Psychiatrists even though they would be considered the ideal and best medical specialty to evaluate and treat sexual dysfunctions due to their knowledge of medicine and psychology, yet not too many psychiatrists are interested in sexual medicine.Psychiatrists who are dealing with sexual dysfunctions including myself felt outside the main stream of psychiatry. It is only when MDs realised that medications specially those prescribed by psychiatrists like antidepressants and antipsychotics cause sexual dysfunctions that our profession got interrested in the field of sexology. In Canada, the Canadian Psychiatric Association formed a group of experts psychiatrists including myself to come up with a programme to teach psychiatrists how to evaluate sexual dysfunctions and treat them. The group met about 10 times to establish the educational material,each member was given a chapter to develop.Then the whole team revised each chapter.Testing the material was done bypresenting it to small groups, addition was done and when finalised ,the programme was presented to the association. The programme has the official approval of the Association and attendees can obtain hours of CME that can be counted for recertification. The whole process will be explained.
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Recorded: Sydney, Australia, April 2007
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