Overview
- Written by experts in the field
- Provides a concise, easy reference format for identifying psychiatric symptoms
- Includes positive predictive values to facilitate workup
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About this book
While individual aspects of this text exist in other formats, the comprehensive nature of our approach, descriptions of psychiatric symptoms to means of ruling out potential medical etiologies, is not currently available to providers. This text will assist providers in ruling out medical etiologies of common psychiatric symptoms, ensuring patients are diagnosed correctly. Such an improvement has the potential to dramatically improve patient outcomes.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eric Meyer MD, PhD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Department of Psychiatry
Bethesda, MD
Dr. Eric Meyer is the Psychiatry Consultant to the US Air Force Surgeon General and Deputy Director of AF Mental Health Operations. He is also an associate professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Military & Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University (USUHS). He recently completed a PhD in Health Professions Education, with a focus on the use of Entrustable Professional Activities in Undergraduate Medical Education. He previously served as the Medical Director for the 51st Mental Health Squadron at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea. Building on that operational experience, Dr. Meyer is a lead instructor for the Defense Institute for Medical Operation’s (DIMO) “Military and Disaster Mental Health” course, which he has delivered to coalition forces around the globe. As part of this interest, he has also published extensively on military cultural competence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Medical Evaluation of Psychiatric Symptoms
Editors: Eric G. Meyer, Kelly L. Cozza, James A. Bourgeois
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14372-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14371-7Published: 05 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14372-4Published: 04 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry