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Artificial Intelligence and Actual Psychoanalysis

From smart phones and Chat GPT to sexbots, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our intimacies, mentation, self-experience and soon, the field of psychoanalysis. Anxiety abounds regarding the presence of these hyper intelligences and the psychoanalytic community has a responsibility and…

Integrating Brain Health Discussions Into Clinical Practice: Neurology

This text module follows the recent Think Tank roundtable webinar to provide additional insight on the nuances of integrating brain health discussions into clinical practice, with a focus on general neurology settings and patient populations

Quality Improvement: The Basics

Hospitals and health systems must be dedicated to improving the quality of care provided. Knowledge of the foundational principles of quality improvement is necessary for all healthcare providers. This activity outlines basic principles of quality improvement including how to write…

Pain Management and Opioids Adaptive Learning from NEJM Group

Gaps Adverse outcomes of addiction, unintentional overdose, and death resulting from inappropriate prescribing and nonmedical use of opioid analgesics continue to contribute to the public health crisis involving opioid use disorder and overdoses. It is critical that HCPs are knowledgeable…

NCCN Guidelines in PractiCE

To provide optimal patient care, clinicians need to be well informed about the latest clinical research updates and how these advances compare to the current clinical practice standards. This activity will allow for self-directed online learning to assist in the…

Admissions After Ambulatory Surgery

Ambulatory surgery is growing in popularity among physicians and patients. While it can be convenient and less expensive, ambulatory surgery also has risks. The risks oblige all those involved with ambulatory surgeries to make effective decisions about what procedures to…

Diagnostic Safety, Part 5: Systems Factors

This activity discusses ways systems factors (flaws or weaknesses in organizational systems of care) can sabotage correct diagnoses. Think about a primary care practice with no specific policy for checking if patients actually go to recommended tests and consults, which…

Diagnostic Safety, Part 4: The Value of the Differential Diagnosis

In medicine, the formulation of a differential diagnosis is fundamental to the diagnostic reasoning process. It is less likely to find documentation of a differential diagnosis in cases that have diagnostic errors. This activity presents strategies to fortify the differential…