Essentials of Primary Care Psychiatry

Essentials of Primary Care Psychiatry is organized by UC Davis Health System and California Psychiatric Association (CPA). This medical conference would be held during Jan 15 - 16, 2016 at Hilton Sacramento Arden West - Sacramento, CA. The target audience for this medical event basically for primarycare physicians and allied health professionals interested in mental health. This two - day conference for primary care physicians and other mental health professionals will integrate recent scientific data with current clinical practice regarding Mood and Anxiety Dis-orders, Substance Misuse, Personality Disorders, Collaborative Care, Pain Psychiatric Management and How to do a Primary Care Psychiatric Interview. This CME conference has been approved with 11 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Objectives:

- Describe the common symptoms/signs that overlap between medical and psychiatric illness
- Use appropriate history-taking and diagnostic studies to differenti-ate medical from psychiatric illness
- Provide evidence-based treatment for common co-morbid psy-chiatric illness within a medically ill patient
- Engage mental health colleagues in collaborative care within existing models of health care delivery
- Develop/adapt new models of care to integrate mental health care into primary care settings
- Recognize substance misuse and appropriate use of narcotic medications
- Identify evidence-based treatment for substance misuse disorders
- Effectively screen for anxiety in a primary care setting
- Recognize warning signs of bipolar illness in a primary care setting
- Maintain appropriate boundaries with personality disordered patients
- Describe indications for treatment with antipsychotic agents in the primary care setting