More Than 70 Registered for APP Skills Course

Academy continues to support the development of educational resources for Advanced Practice Providers

Today’s half-day skills course for Advanced Practice Providers has attracted more than 70 pre-registrations—among them physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and trainees.

This is the second year of the Interdisciplinary Education Subcommittee’s course for APPs at the Annual Meeting, building on an inaugural course held at last year’s meeting  in Austin.

The course covers C-L Psychiatry topics, including medication safety (antipsychotics); psycho-oncology; and challenging interpersonal dynamics. Multiple interactive case-based discussions are in each of the three topic areas.

Longitudinal themes across all topics include psychopharmacology, medication monitoring, liaising and relationship building skills, identifying one’s scope, and utilizing team resources.

Following feedback from last year’s attendees, subcommittee chair Tina Beizai, MD, FACLP, DLFAPA, says: “Didactics will be 30 minutes, and each will be followed by 45 minutes of interactive cases with some knowledge-based questions and some interprofessional team-based questions. We shifted it to have more time for interaction this year.”

The subcommittee has also developed resources on the ACLP website which can be used by inter-disciplinary teams for education and team-development.

ACLP continues to support the development of educational content for APPs—an expanding part of the C-L Psychiatry workforce.