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 San Francisco.

Participants in the master course titled “Essential Psychopharmacology,” directed by renowned psychopharmacologist and past APA President Alan Schatzberg, M.D., will be eligible to earn credit toward the Self-Assessment CME (Part 2 of MOC) as well as Performance in Practice (Part 4 of MOC). The course is scheduled for Tuesday, May 21, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.. 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 2. Participants in each program will be able to earn 2 credits toward MOC Part 2. Participants will use their mobile devices to answer board-type multiple-choice questions in sessions moderated by Mark Rapaport, M.D., the editor of FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry. Rapaport and David Mischoulon, M.D., Ph.D., will lead a “Focus Live!” session on “Complementary and Integrative Medicine” on Tuesday, May 21, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Later that day, Ian A. Cook, M.D., will lead the session “Emerging Therapies” from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Both sessions will be held in Learning Lab I in the Moscone Center.

APA has developed a pre-meeting educational activity for Annual Meeting registrants—the 2019 APA Annual Meeting Self-Assessment in Psychiatry—to help attendees assess their strengths and weaknesses and plan their meeting schedule accordingly. ■