Pharmacologic Management of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Primary Care
Description
Primary care clinicians routinely manage patients whose psychiatric symptoms complicate chronic disease care, medication adherence, pain management, and overall health outcomes. This course provides a focused review of pharmacologic management for psychiatric comorbidity in the primary care setting, emphasizing antidepressant and anxiolytic selection for panic and depressive disorders, practical dosing and titration strategies, management of partial or poor response, medication adverse effects, discontinuation issues, and safe prescribing in patients with co-occurring substance use. Special attention is given to opioid use disorder treatment in primary care, including the role of buprenorphine and naltrexone, the impact of co-occurring alcohol and benzodiazepine use, methadone-related QT risk, and the importance of medication reconciliation for drug-drug interactions. The course also addresses clinical thresholds for escalation and referral, including suicidality, psychosis, acute mania, severe functional impairment, treatment resistance, unstable co-occurring psychiatric illness, and substance use complexity that exceeds the resources of primary care.
Modules
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Pharmacologic Management of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Primary Care This course examines medication management of common psychiatric comorbidities encountered in primary care, with emphasis on panic disorder, depressive syndromes, and opioid use disorder. Content focuses on drug selection, titration, adverse effect monitoring, drug-drug interactions, duration of therapy, and recognition of patients who require referral to psychiatry or addiction specialty care.
Score:
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Status:
Not Started
Credit Hours:
4
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N/A | Not Started | 4 | Enroll Now |