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Mission
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FOCUS is the best system for recertification, self-assessment, and lifelong learning in psychiatry. In one package FOCUS provides a comprehensive review of current clinical practice based on the content outlined by the ABPN recertification exam. Each issue offers Clinical Reviews, a Patient Management Exercise, Seminal Articles, and a CME quiz. Twenty AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are available per year for the issue quizzes, and an additional 20 hours can be earned through completion of the end-of-year Self-Assessment Exam. All current and back issues are available online. You can earn CME credits by taking the exams from the current issue, or even the nonexpired exams from any past issue that was published during your subscription period.
The FOCUS Self-Assessment Exam is an annual 100-question, multiple-choice supplement written by practicing psychiatrists and academic experts that allows you to earn 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and the opportunity to anonymously compare your knowledge to that of your peers either online or on paper. Each question is similar to those used in board-type exams. The FOCUS Self-Assessment Exam is listed by the ABPN as an approved self-assessment activity that fulfills the requirement of psychiatrists applying for and taking the recertification examination.
FOCUS addresses the core content in psychiatry in 4-year cycles. Each issue briefs you on new developments and reviews the current state of practice in that topic area through
- A comprehensive review article summarizing current research
- A clinical synthesis article written by a leading expert in the field
- A patient management exercise and ask-the-expert column
- Recent influential works selected by experts in the field
FOCUS updates you in core content areas:
- Volume V (2007): Bipolar Disorder; Substance
Abuse: Diagnosis and Treatment; OCD and Other Anxiety Disorders; Ethics
and Professionalism: Including End of Life Care
- Volume VI (2008): Major Depressive Disorder
and Suicide; Schizophrenia: Cognition and Outcomes; Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry; Panic and Social Phobia
- Volume VII (2009): Geriatric Psychiatry; HIV
AIDS Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine; PTSD and Disaster Psychiatry;
Sleep, Eating, and Sexual Disorders
- Volume VIII (2010): Cultural Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology;
Personality Disorders; Psychotherapy
CME ACCREDITATION
The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology has reviewed FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry and the FOCUS Self-Assessment Examination and has approved this program as part of a comprehensive lifelong learning and self-assessment program, which is mandated by the ABMS as a necessary component of maintenance of certification.
The FOCUS Self-Assessment Program is also accredited for up to 20 hours of continuing professional development per year under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychiatric Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Editors
Deborah J. Hales, M.D., Arlington, Virginia
Mark Hyman Rapaport, M.D., Los Angeles, California
Patient Management Exercise
Ronald C. Albucher, M.D., Editor, San Francisco, California
B. Harrison Levine, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Editor, New York, New York
Senior Advisory Board
Carol A. Bernstein, M.D., New York, New York
Pedro L. Delgado, M.D., San Antonio, Texas
Howard H. Goldman, M.D., Potomac, Maryland
Ira M. Lesser, M.D.,Torrance, California
Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Stephen C. Scheiber, M.D., Glenview, Illinois
Peter C. Whybrow, M.D., Los Angeles, California
Daniel K. Winstead, M.D., New Orleans, Louisiana
Joel Yager, M.D., Los Angeles, California
Editorial Board
Josepha A. Cheong, M.D., Gainesville, Florida
Laura Dunn, M.D., San Diego, California
John B. Herman, M.D., Boston, Massachusetts
Donald M. Hilty, M.D., Sacramento, California
Geetha Jayaram, M.D., M.B.A., Baltimore, Maryland
Thomas A.M. Kramer, M.D., Northbrook, Illinois
Daryl Matthews, M.D., Honolulu, Hawaii
Cheryl F. McCartney, M.D., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Philip R. Muskin, M.D., New York, New York
Michele T. Pato, M.D., Los Angeles, California
Cynthia W. Santos, M.D., Houston, Texas
Deborah Spitz, M.D., Chicago, Illinois
James W. Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., Glen Cove, New York
Joyce A. Tinsley, M.D., Farmington, Connecticut
Owen M. Wolkowitz, M.D., San Francisco, California
FOCUS Self-Assessment Editorial Board
J. Michael Bostwick, M.D., Rochester, Minnesota
John H. Coverdale, M.D., Houston, Texas
Arden D. Dingle, M.D., Atlanta, Georgia
Laura Fochtmann, M.D., Stony Brook, New York
James W. Jefferson, M.D., Madison, Wisconsin
Martin H. Leamon, M.D., Sacramento, California
Annette M. Matthews, M.D., Portland, Oregon
David W. Preven, M.D., New York, New York
Rima Styra, M.D., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Marcia L. Verduin, M.D., Charleston, South Carolina
Eric R. Williams, M.D., Raleigh, North Carolina
Editorial Staff
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING, INC., JOURNALS DIVISION
Managing Editor
Michael D. Roy
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION DIVISION OF CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
Director of CME
Kathleen Debenham
Associate Director, FOCUS
Kristen Moeller
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