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Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams

600 Questions and Annotated Answers

  • 1st Edition - December 27, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Theodore A. Stern
  • Language: English

Prepare for success on your board and shelf exams with the all-new Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams. Based on the popular and authoritative Ma… Read more

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Prepare for success on your board and shelf exams with the all-new Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams. Based on the popular and authoritative Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 2nd Edition, this practical review tool contains 600 questions with annotated answers, offered both in print and online. You’ll have convenient, flexible access to hundreds of relevant, carefully reviewed questions from MGH—the name trusted by psychiatry residents and practicing clinicians as a leader in psychiatry information and reference.

Key features

  • Contains 600 multiple-choice questions and annotated answers that test your knowledge of every aspect of psychiatry, offering highly effective preparation for your primary certification exams
  • Divides questions into 94 sections that match the parent text, Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 2nd Edition
  • Helps you gain a better understanding of exam presentation and format as you study relevant content that is fully up to date with DSM-5
  • Allows you to study both in print and online, or review offline with the eBook download
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Readership

Psychiatry residents preparing for their Psychiatry Board Exams

Table of contents

Section 1. Approach to the Patient

1. The Doctor Patient Relationship

2. The Psychiatric Interview

3. Laboratory Test and Diagnostic Procedures

4. Treatment Adherence

Section 2. Human Development

5. Child, Adolescent and Adult Development

Section 3. Psychological and Neuropsychological Testing

6. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Psychiatric Instruments

7. Understanding and Applying Psychological Assessment

8. Neuropsychological Assessment

Section 4. The Psychotherapies

9. Coping with Medical Illnesses and Psychotherapy of Mental Ill

10. An Overview of the Psychotherapies

11. Brief Psychotherapy. An Overview

12. Couples Therapy

13. Family Therapy

14. Group Psychotherapy

15. Hypnosis

16. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy

Section 5. Psychiatric Diagnosis and Conditions

17. DSM-IV, A System for Psychiatric Diagnosis

Section 6. Disorders of Cognition

18. Delirium

19. Dementia

20. Intellectual Disability

Section 7. Mental Disorders Due to Another Medical Condition

21. Mental Disorders Due to Another Medical Condition

Section 8. Sleep Disorders

22. Sleep Disorders

Section 9. Psychiatric Disorders

23. Impulse-Control Disorder

24. Somatic Symptom Disorder

25. Factitious Disorders and Malingering

26. Alcohol-Related Disorder

27. Drug Addiction

28. Psychosis and Schizophrenia

29. Mood Disorders. Depressive Disorders (Major Depressive Disorder)

30. Bipolar Disorder

31. Psychiatric Illness during Pregnancy and Post-partum Period

32. Anxiety Disorder

33. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorder

34. Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

35. Dissociative Disorder

36. Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction

37. Eating Disorders. Evaluation and Management

38. Grief, Bereavement and Adjustment Disorder

39. Personality and Personality Disorder

Section 10. Treatment Approaches

40. Psychiatric Neuroscience. Incorporating Pathophysiology into Clinical Case Formulation

41. The Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorder

42. Antipsychotic Drugs

43. Antidepressants

44. Pharmacological Approaches to Treatment-Resistant Depression

45. Electroconvulsive Therapy

46. Neurotherapeutics

47. Lithium and its Role in Psychiatry

48. The Use of Antiepileptic Drugs in Psychiatry

49; Pharmacotherapy and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder across the Life Span

50. Drug-Drug Interactions with Psychopharmacology

51. Side Effects of Psychotropic Medications

52. Natural Medications of Psychiatry

Section 11. Special Topics in Psychiatry

53. The Suicidal Patient

Section 12. Psychosomatic Medicine

54. Psychiatric Consultation to Medical and Surgical Patients

55. Life-threatening Conditions in Psychiatry. Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, and Serotonin Syndrome

