Focus Psychiatry Review - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890423466 ISBN 13: 9780890423462

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 2011

Synopsis

FOCUS Psychiatry Review, Volume 2, contains 400 new board-type multiple-choice questions derived from material in the annual FOCUS Self-Assessment Examinations that can help psychiatrists prepare for examinations and identify areas for further study. These new questions, developed by the FOCUS Self-Assessment Editorial board, are consistent in form and process with the questions used by high-stakes examinations. They cover important clinical areas of psychiatric practice and closely follow the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) outline of topics for the recertification examination in psychiatry. FOCUS Psychiatry Review is designed to test current knowledge and its clinical application. The workbook is flexible in format, allowing readers to use the educational approach that works best for them. Readers can review resource materials prior to answering questions, or they can use the workbook to review the references listed in the critiques after scoring test sections. The workbook will be useful for anyone committed to lifelong learning in the field practicing psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, and psychiatrists preparing for examinations. APA is accredited by ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. APA designates this educational activity for a maximum of 50 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Program start date: February 2011 Program end date: February 2014

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"If you're like me and prefer active to passive learning, American Psychiatric Publishing's FOCUS Psychiatry Review provides an innovative and enjoyable pathway for learning and reviewing key topics in contemporary clinical psychiatry. Each of the multiple choice options is discussed in detail, so learners are taught why answers are correct or incorrect. Ideally suited for those reviewing for American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certification and recertification examinations, these exercises also offer engaging ways for all psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners to stay up-to-date."--Joel Yager, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Education and Academic Affairs, University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles

"FOCUS Psychiatry Review is a comprehensive set of questions that covers all main topics of psychiatric practice. It is an excellent set of practice questions for the now routine ABPN recertification test that psychiatrists are required to take. In addition to its brief but informative explanation of the best answer to each question, it also provides a good list of additional resources for further study. Every question has current references, from the last 10-15 years, for review and some are quite extensive. For instance, question 48 about chronic severe major depression cites 8 published articles for further review that include both national and international literature. This is a through review that will be an excellent resource for current information to both established and newly trained psychiatrists."--Michele T. Pato, M.D., Associate Dean of Academic Scholarship and Professor of Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; Research Professor, Washington, D.C. Veterans Hospital; and Professor, SUNY Upstate.

"Drs. Hales and Rapaport and their Editorial Board have once again shown FOCUS to be the premier lifelong learning instrument in psychiatry. With questions from genetics to dealing with interpreters in the clinical setting, this review will help us all dig deeper for the science and the subtleties that make our profession unique and great."--Richard K. Harding, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina

About the Author

Deborah J. Hales, M.D., is Director of the Division of Education at the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia. Mark Hyman Rapaport, M.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and The Polier Endowed Chair in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and Vice Chair and Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0890423466
• ISBN 13: 9780890423462
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 219
• Editor: Hales Deborah J. M.D., Rapaport Mark Hyman M.D.