With this postgraduate diploma, you will be able to renew your knowledge and make it compatible with your professional responsibilities" 

The objective of this postgraduate diploma is to provide medical professionals with an update in their knowledge about the diagnosis of patients who come to the emergency department with pathologies in which it is necessary to clearly distinguish from the beginning whether they are organic or psychiatric. Likewise, the teaching team that makes up this program will provide professionals with the latest treatments applied to those patients who come to the emergency department with clear symptoms of intoxication. 

A teaching that introduces health professionals to the different clinical pictures that they may encounter in their daily practice. A simulation of real cases provided by a teaching team specialized in this health area, which will allow, for example, doctors to update their knowledge of brain damage that can directly or indirectly cause a picture of Delirium or Confusional Syndrome.

Likewise, the students will obtain a renewal of knowledge on the main characteristics and elements that the anamnesis should contain to be able to guide the health professional on the organic causes or the use of toxic pollutants by the patient and the risk factors that they present. 

A postgraduate diploma taught 100% online that provides health professionals with a renewal of all their knowledge about Psychiatric Emergencies, allowing them to balance their work responsibilities with a high-level education provided by a specialist in the area. Therefore, students will be able to access at any time of the day, with no fixed schedule of sessions, to all the multimedia content and practical cases provided by the teaching team that has developed this university program. All they need is a device with an Internet connection from which they can access the virtual platform 24 hours a day. 

This 100% online program will provide you with the latest techniques used in the detection of substance abuse emergencies" 

This postgraduate diploma in Psychiatric Pathology vs. Organic Pathology in Emergencies contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. Its most notable features are:  

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Psychiatric Emergencies
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning 
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies 
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection 

Delve into the possible neurological causes that can affect a patient and determine the best treatment to apply" 

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities. 

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive education programmed to learn in real situations. 

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts. 

Delve into this postgraduate diploma in acute confusional syndrome from the hand of experts in this field"

Update your knowledge in the field of organic pathologies with this university program"

This postgraduate diploma highlights the value of an adequate pharmacological anamnesis in emergency consultations. That is why, with this program, health professionals will be able to obtain an update on the organic aspects of greatest interest in relation to people with mental disorders, to know the latest scientific advances in therapeutic treatments to be applied in each case and in crisis intervention. All this, with a Relearning methodology that favors the enhancement of knowledge in a simpler and more agile way. 

This postgraduate diploma  will provide you with up-to-date knowledge on psychiatric pathologies that will be of great application in emergency clinical consultations" 

General Objectives

• Delve into emergency psychiatric care in an integrated manner within the health care setting 
• Delve into the psychiatric interview in emergency medicine and the elaboration of medical histories in this area of care 
• Correctly establish a diagnostic approach in the emergency department, organism screening and psychiatric pathology approach 
• Understand and master the different pathologies that are treated in the emergency department, differential diagnosis and treatment 
• Handle different emergency situations in psychiatry: suicidal patients, affective disorders, emergencies in anxious and psychotic patients and in special populations (the elderly and child and adolescent) 

Specific Objectives

Módulo 1. Síntomas psiquiátricos en patología orgánica y neurológica 

Module 1. Psychiatric Symptoms in Organic and Neurological Pathology  

• Delve into the importance of taking a good medical history to screen for possible organic causes in patients who come to the psychiatric emergency department 
• Highlight the value of an adequate pharmacological anamnesis 
• Delve into the various organic aspects of major interest in relation to people with mental disorders 
• Train in choosing potential complementary tests to request in psychiatric cases 

Module 2. Acute Confusional Syndrome 

• Identify at-risk subjects and maintain close surveillance 
• Delve into non-pharmacological primary prevention measures 
• Delve into the therapeutic approach after the onset of the condition 
• Delve into differential diagnosis 

Module 3. Substance Use Emergencies 

• Delve into the approach to states of intoxication/abstinence, reasons for care and urgent treatment plans in patients with substance dependence 
• Emphasize the importance of taking a complete medical record when the patient's situation allows it 
• Delve into the symptoms derived from drug use for which patients may go to the emergency department 
• Identify risk factors in patients with mental disorders and concomitant substance use 
• Delve into the elaboration of the treatment plan to be followed (crisis intervention, referral to a specific device, criteria for urgent hospital admission) 

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