About the Course
This 60-minute continuing education session provides clinicians with a practical overview of the current evidence base on large language models and generative AI in the care of people with psychosis. Including bias in AI systems, emerging reports of LLM-associated psychotic phenomena, and frameworks for evaluating AI safety in mental health contexts. and is eligible for CE credits redemption.
About the Speaker(s)
John Torous, MD, MBI, is director of the digital psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and associate professor. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences and received an undergraduate degree in the field from UC Berkeley before attending medical school at UC San Diego. He completed his psychiatry residency, fellowship in clinical informatics, and master's degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard. Dr. Torous is active in investigating the potential of mobile mental health and AI technologies for psychiatry, and his team supports mindapps.org as the largest database of mental health apps, mindApps.ai for benchmarking AI chatbots, mindLAMP technology platform for scalable digital phenotyping and interventions, and the Digital Navigator program to promote digital equity and access. Dr. Torous has published over 300 peer reviewed articles and 5 book chapters on the topic. He directs the Digital Psychiatry Clinic at BIDMC which seeks to improve access to and quality of mental health care through augmenting treatment with digital innovations. Dr. Torous serves as editor-in-chief for the journal JMIR Mental Health, web editor for JAMA Psychiatry, and a member of various American Psychiatric Association committees.
Continuing Education Credits:
Physicians: This course is eligible for Category 2 credits. Psychologists: The Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists, and maintains responsibility for this program. This workshop offers 1 CE credits. Counselors: The Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5689 and is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This workshop series meets the criteria for 1 clock hours. Nurses: This workshop meets the specifications of the Board of Registration in Nursing in Massachusetts (244 CMR). Social Workers: Application for social work continuing education credits has been submitted. Please contact us at [email protected] for the status of social work CE accreditation. Please email for more information [email protected].
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Register here for continuing education credits for this program. You must attend live in order to claim credit.
$5.00