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I literally stumbled upon Psychiatry Residents Blog. This is not just some other psychiatry resident blogging about his or her day on the wards or in clinic. This blog is chock full of useful information, including interactive psychiatry questions, which are hard to find on the web (except here, of course!)

Speaking of content-rich, check out shrink rap, one of the best psych blogs I've found. Their associated podcast, My Three Shrinks, is as entertaining as it is educational. For those of you bored with the abhorrently dry delivery of those Audio Digest Psychiatry CDs, download a few of these podcasts instead.

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Psychiatry questions

Whether you're a psychiatry resident preparing for the ABPN Part I Psychiatry Examination and/or Psychiatry Resident-In-Training Examination (PRITE), or a medical student or resident preparing for shelf exams or medical licensing exams (USMLE and/or COMLEX), practice questions are one important key to success. Below are links to six quizzes. More to follow!

These online practice tests are comprised of old PRITE questions derived from a 1000-question plus question bank. For those preparing for the ABPN Part II Oral Examination, this outline entitled Strategies for Psychiatry Oral Boards may be useful.

Just when I thought I was getting a handle on these drug-drug interactions

I literally updated this CYP450 table in real time while sitting in the CME DRUG-DRUG INTERACTION UPDATE 2008 at the APA. The course was taught by a panel led by Dr. Kelly Cozza. She and her colleagues on the panel were excellent, but there was so much information it felt like drinking through a fire hose. Coming soon will be a similar table listing the major known, clinically relevant UGT substrates, inhibitors, etc. Eventually, I'll add some reference addressing Phase III interactions.

Yes, I said "Phase III." My head was about to explode when they started talking about this. Phase III refers to transporters, which there are apparently two super families: ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and Solute-Linked Carrier (SLC) transporters. Again, once I get a handle on this, I'll try to create some sort of "Phase III Drug-Drug Interactions for Dummies" page (target audience: me).

To those new to this table, it aims to list clinically relevant cytochrome p450 substrates, inducers and inhibitors using graphical aids to help lump drugs together to aid in memorization. I am working on linking all the drugs to their respective PubMed abstracts supporting these classifications. I also just added an antidepressant washout recommendation table. Please contact me if any of these recommendations look inaccurate.

Please submit notes, PRITE questions, etc.

Impetus for this site's growth hinges on contributions from you. Send whatever you have found useful: notes from didactics, CME presentations, PRITE practice questions...any study materials you've found helpful during your training. Please also submit your favorite psychiatry links. I still intend to build the articles section as a repository for "classic," out-of-print, psychiatry articles. So, please send any suggestions you may have. Finally, your suggestions or criticism of this site's content would serve as a peer-review that would continually improve the quality of information offered here. Acting as referees of this site will undoubtedly benefit us educationally as well. If you have a moment, please take the time to submit your comments below.

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