Insight Into Depression

Insight Into Depression About Us: "Insight Into Depression's mission is to provide non-psychiatry trained health care professionals with high quality, peer-reviewed CME opportunities and comprehensive scientific and clinical information in the specific area of Major Depressive Disorders (MDD) to improve the diagnosis of these disorders commonly overlooked in the primary care setting.
Initiative Overview
Through multi-curricula and multimedia platforms, Insight Into Depression strives to be the source of MDD education and information for primary care, general practice, and family practice physicians, as well as internal medicine specialists. As components of the Insight Into Depression integrated initiative may be of interest to additional health care providers and clinicians, activities will be open to all practitioners involved in the diagnosis and/or treatment of MDD.
The following goals were developed as guiding objectives for health care practitioners participating in Insight Into Depression continuing medical education activities:
Recognize barriers to the diagnosis of depression in the primary care setting
Identify common medical conditions that can confuse the diagnosis of depression
Develop strategies for communicating with patients about the diagnosis, prognosis, and initiation and duration of therapy
Review the critical importance of compliance with treatment regimens with patients and their families or other support members
Adopt a systematic approach to monitoring patient response and develop strategies, including referral, for dealing with an inadequate response to therapy
Use best evidence available in treating the individual patient as a whole/.../ "