Psychiatry: Schizophrenia (Audio-Digest Foundation Psychiatry Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 38)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Psychiatry is specifically designed to provide the participant with useful and up-to-date information on accurate diagnosis and appropriate management in all types of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to:

Anxiety disorders
Dementia, delirium, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
Geriatric psychiatry
Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Mood disorders
Multiaxial illnesses
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Sexual disorders and paraphilias
Sleep disorders
Substance-related disorders

The goal of this program is to improve prevention and early treatment of psychosis, and treatment of cognitive impairment in individuals with schizophrenia. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: State why recognizing early signs of psychosis should be considered a public health issue.

2: Discuss the effects of untreated initial psychosis on patients’ lives.

3: Describe the Portland Identification and Early Prevention project and the efficacy of this biosocial model in identifying and treating early indications of psychosis.

4: Assess neurobiologic functions behind impairment of cognitive control mechanisms in schizophrenia.

5:Utilize cognitive training to improve functioning in patients with schizophrenia.