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Psychiatry Weekly is the first weekly psychiatric news, information, and education service in the country for clinicians providing mental health services. The service includes a weekly poster distributed to hospitals nationwide, a weekly e-letter, and this website, which is consistently updated with features, CME content, and breaking news. Psychiatry Weekly is a joint venture between MBL Communications, Inc., publishers of Primary Psychiatry and CNS Spectrums, and Physician’s Weekly, LLC, the leading medical news service for acute care hospitals for over 22 years.

 

Evaluating Adverse Drug Interactions in Polypharmacy: Practicable Prevention Strategies

Sheldon H. Preskorn, MD

Dr. Preskorn says that incidence estimates for serious adverse drug reactions (ADR) run in excess of 100,000 persons per year, many, if not mostly, occurring because of DDIs, rather than a serious reaction to monotherapy.
 

What to Read and What to Teach?

Stephen I. Deutsch, MD, PhD; Richard B. Rosse, MD

The formal didactic curriculum for the psychiatric resident in the year 2008 is still, unfortunately, very inconsistent across training sites. Although there are prescriptive minimum and recommended clinical rotations and supervised clinical experiences, this is less true with respect to formal coursework and reading assignments.