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Teaching the Teachers of Clinical Psychopharmacology

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This commentary focuses on psychopharmacology teachers and their teaching. The authors offer broadly based pedagogic suggestions on how to deliver evidence-based and neurobiologically informed prescribing information to clinicians at all levels of experience. They argue that teaching essential psychopharmacology knowledge and practice must be up-to-date, accurate, and consistent with the reality of an individual patient’s life experience and beliefs. They stress that educators must teach that nonpsychopharmacological factors in a patient’s life may be as relevant to the treatment setting as the actual pharmacological basis of psychotropic drug therapeutics.

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Dr. Glick is the editor/chairman of a committee that has developed the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology's model psychopharmacology curriculum. There was no funding source for this paper.

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Carl Salzman

  2. Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA

    Ira D. Glick

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Recommended Journals for Psychopharmacology Teachers

  • Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

  • American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Neuropsychopharmacology

  • Biological Psychiatry

  • International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

  • Schizophrenia Research

  • JAMA Psychiatry

  • Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

  • British Journal of Psychiatry

  • Journal of the American Medical Association

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Salzman, C., Glick, I.D. Teaching the Teachers of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Acad Psychiatry 39, 475–481 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-014-0263-z

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