Mental health: Next steps in learning...
If you have an interest in mental health and caring for patients who suffer from psychiatric illness, then consider joining the
College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP). It’s an opportunity to network with colleagues with similar interests, share expert resources, receive training, and keep up-to-date.
The Midlands Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist Network has produced a detailed
workbook for use by healthcare professionals new to psychiatry, and their
supervisors. Approved by the
College of Mental Health Pharmacy, Introduction to Mental Health and Therapeutics covers
a range of core and more specialist conditions as well other considerations
such as legal frameworks.
CPPE has a number of resources to support your learning and practice in mental health that you can find by entering ‘mental health’ into the search box on any page of the
CPPE website.
In collab
oration with RPS, CPPE have also written
several medicines optimisation briefings, including one
on schizophrenia, dementia and depression.
BMJ Learning has a range of e-learning around mental health. Click on the ‘Browse Courses' tab then select ‘Psychiatry’. The MHRA also has a series of
e-learning modules on psychiatry drugs including antipsychotic drugs, SSRIs and benzodiazepines.
