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AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING, INC. Focus: Patient Management Exercises In Psychiatry by Levine B H
FOCUS Patient Management Exercises in Psychiatry is a practical and accessible self-study workbook designed for practicing psychiatrists who want to improve their knowledge of clinical psychiatry and patient care. Physicians who complete the exercises in this workbook can improve their clinical decision making, advance their communication and diagnostic abilities, evaluate their knowledge and clinical skills, learn leading-edge clinical information, and most importantly, improve patient care. The dynamic patient management exercises included here are derived from material in FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry.
Designed to test clinical considerations beyond the typical multiple-choice testing approach these exercises describe diagnostic and therapeutic questions in a clinical narrative that follows a patient through time. Each vignette closely resembles an actual patient presentation, including constellations of symptoms and introduction of new and critical information that was unexpected by the physician. These clinical vignettes are intended to refine diagnostic and communication skills and sharpen.