ASCP Curriculum
ASCP Model Psychopharmacology Curriculum Fifth Edition
ASCP is announcing the expanded and updated FIFTH EDITION of the ASCP Model Psychopharmacology Curriculum for Training Directors and Teachers of Psychopharmacology in Psychiatric Residency Programs. Quality, up to date training in clinical psychopharmacology is of critical importance for the modern psychiatrist. Clinical practices have continued to change markedly, and new medications and new research appear almost daily. The ASCP curriculum integrates these new developments into a teaching tool which is the very latest in cutting-edge, evidence-based psycho-pharmacology. Already utilized in many residency training programs, and winner of the 2006 CINP (Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum) Lundbeck Prize for Education in Psychiatry and Neurology, the ASCP Model Psychopharmacolgy Curriculum has the what, the why and the how of teaching psychopharmacology, as well as ways to evaluate the residents' learning.
Contents
The 5th edition of the curriculum includes over 75 lectures in PowerPoint format (with hard-copies of all of the slides), a 50% increase over Edition 4. The material covers everything you want in a basic course (for PG Is and IIs) and in an advanced course (for PG IIIs & IVs), plus supplementary lectures. Included are lectures for child and adolescent psychiatry and geriatrics. There are a number of new lectures, and a new section on substance abuse.
For this edition, we have continued to provide pre and post-test questions for most lectures in order to help establish competency. We have added special features including recommendations of outstanding texts, journals, web sites, P450 interactions, algorithms, and many more components of a modern, properly organized psychopharmacology training program. Ongoing consultation with the educators who wrote the lectures is offered to subscribers at no extra charge.
Download the curriculum table of contents.
AADPRT Project
A special addition to this edition is a CD containing the work of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT). On this CD are greatly enhanced lectures on schizophrenia, using the ASCP curriculum as a basis.
New Versions
Primary care and medical student versions of the Curriculum are now in development. In addition to distribution to the target audiences, owners of Edition 5 of the curriculum will receive these products when available at no additional cost.
Cost
To defray the costs of production and distribution, ASCP must charge a fee for the curriculum. To new customers, the cost is $600*. To those who purchased Edition 4, the cost is $400*. (These costs have not been increased over the last edition.) ASCP members receive a $100 discount when the curriculum is purchased for their own personal use. (This discount does not apply if the curriculum is purchased for a training program or other non-personal purposes.)
*plus shipping and handling
Source of Funds
ASCP continues to produce and distribute the Curriculum without the use of funds from any commercial source. Nor does any commercial source have input into or influence over the content of the curriculum.
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Curriculum copyrighted by ASCP, 2008