Neurology For The Psychiatry Specialist Board

This new edition of Neurology for the Psychiatry Specialty Board Review, provides an accurate and comprehensive review of the most frequently encountered topics in the field of clinical neurology and neuroscience.The second edition features all new questions and provides answers and explanations that are referenced to standard textbooks. It offers a varied testing format, including clinical vignettes and matching, true-false, and multiple choice questions. The author consulted with medical students and faculty on incorporating new material. Neurology for the Psychiatry Specialty Board Review, Second Edition is a thorough and indispensable tool for preparing for the board certification or re-certification examination in psychiatry or neurology, for in-service training examinations, or simply as a test of the reader's knowledge of the field.

Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, Neurology for the Boards provides a comprehensive, methodical review of the neurology material candidates must master for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology examination. The book equips neurologists and psychiatrists at all levels of training with the up-to-date knowledge required for both certification and recertification exams. Chapters are written in an easy-to-follow outline format that facilitates study and retention. This edition's new co-author, Paul R. Carney, MD, provides greatly expanded coverage of pediatric neurology in each chapter. Coverage of pain disorders—including headache, complex regional pain syndromes, and radiculopathy—has also been expanded.

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Looking Back and Moving Ahead honors the 75th anniversary of the ABPN by reviewing the Board's history and evolution, describing the subspecialties and the role that certification plays in their practice, explaining the current status of the ABPN's programs, and exploring future directions. A substantive contribution to our understanding of the historical and contemporary issues that confront the Board, the profession, and the community of practitioners, this book Provides in-depth chapters on the neurological subspecialties, including child neurology, clinical neurophysiology, vascular neurology, neuromuscular medicine, and neurodevelopmental disabilities. Explores the psychiatric subspecialties in detailed chapters on addiction psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and forensic psychiatry. Describes the evolution and ongoing management of the credentialing process, including exam development, administration, and scoring. Addresses the critical importance of ethical standards and their integral role in certification, licensing, and practice. Discusses the future of board certification and the importance of recertification and lifelong learning. With chapters written primarily by current or former ABPN directors or senior staff members, The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Looking Back and Moving Ahead will be invaluable to candidates, training programs, and institutions preparing for certification; diplomates seeking to maintain certification; and subspecialists desiring to understand the role of certification in their subspecialty.

This book is an excellent review for neurology residents and practicing neurologists studying for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certification and recertification exams. The book has 1,000 multiple-choice questions that mimic the Boards, along with answers and explanations. The Neurology and Psychiatry sections consist of chapters on specific topics that are emphasized in the Board exams. Neurology High Yield Points, Psychiatry High Yield Points, and Psychiatry Factoids chapters list the most important points for quick review just prior to the exam. All of the questions and answers in the book will be available electronically on a companion Website.

The practice of medicine has changed radically during the past few decades. Patients -- better informed than ever -- now demand more of their physicians, viewing them as partners rather than revering them as sole decision-makers. In this environment, nonnegotiable core competencies -- ever-evolving and measured by certification, recertification, and, more recently, maintenance of certification -- are more important than ever. Written from the perspective of those responsible for educating and certifying the next generations of psychiatrists, this groundbreaking compendium by distinguished contributors offers -- for the first time -- a concise look at the final product of the June 2001 Invitational Core Competencies Conference sponsored by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) as regards psychiatry (with a future comparable publication focusing on neurology). Divided into four parts, Part I sets the stage for the current concept of physician "competence" by presenting a brief history of medical competence, explaining the logic behind the development of the current competence outline. Part II provides two different views of how to look at core competencies: how competence is defined by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and, based on some of their work, what is currently being done in the United States. Part III discusses the organizing principles -- identified in 1999 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) -- that frame all of our conversations about competence, as currently delineated for psychiatrists across the six core competency categories: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Interpersonal and Communications Skills, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Professionalism, and Systems-Based Practice. Also presented are discussions of when in a physician's career these competencies should be assessed and what methodologies would be appropriate for that assessment. Part IV discusses how the psychiatry core competencies are changing board certification and recertification. Also presented are informed predictions about the changes that medical school faculty and residency training directors will have to make and how practitioners will have to change behaviors to maintain their board certification. Concluding with an appendix outlining the six core competencies for psychiatry, this invaluable resource will both help psychiatric residents and their faculty and training directors understand the core competencies important to the ABPN and provide practitioners with a view of what will be contained in their upcoming maintenance of certification programs now being designed.

Designed as a results-oriented study guide that delivers everything needed to improve knowledge, confidence and recall. Over 3000 rapid-fire questions cover all topics on the psychiatry boards.

Neurology for the Specialty Boards is an ideal study guide and review for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certification and recertification exams and for the annual in-service exam taken by neurology residents. The book sharply focuses on high-yield material and includes over 200 questions at the level of difficulty encountered on the boards. Coverage includes an extensive basic science section, a detailed review of current neurophysiological modalities, and chapters on all the clinical neurology areas covered on the boards. The largest clinical chapter is on pediatric neurology, an area that is heavily tested on the boards.

This new review textbook, written by residents and an experienced faculty member from Cleveland Clinic, is designed to ensure success on all sorts of standardized neurology examinations. Presented in a comprehensive question-and-answer format, with detailed rationales, Comprehensive Review in Clinical Neurology is a must-have for both aspiring and practicing neurologists and psychiatrists preparation to take the RITE, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology written exams, and various recertification exams.