Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams
1000 Questions and Annotated Answers
- 2nd Edition - July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Theodore A. Stern
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 9 8 3 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 8 0 6 3 - 1
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Prepare for success on your board and shelf exams with the fully revised Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams, Second Edition. Expertly edited by renowned author and educator Dr. Theodore A. Stern as a companion to his popular and authoritative Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, Third Edition, this practical review tool contains 1,000 unique questions with annotated answers, both in print and online. You’ll have convenient, flexible access to hundreds of relevant and carefully reviewed questions from the institution trusted most by residents and practicing clinicians for its leadership in psychiatry information and reference.
- Contains 1,000 multiple-choice questions and annotated answers (400 more than in the first edition) that test your knowledge of every aspect of psychiatry, offering highly effective preparation for your primary certification exams
- Includes new content in key areas, such as psychiatric management of patients with cardiac disease, renal disease, pulmonary disease, and gastrointestinal disease; COVID-19 infection, burns, trauma, and intensive care unit treatment; and care of LGBTQAI+ patients
- Divides questions into manageable sections that correspond directly to chapters in the parent text, Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 3rd Edition; you’ll know exactly where to find detailed information for deeper learning and review
- 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
- Edited by highly accomplished and award-winning clinician and educator, Dr. Theodore A. Stern, editor of Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, 3rd Edition, as well as the Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, 8th Edition
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Residents, fellows
1. The Doctor-Patient Relationship
2. The Psychiatric Interview
3. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures
4. Treatment Adherence
5. Child, Adolescent, and Adult Development
6. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Psychiatric Instruments
7. Understanding and Applying Psychological Assessment
8. Neuropsychological Assessment
9. Coping with Medical Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill
10. An Overview of the Psychotherapies
11. Brief Psychotherapy
12. Couples Therapy
13. Family Therapy
14. Group Psychotherapy
15. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy
16. Delirium
17. Neurocognitive Disorders and Dementia
18. Intellectual Disability
19. The DSM-5: A System for Psychiatric Diagnosis
20. Mental Disorders Due to Another Medical Condition
21. Sleep Disorders
22. Impulse Control Disorders
23. Somatic Symptom Disorder and Illness Anxiety Disorder
24. Factitious Illness and Malingering
25. Substance Use Disorders
26. Psychosis and Schizophrenia
27. Depressive Disorders
28. Bipolar Disorder
29. Psychiatric Illness during Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period
30. Anxiety Disorders and PTSD
31. OCD and OC and Related Disorders
32. Dissociative Disorders
33. Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction
34. Eating Disorders
35. Grief, Bereavement, and Adjustment Disorders
36. Personality and Personality Disorders
37. Catatonia, NMS, and Serotonin Syndrome
38. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
39. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease
40. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Renal Disease
41. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Gastrointestinal Disease
42. Organ Failure and Transplantation
43. HIV Infection, and AIDS
44. NEW: COVID-19 Infection
45. Cancer
46. NEW: Psychiatric Care of Patients with Pulmonary Disease (e.g., Cystic Fibrosis)
47. NEW: Burns, Trauma, and Intensive Care Unit Treatment
48. Psychiatric Neuroscience: Incorporating Pathophysiology into Clinical Case Formulation
49. The Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders
50. Antipsychotic Drugs
51. Pharmacological Approaches to Depression and Treatment-Resistant Depression
52. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurotherapeutics (TMS/VNS/DBS)
53. Lithium
54. Antiepileptic Drugs
55. Pharmacotherapy of ADHD Across the Life Span
56. Drug-Drug Interactions in Psychopharmacology
57. Side Effects of Psychotropics
58. Natural Medications
59. The Suicidal Patient
60. Law and Psychiatry
61. Intimate Partner Violence
62. Abuse and Neglect
63. Genetic Syndromes
64. Serious Mental Illness
65. Community Psychiatry
66. Culture and Psychiatry
67. Psychiatric Epidemiology
68. Collaborative Care and Primary Care Psychiatry
69. Geriatric Psychiatry
70. Care at the End of Life
71. NEW: Care of LGBTQ Patients
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 comorbidity, and treatment of pain
80. Psychiatric aspects of stroke syndromes
81. Psychiatric Manifestations of Traumatic Brain Injury
82. Emergency Psychiatry
83. Military Psychiatry…
84. Disaster Psychiatry
85. Global Mental Health
86. Coping with the rigors of psychiatric practice
87. NEW: Mindfulness and Resilience (and Hypnosis)
2. The Psychiatric Interview
3. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures
4. Treatment Adherence
5. Child, Adolescent, and Adult Development
6. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Psychiatric Instruments
7. Understanding and Applying Psychological Assessment
8. Neuropsychological Assessment
9. Coping with Medical Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill
10. An Overview of the Psychotherapies
11. Brief Psychotherapy
12. Couples Therapy
13. Family Therapy
14. Group Psychotherapy
15. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy
16. Delirium
17. Neurocognitive Disorders and Dementia
18. Intellectual Disability
19. The DSM-5: A System for Psychiatric Diagnosis
20. Mental Disorders Due to Another Medical Condition
21. Sleep Disorders
22. Impulse Control Disorders
23. Somatic Symptom Disorder and Illness Anxiety Disorder
24. Factitious Illness and Malingering
25. Substance Use Disorders
26. Psychosis and Schizophrenia
27. Depressive Disorders
28. Bipolar Disorder
29. Psychiatric Illness during Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period
30. Anxiety Disorders and PTSD
31. OCD and OC and Related Disorders
32. Dissociative Disorders
33. Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction
34. Eating Disorders
35. Grief, Bereavement, and Adjustment Disorders
36. Personality and Personality Disorders
37. Catatonia, NMS, and Serotonin Syndrome
38. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
39. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease
40. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Renal Disease
41. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Gastrointestinal Disease
42. Organ Failure and Transplantation
43. HIV Infection, and AIDS
44. NEW: COVID-19 Infection
45. Cancer
46. NEW: Psychiatric Care of Patients with Pulmonary Disease (e.g., Cystic Fibrosis)
47. NEW: Burns, Trauma, and Intensive Care Unit Treatment
48. Psychiatric Neuroscience: Incorporating Pathophysiology into Clinical Case Formulation
49. The Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders
50. Antipsychotic Drugs
51. Pharmacological Approaches to Depression and Treatment-Resistant Depression
52. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurotherapeutics (TMS/VNS/DBS)
53. Lithium
54. Antiepileptic Drugs
55. Pharmacotherapy of ADHD Across the Life Span
56. Drug-Drug Interactions in Psychopharmacology
57. Side Effects of Psychotropics
58. Natural Medications
59. The Suicidal Patient
60. Law and Psychiatry
61. Intimate Partner Violence
62. Abuse and Neglect
63. Genetic Syndromes
64. Serious Mental Illness
65. Community Psychiatry
66. Culture and Psychiatry
67. Psychiatric Epidemiology
68. Collaborative Care and Primary Care Psychiatry
69. Geriatric Psychiatry
70. Care at the End of Life
71. NEW: Care of LGBTQ Patients
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 comorbidity, and treatment of pain
80. Psychiatric aspects of stroke syndromes
81. Psychiatric Manifestations of Traumatic Brain Injury
82. Emergency Psychiatry
83. Military Psychiatry…
84. Disaster Psychiatry
85. Global Mental Health
86. Coping with the rigors of psychiatric practice
87. NEW: Mindfulness and Resilience (and Hypnosis)
- Edition: 2
- Published: July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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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