medportal CDB | Antidepressants

Antidepressants

Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session

General pharmacology overview. Review antidepressants. Discuss augmentation strategies. Introduce serotonin syndrome.

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

- Indicates most relevant

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).

Tags

Basic Sciences

Pharmacology Therapy

Curriculum Block

Clerkship Psychiatry Rotation

Discipline

Pharmacology Psychiatry

MCC Presentations

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] Psychotropic Drugs [D27.505.954.427.700] Serotonin Syndrome [C25.100.875] Therapeutic Uses [D27.505.954]

Related Activities