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Clerkship Teaching Session
Develop an approach to undifferentiated abdominal pain. Describe early management of abdominal pain.
Clerkship Teaching Session
Serotonin Syndrome. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Lithium toxicity.
Clerkship Teaching Session
Define substance use disorders (SUD) using DSM 5. What are the Canadian Safe Drinking Guidelines? How do you quickly screen patients for SUD? List clues that a SUD may be present.
Clerkship Teaching Session
General pharmacology overview. Review antidepressants. Discuss augmentation strategies. Introduce serotonin syndrome.
Clerkship Teaching Session
Review anitpsychotics. 1st Generation, 2nd Generation, 3rd Generation? Introduce neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Clerkship Teaching Session
Panic disorder. DSM-IV-TR Criteria for Panic attacks. Recommendations for pharmacotherapy for panic disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Social Anxiety disorder (SAD). Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Clerkship Teaching Session
Review Anxiolytics (Anti-Anxiety drugs). First-line: SSRIs, SNRIs, benzodiazepines, buspirone (GAD only). Second-line TCAs (clomipramine), mirtazepine, trazodone.
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Learn how to make the diagnosis of bipolar in a time efficient manner. Learn how to use psychopharmacology to treat Bipolar Disorder, using current guidelines. Learn about issues of psychopharmacology and pregnancy
