PsychSnaps Newsletter Series

Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 12:00 AM - Saturday, September 30, 2028, 12:00 AM


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.25 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.25 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.25 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 >500 current subscribers, including >150 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 of a patient's presenting 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

Articles are bundled together in sets of 12; each will take approximately 15 minutes to read. Completion of all articles in each bundle and its associated evaluation survey will be awarded three (3) continuing education credits.  You may engage with the articles in any order.

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.

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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.

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

Each bundle includes 12 newsletters offering 3 hours of continuing education credit each.

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 tab to review each available bundle. You can claim credit upon completion of the group of newsletters and obtain a certificate.

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.

Accessibility Statement

The University of California, San Francisco welcomes everyone, including people with disabilities to our events. We are committed to ensuring that our programs, services, goods, and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008. If you have needs that require special accommodation, please let us know during registration.

 

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 initially supported by the California Health Care Foundation, Community Grants from the Mount Zion Health Fund, a HRSA Training Enhancement Award (TA2HP48947),  and by a Faculty Innovation in Education Award from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.