PsychSnaps Newsletter Series

Saturday, November 1, 2025, 12:00 AM - Tuesday, October 31, 2028, 12:00 AM


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (15.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (15.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (15.00 hours), Nursing Pharmacotherapeutic Credits (15.00 hours)

The overall purpose is to introduce and/or reinforce the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for generalists to care for adult patients with psychiatric and substance use disorders. We will accomplish this goal through the continued publication of the PsychSnaps newsletter, an innovative longitudinal education program developed for primary care clinicians by UCSF physicians Drs. Zoë Kopp, Era Kryzhanovskaya, and Emma Samelson-Jones.

About PsychSnaps

Launched in December 2022, PsychSnaps now has >700 subscribers, including >200 UCSF clinicians. The PsychSnaps team’s expertise spans general internal medicine, addiction medicine, adult psychiatry, and medical education. Every other week, we release an email newsletter to participants that features a brief, clinically focused, case-based lesson on mental health and addiction medicine topics, with the aim of expanding the capacity of generalists to address the mental health needs of primary care patients.

Specifically, we aim to help clinicians:

1. Talk with patients about their experience with challenging thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors in patient-centered ways, including the patient’s experience with substance use, suicidal and self-harm thoughts and behaviors, delusions, and hallucinations.

2. Broaden the differential diagnosis for patients with psychiatric symptoms and take initial steps in management, even when there is diagnostic uncertainty.

3. Feel confident prescribing 1st and 2nd line medications for substance use disorders, major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and PTSD, and the first line medications for psychosis, bipolar disorder (mania and depression), agitation from dementia or intellectual disability, and panic disorder.

4. Incorporate select techniques from psychotherapy into the primary care visit.

Instructions to Access the Newsletters and Claim CE Credit

Enrollment in the PsychSnaps program provides access to bundles of newsletters between December 2022 to January 2026 for a one-time fee of $55.00.  You will also have access to new content as it is added throughout 2025.

Each bundle consists of 12 articles which will take 2-4 hours to read.  You may engage with the articles in any order. Once you have read all the articles in a bundle and completed its associated evaluation survey, you will be awarded three (3) continuing education credits.

Once you complete the evaluation survey and claim credit for a bundle, the content will still be available to you; however, you will not be able to earn additional credit for that set of articles.

Click the REGISTER tab above to begin. You will be asked to sign in or create an account to continue the registration process. Once signed in and registered, access the CONTENT and TESTS tab to review each available bundle. You can claim credit upon completion of the group of newsletters and obtain a certificate.

Materials will be available November 2025 through mid-October 2028.

Supplemental Material

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1. Diagnose and differentiate between major depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, OCD, substance use disorders, and generalized anxiety disorder.
2. Choose, use, switch, and manage side effects of first line antidepressants, specifically, SSRIs, SNRIs, bupropion and mirtazapine.
3. Prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, using up to date protocols and techniques.
4. Recognize clinical situations appropriate for offering medications for the treatment of alcohol use disorder and prescribe appropriate medications for alcohol use disorder.
5. Evaluate and manage suicidality.
6. Provide brief counseling for primary care patients who have psychiatric or substance use disorders.

Course Number: MED29091

An account in the UCSF CE Portal is required to register. Click SIGN IN in the menu bar and enter your email address or UCSF MyAccess credentials to complete your profile and continue with registration. Your profile must include your degree and profession to be able to claim credit.

Registration Fees

Registration Category	Fees
All Professionals	$55

Registration will close on 10/16/2028 at 12:00am Pacific Time.  

In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Cancellations and Refunds: Cancellations should be made in writing within 7 days of enrollment. Refunds will only be made in the event that technical difficulties prevent completion of the activity, or if no interaction with the material occurred because of inadvertent or mistaken enrollment, or expiration of the activity before the learner had the opportunity to complete it fully. Fees can be transferred to another activity in the case of mistaken enrollment. Submit a help ticket to Learner Success for fastest support.

 

UCSF Land Acknowledgment Statement

We would like to acknowledge the Ramaytush Ohlone people, who are the traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respects to the Ramaytush Ohlone elders, past, present, and future, who call this place, the land that UCSF sits upon, their home. We are proud to continue their tradition of coming together and growing as a community. We thank the Ramaytush Ohlone community for their stewardship and support, and we look forward to strengthening our ties as we continue our relationship of mutual respect and understanding.

For more information, visit https://diversity.ucsf.edu/initiatives/ucsf-land-acknowledgment.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

This UCSF continuing education activity was planned and developed to: uphold academic standards to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor; adhere to requirements to protect health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA); and, include a mechanism to inform learners when unapproved or unlabeled uses of therapeutic products or agents are discussed or referenced.

UCSF adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including content planners, reviewers, authors, presenters, moderators, panelists, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible entities. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

The PsychSnaps Team was previously supported by a HRSA Training Enhancement Award (TA2HP48947), the California Health Care Foundation, the Mount Zion Health Fund, and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. They have never been supported by industry.