56. Psycho-oncology. Psychiatric co-morbidities and Complications of Cancer and Cancer Treatments

57. Psychiatric Aspects of HIV-Infected and AIDS

58. Organ Transplantation. Pre-Transplant Assessment and Post-Transplant Management

59. Approaches to Collaborative Care and Primary Care Psychiatry

60. Psychiatry and Ethical Aspects of Care at the End of Life

Section 13. Psychiatric Epidemiology and Statistics

61. Psychiatric Epidemiology

62. Statistics in Psychiatric Research

Section 14. Genetics and Psychiatry

63. Genetics and Psychiatry

Section 15. Social and Community Psychiatry

64. Serious Mental Illness

65. Aggression and Violence

66. Culture and Psychiatry

67. Community Psychiatry

68. Managed Care and Psychiatry

Section 16. Child Psychiatry

69. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Disorders

70. Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder in Transition Adolescents and Young Adults

Section 17. Geriatric Psychiatry

71. Geriatric Psychiatry

Section 18. Neuropsychiatry

72. Neuroanatomical Systems Relevant to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

73. The Neurological Examination

74. Neuropsychiatric Principles and Differential Diagnosis

75. Neuroimaging in Psychiatry

76. Clinical Neurophysiology and Electroencephalography

77. Psychiatric Manifestations and Treatment of Seizure Disorders

78. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Headaches

79. Pathophysiology, Psychiatric Co-morbidity, and Treatment of Pain

80. Psychiatric Aspects of Stroke Syndromes

81. Movement Disorders

82. Psychiatric Manifestations of Traumatic Brain Disorders

Section 19. Law and Psychiatry

83. Intimate Partner Violence

84. Psychiatric Correlates and Consequences of Abuse and Neglect

85. Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry I. Informed Consent, Competency, Treatment Refusal and Civil Commitment

86. The Role of Psychiatrist in the Criminal Justice System

87. Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry II. Malpractice and Boundary Violations

Section 20. Care in Special Settings

88. Emergency Psychiatry

89. Rehabilitation Psychiatry

90. Military Psychiatry

91. Disaster Psychiatry

Section 21. Preparing for the Future

92. Coping with the Rigor of Psychiatric Practice

93. Psychiatry and the Media

94. Global Mental Health in the Twenty-First Century

Review quotes

"Over the years, I have read several editions of Dr. Stern’s Psychiatry Update & Board Preparation to study for shelf exams, PRITEs, board exams, and board recertification. This new Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams is an incredibly useful companion to the MGH Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 2e, providing hundreds of new board-style questions. The annotated answers are exceptionally detailed. In many cases, one can learn as much (or more) from reading explanations about the incorrect choices as the correct ones. The preparing student who works this study guide in conjunction with the Psychiatry Update can expect to pass board certification and recertification…and pass comfortably." - Jonathan Stevens, MD MPH, Baylor College of Medicine

"Those looking for a practical, comprehensive and authoritative tool to study for psychiatry examinations or just to keep current in the field should look no further. The Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams offers broad coverage of relevant topics and thorough discussion of each question and its answers. This book is a portable psychiatric exam preparation course from a master teacher. It’s a must-have study reference." -John Shuster, MD, Former President, Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 27, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Theodore A. Stern

Dr. Theodore A. Stern is the Ned H. Cassem Professor of Psychiatry in the field of Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Chief Emeritus of The Avery D. Weisman, Psychiatry Consultation Service, and Director of the Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Stern has co-authored more than 550 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and he has edited or authored more than 60 books (including the MGH Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, the MGH Psychiatry Update and Board Preparation, Learning About Psychopharmacology, Facing Overweight and Obesity, Facing Pelvic Pain, Facing Memory Loss and Dementia, Facing Serious Mental Illness, and the MGH Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams). Dr. Stern is a Past-President of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) and is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of its journal, Psychosomatics (now called Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry). He has won the coveted “Best Teacher Award” from the graduating residents at the MGH/McLean Hospital Psychiatric Residency Training Program, the Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award from the HMS Department of Psychiatry, the MGH Department of Psychiatry’s Award for Exceptional Mentorship in the Clinical Realm, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Liaison Psychiatry, and the Thomas P. Hackett Award from the ACLP (its highest honor).

Affiliations and expertise
Psychiatrist and Chief Emeritus, Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service, Director, Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Ned H. Cassem Professor of Psychiatry in the Field, Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA