Electroconvulsive Therapy – A Practical Virtual Course (May 07 - 09, 2025)

Electroconvulsive Therapy – A Practical Virtual Course is organized by Duke University Health System and will be held from May 07 - 09, 2025 at Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

Description:
The Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Practical Virtual Course in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine offers a virtual 3 day training experience four times a year. This Virtual Course provides clinicians with a practical ECT learning experience without the travel time and costs that would be necessary with an on-site course. This course follows in the footsteps of our former on-site Duke ECT course, which trained well over 1,000 psychiatrists from throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. The present virtual 3 day course is focused on providing educational content directly relevant to administering ECT, including patient selection, pre-ECT evaluation and informed consent, ECT stimulus parameters and electrode placement, use of EEG monitoring, provision of ECT in patients with different diagnoses, ages, and medical comorbidities, anesthetic aspects, monitoring of treatment efficacy and side effects, management of both inpatients and outpatients during and following an acute ECT course, as well as potential future developments with this treatment modality. Considerable time during the course will be provided for answering questions from attendees, in addition to brief discussion of selected de-identified case material.

Learning Objectives:

• Discussing working with industry representatives. 
• Encouraging collaboration with other faculty at institution.
• Discussing being part of a practice to build up client base. 
• Discussing ECT centers in which you are a member and do not own the practice (no device overhead). 
• Discussing being part of a ECT center, clinic, hospital, or private practice where administrative support is provided or not provided.
• Discussing balancing research vs. treatment. Private practice vs. center or institutions.
• Discussing reimbursement and insurance scenarios and tips for submitting insurance claims.
• Discussing approaches to make ECT more affordable and tolerable.