Massachusetts General Hospital Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams

1. The Doctor-Patient Relationship
2. The Psychiatric Interview
3. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures
4. Treatment Adherence
5. Child, Adolescent, and Adult Development
6. Diagnostic Rating Scales and Psychiatric Instruments
7. Understanding and Applying Psychological Assessment
8. Neuropsychological Assessment
9. Coping with Medical Illness and Psychotherapy of the Medically Ill
10. An Overview of the Psychotherapies
11. Brief Psychotherapy
12. Couples Therapy
13. Family Therapy
14. Group Psychotherapy
15. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy
16. Delirium
17. Neurocognitive Disorders and Dementia
18. Intellectual Disability
19. The DSM-5: A System for Psychiatric Diagnosis
20. Mental Disorders Due to Another Medical Condition
21. Sleep Disorders
22. Impulse Control Disorders
23. Somatic Symptom Disorder and Illness Anxiety Disorder
24. Factitious Illness and Malingering
25. Substance Use Disorders
26. Psychosis and Schizophrenia
27. Depressive Disorders
28. Bipolar Disorder
29. Psychiatric Illness during Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period
30. Anxiety Disorders and PTSD
31. OCD and OC and Related Disorders
32. Dissociative Disorders
33. Sexual Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction
34. Eating Disorders
35. Grief, Bereavement, and Adjustment Disorders
36. Personality and Personality Disorders
37. Catatonia, NMS, and Serotonin Syndrome
38. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
39. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Cardiac Disease
40. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Renal Disease
41. NEW: Psychiatric Management of Patients with Gastrointestinal Disease
42. Organ Failure and Transplantation
43. HIV Infection, and AIDS
44. NEW: COVID-19 Infection
45. Cancer
46. NEW: Psychiatric Care of Patients with Pulmonary Disease (e.g., Cystic Fibrosis)
47. NEW: Burns, Trauma, and Intensive Care Unit Treatment
48. Psychiatric Neuroscience: Incorporating Pathophysiology into Clinical Case Formulation
49. The Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders
50. Antipsychotic Drugs
51. Pharmacological Approaches to Depression and Treatment-Resistant Depression
52. Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurotherapeutics (TMS/VNS/DBS)
53. Lithium
54. Antiepileptic Drugs
55. Pharmacotherapy of ADHD Across the Life Span
56. Drug-Drug Interactions in Psychopharmacology
57. Side Effects of Psychotropics
58. Natural Medications
59. The Suicidal Patient
60. Law and Psychiatry
61. Intimate Partner Violence
62. Abuse and Neglect
63. Genetic Syndromes
64. Serious Mental Illness
65. Community Psychiatry
66. Culture and Psychiatry
67. Psychiatric Epidemiology
68. Collaborative Care and Primary Care Psychiatry
69. Geriatric Psychiatry
70. Care at the End of Life
71. NEW: Care of LGBTQ Patients
72. Neuroanatomical systems relevant to neuropsychiatric disorders
73. The neurological examination
74. Neuropsychiatric principles and differential diagnosis
75. Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
76. Clinical Neurophysiology and Electroencephalography
77. Psychiatric manifestations and treatment of seizure disorders
78. Differential diagnosis and treatment of headaches
79. Pathophysiology, psychiatric comorbidity, and treatment of pain
80. Psychiatric aspects of stroke syndromes
81. Psychiatric Manifestations of Traumatic Brain Injury
82. Emergency Psychiatry
83. Military Psychiatry…
84. Disaster Psychiatry
85. Global Mental Health
86. Coping with the rigors of psychiatric practice
87. NEW: Mindfulness and Resilience (and Hypnosis)