Earn MOC Credit Through Special Annual Meeting Sessions

Psychiatrists can earn CME credit toward meeting Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements by participating in several special educational sessions at this year’s Annual Meeting in New York.

Participants in the master course titled “Essential Psychopharmacology,” directed by renowned psychopharmacologist and former APA President Alan Schatzberg, M.D., will be eligible to earn credit toward the Self-Assessment CME (Part II of MOC) as well as Performance in Practice (Part IV of MOC). The course is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (see box).

The course includes a self-assessment (2 credits) with a series of questions for participants to answer using audience feedback technology with review of references and rationales post-course in the APA Learning Center.

Additionally, members who attend the popular interactive “Focus Live!” educational sessions will be able to test their knowledge of topics in psychiatry and earn self-assessment credit for MOC Part II. Participants in each program will be able to earn 2 credits toward MOC Part II. Participants will use mobile devices to answer board-type multiple-choice questions in sessions moderated by the editor of FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, Mark Rapaport, M.D. Rapaport and William McDonald, M.D., will lead a “Focus Live!” session on “Neurocognitive Disorders” on Monday, May 7, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Also on Monday, Andrew Goddard, M.D., will lead the session “Anxiety Disorders” from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Both sessions will be held in Learning Lab I (Room 1E15) in the Javits Center.

APA has developed a pre-meeting educational activity for Annual Meeting registrants—the 2018 APA Annual Meeting Self-Assessment in Psychiatry—to help attendees assess their strengths and weaknesses and to help determine their schedule at APA’s Annual Meeting. ■