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Specifics about each Level and each Item:
What you do you need to know:
Level 2
• Identifies
common
psychiatric disorders
Delirium, including from medications,
hospitalization, post-operative, and Intensive care
setting
Anxiety disorders
Mood disorders including Bipolar,
Depression and Mania
Psychotic disorders including
Schizophrenia
Conversion disorders and Malingering
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Identifies
psychiatric co- morbidities in patients with a
neurologic disease
Level 3
• Recognizes
when a patient’s neurological symptoms are of
psychiatric origin
Non-epileptic seizures
Non-Physiological syndromes (Hemiparesis,
sensory symptoms, psychogenic blindness)
Psychiatric aspects of Headaches
Self-Injurious behavior
• Recognizes
when a patient’s psychiatric symptoms are of neurologic
origin
Strokes and Psychiatric medicines
Psychiatric aspects of Epilepsy
• Identifies
major side effects of psychiatric
medications
Acute extrapyramidal syndromes (dystonic
reactions, etc.)
Chronic extrapyramidal syndromes (Tardive
dyskinesia, etc.)
Weight gain
Lethargy , Sedation, Insomnia
Sexual side effects
Autonomic effects
Serotonin syndromes
Drug induced tremors (Lithium, Valproate,
SSRI)
Level 4
• Diagnoses
common psychiatric disorders
Same as Level 2 but is able to diagnose
• Initiates
management of psychiatric co- morbidities in patients
with a neurologic disease
Understands side effects of
anti-depressants
Understands side effects of typical and
atypical neuroleptics
Depression in Neurological Illnesses
Anxiety in Neurological Illnesses
Psychosis in Neurological Illnesses
Understands need for psychiatric
consultation
Understands utility of counseling and
Talk therapies
Understands modalities and utility of
non-pharmacological treatments for Psychiatric disorders
Medicolegal aspects of Neuro/Psychiatric
practice
Understands role of ancillary providers
in maintaining mental health
Understands role for alternative and
complementary medicine in managing Neurological and
Psychiatric disorders |
