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.
