trending Medical education topic: Mental Health CME Topics 

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Does your medical staff need education on topics in mental health? We’ve got you covered! Below, you’ll find a list of trending mental health topics your medical staff might be interested in. To schedule a lecture on any of these subjects, don’t hesitate to contact our office at 877-505-4777 or email us at info@speakersnetwork.com.

“Suicide Detection”

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate increased knowledge of suicide detection
• Apply the latest skills to detect suicide
• Improve patient care for suicidal patients

“OCD: Diagnosis and Treatment”

Learning Objectives:

• Review the DSM criteria for OCD
• Understand the core clinical symptoms of OCD
• Discuss the evidence base and studies to date of pharmacological and other interventions for OCD

“Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders”

Learning Objectives:

• Review and incorporate updated practice guidelines and evidence-based practice recommendations in general internal medicine and internal medicine subspecialties
• Summarize recent advances in medical research
• Apply strategies to recognize, diagnose, and manage medical conditions encountered in practice
• Employ strategies to prevent disease and promote health
• Identify and address health disparities that could negatively impact patient care within the clinical encounter

“Anxiety Disorders for the Primary Care Physician”

Learning Objectives:

• Describe anxiety as it may present in patients in primary care settings 
• Gain knowledge of DSM5 criteria for anxiety disorders 
• Become aware of screening and assessment tools that can be used to evaluate anxiety symptoms by primary care providers 
• Identify safe and effective treatments for managing anxiety in the primary care setting 

“Management and Referral for Appropriate Treatment of Patients with or at Risk of Developing Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders”

Learning Objectives:

• Examine the epidemiology of substance use disorders
• Manage substance use disorders by employing best practices in addiction pharmacotherapy 
• Integrate recent regulatory reform guidelines into hospital-based assessment and management of opioid use disorder

“Suicide: Losing a Patient or Colleague”

Learning Objectives:

• Delineate up-to-date facts about suicide in America
• Discuss common emotional and behavioral reactions after losing a patient or healthcare colleague to suicide
• Describe approaches to take in reaching out to grieving families and others
• Itemize steps and actions that are helpful to regain equilibrium and promote growth in the aftermath of suicide

“Major Depression and Its Treatment”

Learning Objectives:

• Review the key concepts, including the phenomenology of depression and suicide
• Understand the date on suicide prevalence nationally
• Discuss options for treatment

“Primary Care Treatment of Depression”

Learning Objectives:

• Apply guidelines for screening and diagnosing depression in primary care
• Apply practice guidelines for the treatment of patients with depression
• Identify new and alternate therapeutic options for depression

“Treating the Elderly Patient with Depression and Insomnia”

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the causes of sleep loss and depression in the elderly
• Apply guidelines for screening and diagnosing depression and insomnia 
• Identify current and emerging pharmacotherapeutic treatments for management of depression and insomnia 
• Employ a treatment plan for a special patient to optimize safety and efficacy
• Describe barriers to care associated with treating patients with depression and insomnia and identify any biases to the treatment of elderly

“Bipolar Disorder”

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder and the role the neurotransmitters play in them
• Describe the benefits and risks of pharmacotherapy for patients presenting with bipolar disorder and take them into account when formulating treatment plans for patients
• Recommend therapy changes in patients with bipolar disorder who are unable to tolerate a prescribed treatment
• Identify barriers to care in patients with bipolar disorder and develop strategies to decrease them

“Impaired and Disruptive Behavior- Prevention & Intervention”

Learning Objectives:

• Identify what determines an “impaired and disruptive patient”
• Discuss feelings generated when working with a difficult patient
• Understand approaches to impaired and disruptive physicians
• Identify skills, tools, and resources to use when working with an impaired and disruptive patient 

“Psychiatry for the Non-Psychiatrist”

Learning Objectives:

• Identify symptoms and utilize the latest diagnostic tools to assess mental disorders
• Recognize how to handle the management of a patient’s acute agitation and exacerbation
• Refer patients appropriately to a psychiatric specialist or community resource
• Recognize how cultural factors may affect prevalence, diagnoses, treatment plans, etc., and navigate these issues effectively

“ADHD Treatments”

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how to diagnose ADHD
• Know how to prescribe FDA-approved medications
• Be aware of alternative treatments

“Recognizing Signs of Self Harm in Our Patients”

Learning Objectives:

• Explain what is self-harm, and the causes and risk factors for self-harm
• Develop the knowledge to assess and identify deliberate self-harm properly 
• Formulate care plans that best support the needs of those who self-harm 

“Depression and Suicide”

Learning Objectives:

• Review the concept of suicide – statistics in the USA, etiology, screening and possible prevention
• Discuss how suicide does not always equal depression or mental illness per se
• Review best practices for evaluation and response to suicidal patients in a general medical setting

If your medical staff needs an update on an of the topics above, consider contacting our office to book a speaker at 877-505-4777 or info@speakersnetwork.com.