Topics

• Psychiatry as a subspecialty of medicine
• Integration of psychiatry in primary health care
• General hospital psychiatry
• Medical aspects of psychiatry
• Psychiatric aspects of medicine
• Interface between psychiatry and other medical specialties
• Recent advances in management of psychiatric disorders
• Psychotherapy as a medical intervention
• Addiction as a chronic medical disorder
• Advances in the management of difficult to treat psychiatric disorders
• Child and adolescent psychiatry from a medical perspective