Psychiatry - Medical School Crash Course

By: AudioLearn Medical Content Team

Narrated by: Bhama Roget

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

AudioLearn's Medical School Crash Courses presents Psychiatry

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject.

The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school psychiatry course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master the course.

The material is accurate, up to date, and broken down into bite-size sections. There are Q&A and Key Takeaways sections following each topic to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

Also included is a comprehensive test containing the top 100 most commonly tested questions in psychiatry, with the correct answers.

In this course we'll cover the following topics:

• History of psychiatry
• Mental status evaluation
• Depressive disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Psychoses
• Substance use disorders
• Eating disorders
• Personality disorders
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Dynamics of suicide
• Grief and loss

AudioLearn's Medical School Crash Courses support your studies, help with USMLE preparation, and provide a comprehensive audio review of the topic matter for anyone interested in what medical students are taught in a typical medical school psychiatry course.

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Psychology

Great book for going over the topics, but you have to have some understanding already of psychology.

Dry.......

Much drier than any actual Med School course I remember except maybe Ethics!
Did cover diagnosis

Ok for students

Some of the answers are a bit confusing and inconsistent. However it is ok for a review at 1.5x speed or faster. Also some massively mispronounced terms.

PTSD is not classified under Anxiety d/o

In the DSM-5, released in 2013, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders was removed from the Anxiety Disorders and made a Classification heading of its own. The test question in Chapter 1 is wrong and states it is a subheading under Anxiety Disorders.

This testing material was released in 2017 and needs to be corrected.

I hope Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders is significantly and appropriately addressed, based on the research of the past 20-25 years. If it’s not, that would be a major weakness — since it’s groundbreaking and likely the genesis of many mental illnesses.

I’m also hoping epigenetics and generational trauma, as it relates to PTSD, addiction, and neurodevelopmental disorders, is sufficiently covered based on recent science too.

I know I haven’t listened to the entire book yet, but I’ve studied Childhood/Developmental Trauma for years now, and it’s a major recent area of research study since the Kaiser-Permanente ACE study was released in the 1990s. So, I certainly hope this Audiobook covers research of the past 25 years, since it is exceptionally significant in current knowledge.

Also, be watching for Psychiatric research related to COVID-19, and delusions about Presidential candidates. I hope those topics are being studied in an objective fashion! Because there’s a lot of cognitive distortions and a vast increase in mental health problems arising from current events.

I enjoyed so much and would highly recommend

I loved and would recommend to everyone. I made notes on key areas of interest.

A few errors in Chapter 10

Ch. 10 Question 6 @ 48:11.
Question 6 reads - which substance abuse disorder has a craving for pain killers?
A: The answer given - amphetamine abuse disorder. The CORRECT answer should be OPIOID abuse disorder. Opioids are a type of pain killer.

Chapter 10 @ 49:24
The question reads - which substance abuse disorder is treated with Antabuse?
A: the answer given was tobacco use disorder. The CORRECT answer should be ALCOHOL abuse disorder.
Tobacco use disorder can be treated with nicotine replacements such as gum, lozenges, or patches.

Review

This company does a spectacular job explaining key points with clear and concise explanations that can be reviewed again and again until all material is absorbed. I would recommend this product to any medical student as part of their study materials.

To much is given, much is expected

The products created by AudioLearn are top notched. However, it is impossible for lectures in a traditional college setting just to lecture their with out providing their students with the necessary PowerPoints for the students to have or Textbooks for their students to purchase. So, Audio lectures alone without physical content to engage with is not adequate enough to allow students to succeed.

As a student in graduate school, I appeal to the leadership of Audio Learn to make accessible the contents needed for every student to fully learn and to become successful.

Thank you for considering.

Quiz Questions are erroneous.

Very well narrated. Material is mostly up-to-date. At the end of each chapter is a quiz with clearly erroneous answers. I am rather baffled by that.

Robot narrator

The narrator sounds like a high-end text-to-speech program. I'm one chapter in and lack of variance in her tone and cadence make this audiobook a bit of a slog to get through. The content is informative, and as psych-NP student it provides a great review of 'high-yield' content, but I think I would be more engaged if I just read the book aloud to myself---which kind of defeats the point!