Anxiolytics/sedatives
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
Review Anxiolytics (Anti-Anxiety drugs). First-line: SSRIs, SNRIs, benzodiazepines, buspirone (GAD only). Second-line TCAs (clomipramine), mirtazepine, trazodone.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Mood Disorders (including in post-partum, seasonal, GMC)
- Anxiety Disorders
- 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
Anxiety
Depressed Mood
Prescribing Practices
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Anti-Anxiety Agents [D27.505.696.277.950.015]
Pharmacologic Actions [D27.505]
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Psychotropic Drugs [D27.505.954.427.700]
Therapeutic Uses [D27.505.954]
Tranquilizing Agents [D27.505.696.277.950]
