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Practical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Family Medicine Physicians Course
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
Category: Webinar

Practical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Family Medicine Physicians Course
Wednesdays, March 23 – May 5, 2022 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM CT

7-week live, online course / 15 hours of CME
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Parents/guardians of children and adolescents suffering from emotional/behavioral concerns will often speak with their trusted Primary Care Physician. However, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists are simply too few to absorb the demand alone. The Illinois Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ICCAP) has only approximately 250 physician members. first. PCP’s have traditionally had two choices: Treat the issue themselves or attempt to navigate perplexing mental health insurance networks in hopes of finding a timely appointment with an available child and adolescent psychiatrist.

SOLUTION: Empower Primary Care Physicians to address mental health concerns in children and adolescents by increasing their knowledge and confidence in diagnosing and treating common behavioral health disorders.

The program’s intent is to provide the necessary training so that primary care physicians can evaluate common mental health disorders, prescribe appropriate treatment if indicated, and monitor patients progress. It is not designed to manage complex and complicated mental health disorders but the milder forms of common pediatric mental health conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, and depression.

The curriculum covers a wide variety of mental health conditions commonly seen in primary care offices. The program consists of a series of virtual learning sessions (in both a traditional didactic format as well as small group vignette sessions) spanning a total of 15 hours. 

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this CME activity, participants should be able to:
1) Demonstrate an increased percentage of patients seen in their primary care practice with common behavioral health disorders who otherwise would be referred out to subspecialty (i.e., child and adolescent psychiatry) waitlists.
2) Adopt regular use of diagnostic/screening rating-scales f or common psychiatric disorders.
3) Increase the appropriate use of common psychiatric medications when indicated.

Registration fees:                                                                                      
IL AFP / AAFP Members - $550
Non-AAFP Members - $750

*Limited number of slots available. Register today!   

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