psychopharm text

[ORBITAL BEBOP]

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Hello,

Can anyone please recommend a good psychopharm text for my level of training (starting PGY2 psych, has one year of prelim IM)?

Thanks

 

[Anasazi23]

You're just in time for the new edition.

Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Second Edition

Edited by Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., and Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D.
http://www.appi.org/book.cfm?id=62243

Also,
The granddaddy:
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology, Third Edition

Edited by Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., and Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D.
http://www.appi.org/book.cfm?id=62060

Check the psychiatry books sticky for the Stahl books as well.

 

[Anasazi23]

Carry this with you in rounds till you memorize all the facts of all the most commonly used meds. Then add as more obscure drugs are used...you'll find your knowledge base growing quickly.

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521011698

 

[PublicHealth]

Stahl rocks! 👍

 

[ORBITAL BEBOP]

Carry this with you in rounds till you memorize all the facts of all the most commonly used meds. Then add as more obscure drugs are used...you'll find your knowledge base growing quickly.

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521011698

Hello,

Thankx for the info and the links! Very helpful.

I see the Stahl book is from the UK, are the meds still applicable here? And is the publication year a deterrent?


Thanks!

 

[PublicHealth]

Hello,

Thankx for the info and the links! Very helpful.

I see the Stahl book is from the UK, are the meds still applicable here? And is the publication year a deterrent?


Thanks!

No, the UK has Prozac in their drinking water -- really!, they do: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm

Of course it's applicable here! Stahl is an American psychiatrist. His books are published by Cambridge University Press.

 

[Anasazi23]

Yeah, 15% of fluoxetine is excreted in the feces (80% in the urine/11.6% unchanged). The feces and urine mixes with water in the sewage, then that sewage is treated and re-released as part of the drinking water supply.

Yummy!

 

[Anasazi23]

A lot of people carry this one:

Handbook of Psychiatric Drug Therapy

Someone should paste these in the psych books section. Or start a post in the FAQ about "getting through psychiatry residency"

*hint hint*
🙂