Primary Care Psychiatry

• ADHD treatment: stimulants
• Adverse effects of drugs
• Antidepressants
• Antipsychotics
• Bipolar and anxiety disorders
• Depression and dementia in geriatrics
• Major depression—pharmacologic management
• Psychotropic drug interactions
• Psychotropics and pregnancy

Registration is for non-University of Minnesota family medicine residents, medical students, and community physicians or healthcare professionals. Fees include tuition, syllabus, and access to online course materials for one year.

• Contact:
  Heidi Cerdas Monge, MBA, hcerdasm@umn.edu

Psychotropic Medications During Pregnancy and Postpartum

• Identify the main clinical issues in diagnosing and treating pregnant women with depression or anxiety
• Understand the risks and benefits of prescribing commonly used psychotropic medications during pregnancy
• Understand the concerns patients should understand in deciding to breastfeed while taking psychotropic medications
• Know how to perform an adequate risk/benefit discussion in prescribing treatment for pregnant or nursing women
• Know how to use the Internet and other public resources to facilitate best practices

Anxiety Disorders

• Understand the causes of anxiety symptoms and the different anxiety disorders
• Understand the treatment rationales for different types of anxiety

Depression: What are we Really Treating?

• Understand the dilemmas with the current medical model for treating depression
• Explore the advantages and disadvantages of the dominant US approach in primary care
• Describe what a good clinician might do to evaluate a patient not responding to initial treatment for depression

Antipsychotics in Primary Care

• Understand the mechanisms of action and differential side effects of typical vs. atypical antipsychotics
• Understand the clinical uses of atypicals
• Understand their dosing, side effects, and monitoring required

Major Depression - Pharmacologic Management

• Understand basic biologic mechanisms of depression and antidepressant medications
• Develop assessment strategies for evaluating depressive disorders
• Develop effective strategies for the pharmacologic management of depressive disorders

Bipolar Affective Disorder

• Understand the concept and general diagnostic issues of the bipolar spectrum illnesses
• Review the presentation of these disorders in primary care settings
• Review general pharmacologic strategies for treating bipolar manic and depressive episodes and maintenance therapy
• Understand the potential risks of antidepressant therapy in patients with bipolar spectrum disorders

Differentiating Between Depression and Early Alzheimer's Disease in the Elderly

• Provide an overview of the epidemiology and phenomenology of both dementia and depression in the elderly
• Present methods for differentiating depression versus dementia, emphasizing the overlapping symptoms
• Discuss the importance of executive function in the elderly and its relation to apathy and other behavioral changes
• Review both non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments of agitation, including evidence‐based information on determining when and how to use antipsychotics in the elderly

Neurological Base of ADHD

• Discuss the prevalence and etiology of ADHD
• Recognize the symptoms of ADHD in children and adults and challenges of comorbidity
• Understand different pharmacological treatments of ADHD
• Discuss how to monitor treatment

Antidepressants: Adverse Effects and Interactions

• Review adverse effects of antidepressants
• Compare adverse effects across drug classes in order to create strategies on how to select the correct agent
• Define drug interactions
• List common drug interactions in psychopharmacology