title: Teaching the Teachers of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
abstract: This commentary focuses on psychopharmacology teachers and their teaching. The authors offer broadly based pedagogic suggestions on how to deliver evidence-based and neurobiologically informed prescribing information to clinicians at all levels of experience. They argue that teaching essential psychopharmacology knowledge and practice must be up-to-date, accurate, and consistent with the reality of an individual patient's life experience and beliefs. They stress that educators must teach that nonpsychopharmacological factors in a patient's life may be as relevant to the treatment setting as the actual pharmacological basis of psychotropic drug therapeutics.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Salzman
authors.forename: Ira D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Glick
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000379:methods; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*