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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Psychiatry and COVID-19

Educational Objective
To understand how COVID-19 is affecting the field of psychiatry

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JAMA

Published Online: September 22/29, 2020

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Article Information and Disclosures

Dost Öngür, MD, PhD^1,2;

Roy Perlis, MD, MSc^1,3;

Donald Goff, MD^4,5

Author Affiliations

¹McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
²Editor, JAMA Psychiatry
³Associate Editor, JAMA Network Open
⁴Department of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center, New York, New York
⁵Associate Editor, JAMA

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused major disruptions in all aspects of daily life, from school and work to interactions with friends and families. Mitigation measures also substantially altered the economic environment, with tens of millions of people in the US losing their jobs, and many more experiencing income reductions (through furloughs) or uncertainty about the future of employment and health insurance. In addition, major changes took place almost overnight in the landscape of medicine and medical care, including new policies to reduce social/physical interaction and cessation of many in-person medical visits.

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Article Information

Corresponding Author: Dost Öngür, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St, Mailstop 108, Room AB320, Belmont, MA 02478 (dongur@partners.org).

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Perlis reported receiving personal fees from Outermost Therapeutics, Psy Therapeutics, Genomind, RID Ventures, Burrage Capital, and Takeda outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

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Credit Designation Statement: The American Medical Association designates this Journal-based CME activity activity for a maximum of 1.00  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;;
1.00 Self-Assessment points in the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification program;
1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;
1.00 Lifelong Learning points in the American Board of Pathology’s (ABPath) Continuing Certification program; and
1.00 CME points in the American Board of Surgery’s (ABS) Continuing Certification program

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