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Antidepressants
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
General pharmacology overview. Review antidepressants. Discuss augmentation strategies. Introduce serotonin syndrome.

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
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Objectives

Clerkship Objectives
  • Recommend medication management, monitoring and counselling, including: Classes of psychiatric medications and their indications. Medication counselling: indications, choice, side effects, etc. Pre-medication work-up. Medication monitoring and work-up. Side effects (blood tests and physical e.g. AIMS). Metabolic syndromes and monitoring. Special populations (pediatric, geriatric, pregnancy). Acute syndromes/reactions (NMS, dystonia, serotonin syndrome, toxicity).

Assessments

Clerkship Multiple Choice Question Exam
  • Psychiatry

Tags

Basic Sciences
Pharmacology Therapy
Curriculum Block
Clerkship Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Pharmacology Psychiatry
Longitudinal Discipline
Clinical Pharmacology
MCC Presentations
Depressed Mood
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Antidepressive Agents [D27.505.954.427.700.122] Depression [F01.145.126.350] Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions [C25.100] Pharmacologic Actions [D27.505] Psychiatry and Psychology [F] Psychopharmacology [F04.096.712] Psychotropic Drugs [D27.505.954.427.700] Serotonin Syndrome [C25.100.875] Therapeutic Uses [D27.505.954]

Related Activities

The following activities occur in the same curriculum block:

  • Psychiatric Clinical Skills
  • Psychosis Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Addiction/Substance Abuse Disorder
  • Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Personality Disorder
  • Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
  • Introduction to Psychotherapy
  • Agitated/aggressive patient

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