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Visiting Fellowship in ECT

Description
The visiting Fellowship offers practicing clinicians an active ECT learning experience in the Duke University Medical Center environment. The Fellowship is the oldest of its type in the USA and has trained hundreds of psychiatrists from throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The week-long program is an intensive learning experience which combines participation in ECT treatments, meetings with faculty, conferences and consultation, and self-instructional programs of readings and videotaped materials. To the extent possible, didactic and background reading material are custom-tailored to the needs for practical learning, enrollment is generally held to no more than two Fellows per week. The fellowship is offered approximately 20 times each year.

Objectives
This learning activity is designed to enable practicing clinicians a basic or advanced learning experience in electroconvulsive therapy. Upon completion of the Fellowship, the participant will be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge regarding the clinical indications and contraindications for ECT, the evaluation of patients for this treatment modality, all aspects of ECT administration, and the management of patients over and following the treatment course, including maintenance ECT.
Participate in the administration of ECT, including familiarity with unilateral and bilateral electrode placement, contemporary ECT devices, and seizure monitoring.

Prerequisite
The applicant should be a participating psychiatrist who has completed a psychiatry residency program and has appropriate clinical credentials.

Schedule and Activities
Monday through Friday with hours varying between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for a total of 40 hours. Activities include:

Accreditation
The Duke University of Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

This Duke School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 40 hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

For more information . . .

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The Duke ECT Fellowship

write:
Richard D. Weiner, M.D., Ph.D.

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OTHER CME ACTIVITIES

In addition to the Fellowship for psychiatrists, a week-long Fellowship is also offered for nurses. For more information e-mail Grace Gunderson-Falcone, RN .

[Duke University Medical Center Psychiatry Department ]