In many hospitals, medical hospitalists conduct screening physicals for all admissions.

Evaluating new patients in the psychiatric emergency department (ED) can be demanding and high-pressure.

Assessing suicide risk is one of the most critical responsibilities on an inpatient psychiatric unit.

When a patient threatens to kill someone, immediate action is required to protect the patient, staff, and the public.

This page has links and instructions for taking the 14 CME post-test, download links to supplemental materials, and PDF/eBook access to the Hospital Psychiatry Fact Book (2025).

This page has links and instructions for taking the 14 CME post-test, download links to supplemental materials, and PDF/eBook access to the Hospital Psychiatry Fact Book (2025).

Begin preparation at least six months before conception to ensure stability, switch to safer medications, and manage psychosocial stressors.

Bipolar depression is the depressive phase of bipolar disorder, and it presents very similarly to regular major depression.

This sheet guides you in how to use medications to rapidly treat patients with severe mania. 

Here we focus on the non-antipsychotic mood stabilizers—lithium, valproic acid, lamotrigine, carbamazepine, and oxcarbazepine