  • Diagnosis and management of autism in adults

  • Obstructive sleep apnoea
  • Neurosurgery and neuromodulation as treatments for mental disorder

  • Motivational interviewing
  • Occupational psychiatry
  • Improving lithium prescribing
  • Practical aspects of CBT in psychosis
  • Asking for a psychotherapy opinion in General Psychiatry
  • Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia
  • Use of the Mental Health Act in eating disorders
  • Social functioning in schizophrenia
  • Theories of Organisation and Change
  • History of Quality Improvement in Health Care
  • Quality Improvement Methods 1
  • Standards and Guidelines

 

Substance misuse
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Buprenorphine: its role in withdrawal and substitute prescribing
  • Safe substitute prescribing
  • GBL: what psychiatrists need to know
  • Stimulants: treatment approaches and organising services

 

Rehabilitation
  • The UK and international perspectives on the development of recovery-based services and practitioners 
  • Rehabilitation in psychiatry: basic concepts
  • Getting psychiatric patients into employment

 

Liaison psychiatry
  • Factitious disorders
  • Psychiatric assessment for liver transplantation
  • Liaison psychiatry in the management of diabetes
  • Medically unexplained symptoms

 

Forensic psychiatry
  • Stalking
  • Morbid jealousy
  • Forensic aspects of learning disability
  • Short-term risk assessment

  • PTSD and its management
  • Forensic risk assessment of violence
  • Psychiatric defences to homicide
  • Sexual and domestic victimisation
  • Coping with a coroner's inquest: a psychiatrist's guide
  • Violence risk assessment in neuropsychiatric disorders

 

Psychotherapy
  • Nidotherapy
  • Solution-focused brief therapy
  • Introducing and delivering CBT self-help in clinical services
  • Working with the consequences of child abuse

  • Compassion-focused therapy

  • Family therapy

  • Asking for a psychotherapy opinion in General Psychiatry

  • Practical aspects of CBT in psychosis

 

Psychiatry of learning disabilities

 

  • Mood disorders in adults with learning disabilities

  • Forensic aspects of learning disability

  • Language and deafness

  • ADHD and Psychiatric co-morbidity

 

Neuropsychiatry
  • Neurogenesis: implications for psychiatry
  • Huntington's disease
  • Neuropsychiatry of movement disorders
  • Non-epileptic seizures
  • Psychogeneic non-epileptic attacks
  • Fronto temporal dementia (FTD) 
  • Violence risk assessment in neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Tourettes & tic disorders: assessment and treatment

 

Perinatal psychiatry
  • Infanticide
  • The assessment and management of postnatal depression
  • Psychotropic prescribing in pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • Aetiology and clinical features of Puerperal Psychosis
  • Management and prevention of Puerperal Psychosis
  • Prescribing during lactation 

 

Maintaining good medical practice
  • Confidentiality and the needs of carers for information
  • Values-based practice
  • Detention in hospital
  • Consent to treatment
  • Use of the Mental Health Act in eating disorders

 

Teaching, training, appraising and assessing
  • Understanding and evaluating clinical trials
  • Workplace-based assessments
  • Problem psychiatrists and what should be covered in supervision
  • Becoming a consultant
  • Teaching communication skills to students and trainees
  • Teaching psychiatry through film
  • Teaching clinical psychiatry 

 

Relationships with patients
  • Professional ethics and sexual boundary violations
  • Dealing with complaints and how to learn from them
  • How patient centred are you?: shared decision making in clinical practice

 

Working with colleagues
  • Mentoring
  • An introduction to leadership for busy psychiatrists 
  • Interpersonal dynamics and multidisciplinary teamwork

 

IT/informatics
  • Opportunities and risks in e-therapy
Psychiatry and cultural diversity
  • Cultural factors in psychosis
  • Depression in migrants and ethnic minorities

     

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