Extra CME Funds

[Psych19]

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Got some extra CME funds to spend before the end of the month, I think about $1500.

I've been subscribing the Carlat Report. Also bought a few of their books.

I don't think I'm looking at going to any conferences in the next year, unless maybe they're virtual. I guess I can join a few professional societies like the APA.

Any recommendations for good CME resources?

 

[clausewitz2]

Got some extra CME funds to spend before the end of the month, I think about $1500.

I've been subscribing the Carlat Report. Also bought a few of their books.

I don't think I'm looking at going to any conferences in the next year, unless maybe they're virtual. I guess I can join a few professional societies like the APA.

Any recommendations for good CME resources?

More books, all the books. Any particular areas of psychiatry tickle your fancy at this point? Any you know literally nothing about?

Books are great for a) getting baseline knowledge where you are relatively ignorant and b) soaking up the fine details/trivia/subtler points of areas that you are really into. Some of them also have more rarefied clinical observations that are sometimes gold, if only to better train your pattern recognition system on presentations or outcomes that are unusual enough you may not see them in person.

Perhaps something on treating sleep disorders? Lots of people will complain about insomnia, you will not want to give most of them benzos or z-drugs, so what do you do that doesn't involve giving them metabolic syndrome? CBT-I is not an incredibly complicated thing and the basic approaches are useful and can be implemented even in typical med follow-ups to some extent. The psychologists may yell at me but it is definitely the kind of thing you can learn a lot of out of a good treatment manual. I am partial to Harvey and Buysse's Treating Sleep Problems: A Transdiagnostic Approach but there are plenty of others out there. It probably is not part of your regularly scheduled training and it is really nice not to feel totally helpless or an urgent need to change the subject when someone tells you they can't sleep.

 

[watto]

More books, all the books. Any particular areas of psychiatry tickle your fancy at this point? Any you know literally nothing about?

Books are great for a) getting baseline knowledge where you are relatively ignorant and b) soaking up the fine details/trivia/subtler points of areas that you are really into. Some of them also have more rarefied clinical observations that are sometimes gold, if only to better train your pattern recognition system on presentations or outcomes that are unusual enough you may not see them in person.

Perhaps something on treating sleep disorders? Lots of people will complain about insomnia, you will not want to give most of them benzos or z-drugs, so what do you do that doesn't involve giving them metabolic syndrome? CBT-I is not an incredibly complicated thing and the basic approaches are useful and can be implemented even in typical med follow-ups to some extent. The psychologists may yell at me but it is definitely the kind of thing you can learn a lot of out of a good treatment manual. I am partial to Harvey and Buysse's Treating Sleep Problems: A Transdiagnostic Approach but there are plenty of others out there. It probably is not part of your regularly scheduled training and it is really nice not to feel totally helpless or an urgent need to change the subject when someone tells you they can't sleep.

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia, A Session-By-Session Guide - Michael Perlis

 

[Jules A]

I can't wait until conferences are in person again. I'm not interested in spending a grand, my money or the hospital's, to sit on my rear and stare at a Zoom screen for three days. The best part of conferences are networking, seeing different cities and writing it off.

 

[ridethecliche]

I can't wait until conferences are in person again. I'm not interested in spending a grand, my money or the hospital's, to sit on my rear and stare at a Zoom screen for three days. The best part of conferences are networking, seeing different cities and writing it off.

Yeah, but then you deny yourself the privilege of 'going' to a conference in your PJ's eating cereal all day.

 

[clozareal]

Online:

1. Psychopharmacology Institute - hit or miss, but the video lectures are pretty good.
2. Simple & Practical Mental Health - pretty well organized. Their daily emails are also really good.
3. UpToDate subscription if you don't have one through your institution

Trainings:

1. Lots of trainings through SEAK: IME, expert witness, medical file review for insurance, etc.. Will help you diversify your income streams
2. Psychotherapy: trainings in MBT (at UCLA or McLean), DBT, ACT, psychoanalytic institutes, hypnosis, etc.
3. Financial: White Coat Investor's Fire Your Financial Advisor course or any of their other courses online

You can also pay off ABPN's yearly fees in advance. CMEtoGO 3 year plan provides you all the CME you need in a 3 year block.

 

[NickNaylor]

My go-to for this situation is to take a look at the APA's biannual flyer on their recent publications and load up. Currently in the process of spending the rest of my CME funds before the fiscal year ends this week...

 

[Psych19]

These are all great suggestions! Thanks, all.

 

[Stagg737]

I actually bought a number of the books I’ve heard recommended to patients or that are frequently used/read by patients (12 step book, CBT Toolbox, The Body Keeps the Score, etc). Kind of hard to recommend tools for the patients to utilize when you don’t know what’s in them or what they’re about.