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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.
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.
This definitive history of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) shows how the Board, by defining core competencies in psychiatry and neurology, established national guidelines and standards for certification during an era of unparalleled technical and therapeutic advances. Understanding how the various specialties and subspecialties evolved, and how the credentialing process was conceived, developed, and adapted to reflect changes in clinical practice, is invaluable to both the candidate approaching the certification exams and the diplomate seeking to maintain certification. In addition, the book's emphasis on the future as well as the past provides a framework for thinking about the contemporary issues that confront the individual clinician and the community as a whole. The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: Looking Back and Moving Ahead provides persuasive testimony that those earning certification have achieved an exceptional standard of professionalism, expertise, commitment to lifelong learning, and adherence to ethical standards, as well as assurance that the ABPN will continue to provide this service to the profession -- and the public -- at the highest level.
Compilation of "official and unofficial but relevant material which would be of current reference value particularly to new members of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology".--Pref.
Prepare for your exams with Comprehensive Board Review in Neurology. This book is designed to give residents and recent residency graduates a complete review of the concepts tested in the annual resident in-service exam and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) board exam. It will also provide the neurologist-in-practice with a thorough, up-to-date review of all aspects of neurology for the ABPN recertification exam.Opening with a detailed review of the fundamental concepts of neuroanatomy, the book then addresses the basic categories of neurologic disease, such as cerebrovascular diseases, seizures and epilepsy, and nerve and muscle diseases. It also covers pertinent behavioral and psychiatric disorders, as well as common medical disorders affecting the nervous system. Features: Detailed anatomical schematics aid the comprehension of important concepts Coverage of the often-neglected areas of psychiatry and systemic diseases that affect the nervous system, as well as the traditional areas, such as neuro-oncology, pediatric neurology, and neuropathies, help you gain a firm understanding of the full range of neurological problems More than 200 pathology slides and MR images of neurologic diseases sharpen your visual recognition skills Summary tables organize large amounts of the key information and are ideal for at-a-glance review Gain the knowledge and confidence to excel on your exams with this outstanding board review. Dr. Mark Borsody is a part of Northern Neurosciences, a not-for-profit organization that supports the development of neuroscience clinical programs and research. Currently their primary focus is in the development of a telemedicine network for community hospitals in the Great Lakes region. Detailed descriptions of all their projects are available on their website, www.northern-neurosciences.com.
Certification, Recertification, and Lifetime Learning in Psychiatry describes the current status of certification and recertification in psychiatry, emphasizing the important historical milestones, the present state of research on the certification process, and options for recertification methods. This book gives detailed information about the structure of the current written and oral certification examination components. It also provides in-depth research on issues of the validity and reliability of certification methods for all medical specialties, with special emphasis on psychiatry. The authors review the variety of certification renewal approaches used by several specialties and discuss both proposed and alternative methods for recertification in psychiatry.