Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1.  Describe the roles of the members of the healthcare team in their respective responsibilities for quality care.
2.  Describe common misperceptions about ECT made by the general public as well as health care professionals
3.  Describe common inaccuracies in the way ECT is often presented in popular media
4.  Understand the historical basis for aforementioned stigma and popular perception/depiction
5.  Appreciate the effects, both positive and negative, of the antipsychiatry movement on mental healthcare, and specifically on legal regulation of ECT
6.  Recognize the dilemma in balancing patient rights with clinical need with regard to ECT
7.  Identify the recommendations for perinatal depression screening
8.  Name resources for postpartum depression treatment in our community.
9.  Understand how these services are utilized in our community.
10.  Identify potential barriers to screening and patient engagement in treatment.
11.  Assess the safety or risks of SSRI’s in pregnancy
12.  Discuss the evidence of SSRI’s during pregnancy and how it impacts ADHD or neurodevelopment in offspring
13.  Consider if SSRI use in pregnancy will change future clinical practices

Faculty

Jacob Oyer, MD

PGY-4, Baystate Medical Center Residency Program

Kelli Ruby, D.O.

PGY-4, Baystate Medical Center Residency Program

Uruj Kamal, MD

PGY-4, Baystate Medical Center Residency Program

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.