Overview

This intensive training program will enhance a prescriber’s skills in treating and managing mental health concerns in perinatal patients. This interactive program will provide helpful tools and strategies for ob/gyn’s, family practice and psychiatric clinicians to utilize within their practice. Six hours of CME-certified education are offered over the course of of two, 3-hour trainings.  This program is presented by Project TEACH’s expert team of reproductive psychiatrists and psychologists.

Project TEACH is funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and all services and events, such as this intensive training, are offered at no-cost to clinicians in New York State.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this program:

• Physicians/clinicians will have increased knowledge of the risks/benefits/alternatives to the treatment of perinatal psychiatric illness which will enable them to improve informed consent and treatment of perinatal patients.
• Physicians/clinicians will receive up to date, evidence-based information about when, what, why, and how to use medications in perinatal patients.
• Physicians/clinicians will be able to utilize psychotherapeutic approaches which will enable them to improve their ability to treat perinatal psychiatric disorders.

Target Audience

New York State NYS Obstetrics/gynecology and family practice physicians, psychiatrists, midwives, doulas, nursing professionals, residents, and other primary care clinicians working with perinatal patients.

Tuition

This training program is offered at no cost to physicians and clinicians affiliated with a practice that provides medical or psychiatric treatment to perinatal patients in New York State. It is offered as a service provided by Project TEACH, funded by the NYS Office of Mental Health.