Thursday, March 23, 2023
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, and healthcare professionals.
The goal of this activity is to provide clinicians with the latest information on the screening and assessment tools for adult ADHD.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Medscape, LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Medscape designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0
category 1 credit(s) toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each
physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in
the activity.
The American Medical Association has determined that non-US
licensed physicians who participate in this CME activity are eligible
for AMA PRA category 1 credit.
1.2 contact hours of continuing education for RNs, LPNs, LVNs, and NPs.
This activity is cosponsored with Medical Education Collaborative, Inc.
(MEC) and Medscape. MEC is accredited as a provider of continuing
nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's
Commission on Accreditation.
Board of Nursing, Provider Number FBN 2773.
California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP
12990, for 1.2 contact hours.
Medical Education Collaborative, Inc. (MEC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. MEC maintains responsibility for the program. The course provides 1 hour(s) of credit.
For questions regarding the content of this activity, contact the accredited provider for this CME/CE activity noted above. For technical assistance, contact [email protected]
There are no fees for participating in or receiving credit for this
online educational activity. For information on applicability and
acceptance of continuing education credit for this activity, please
consult your professional licensing board.
This activity is designed to be completed within the time
designated on the title page; physicians should claim only those
credits that reflect the time actually spent in the activity. To
successfully earn credit, participants must complete the activity
online during the valid credit period that is noted on the title page.
Follow these steps to earn CME/CE credit:
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Some patients have clear-cut ADHD: easily distracted, difficulty staying seated, constantly losing things and forgetting appointments, problems that date back to childhood, and significant impairment in multiple areas of their life. Diagnosing a patient with those symptoms would probably seem easy, but screening for adult ADHD often isn't this textbook simple. Since almost anyone who walks into the office could fall somewhere on a continuum from mild problems with disorganization to severe ADHD, how can one confidently know where the cut-off points lie?
Screening tools like rating scales, which are typically modeled on the diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), are a necessary and important first step to making a diagnosis, particularly for a primary care physician or a psychiatrist whose specialty is not adult ADHD. Most primary care physicians and psychiatrists have not had training in this area. About 60% of children with ADHD have symptoms that persist into adulthood,[1] which translates into 4% of the US adult population, or 8 million adults. There are 3 main types of rating scales: self-report, significant other/observer report, and clinician-administered. The Adult Self-Report Scale (ASRS) is a newly developed self-rating scale that can be used to screen patients who might have ADHD.[2] There are also several other widely used rating scales.
