Psychiatry: Suicidal Ideation/Medication Side Effects (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 the clinician’s recognition of factors contributing to treatment-emergent suicidal ideation and to improve prevention of possible side effects and drug interactions of psychotropic medications. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: List the factors associated with treatment-emergent suicidal ideation in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) study.

2: Explain the role of antidepressants in the development of treatment-emergent suicidal ideation.

3: Briefly discuss the genetic factors that correlate with suicidal ideation.

4: Describe the mechanisms and management of selected side effects of psychotropic medications.

5: Discuss the symptoms and management of selected drug interactions of psychotropic drugs.