Optimizing Patient Care: Psychiatry, Dermatology, Women's Health - 12 night Australia and New Zealand CME cruise

This course is designed for Family Physicians, Specialists, and Allied Health Care professionals. The aim is to provide evidence-based material as well as practical and relevant clinical pearls that will be easy to implement into one’s medical practice. Conference attendees will be invited to complete a pre-course Needs Assessment to facilitate the faculty with the development of their presentations.

Psychiatry

• Psychopharmacology: classes of medications, uses, side effects
• Treatment of Psychosis
• DSM V changes: the rationale and pitfalls
• Treating Resistant Depression
• Consultation and ER Psychiatry
• Women’s issues in Psychiatry
• Cannabis and Mental Health Psychosis
• Uses of Antipsychotics in Primary care
• Paraneoplastic Syndromes in Psychiatry

Dermatology

• What is new in Acne
• Rosacea: Diagnosis and Management
• Psoriasis Old Disease—New Treatment
• Topical Steroid and Eczema
• Actinic Keratosis Diagnosis & Management
• Cosmetic Medicine: An Overview
• Pigmentation Disorders
• Melanoma / Non-melanoma cutaneous malignancies
• Dermatology Quiz

Women’s Health

• Physiology of Menstruation?
• Diagnosis and Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
• Amenorrhea: When and How to Treat
• Hirsutism and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Risk Communication in Reproductive Medicine
• Contraception “One Size Does Not Fit All”
• Menopause
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorders
• Scuba Diving and Pregnancy
• Infertility in an era of assisted reproductive technology