National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative

This is just my presentation on eating disorders vs disordered eating for a Gastrointestinal Disease Department grand rounds several years ago. What’s also helpful is an eating disorder section on the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative (NNCI) web site. I left comments and questions there, which the presenter answered.

In addition, the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) has an excellent web site and here is the link to a couple of fascinating presentations from the ACLP 2017 annual meeting on management of severe eating disorders, including a report on successful treatment using collaboration between internal medicine and psychiatry.

If you can’t find it from the link, navigate to the Live Learning Center from the ACLP home page and type “eating disorder” in the search field. One of the presentations is entitled “Has She Reached the End of Her Illness Process.” The other is entitled “Creating Inter-Institutional Collaborative Care Models.”

This is a very complex area of medicine and psychiatry. There are no simple solutions, although many experts across the country are hard at work on finding practical solutions.

The caveat is that the information here is not updated for recent changes in the literature.

EDO vs Disordered Eating GI grandrounds Download

I was just notified about the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative (NNCI) “Quarantine Curriculum” this afternoon–the program starts tomorrow. It’s a 14-day program. It’s free and all you need to do is register (also free) to log in so they can track usage.

The Zoom web-based conferencing app will be used to facilitate the program. It’s being launched in response to the COVID-19 challenges to providing classroom teaching, one of which is to prevent spread of the virus by cancelling in-person classes. The course description and the Zoom link is here.

The recommendation for social distancing to reduce exposure is leading to school closures (I can hear children playing outside; it’s an all–day recess), and recommendations to find alternative ways to approach the didactic component of medical education. The Quarantine Curriculum is one way.

NNCI is designed by medical educators to meet the need for building a strong neuroscience knowledge base for residents across many disciplines in medicine and psychiatry. I think it’s an excellent platform and one of our faculty members is on the NNCI executive council.

NNCI makes learning neuroscience fun. Check it out!