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This course is an introduction and review of Anatomy and Physiology ranging from the cell and its parts and function, the CNS, respiratory system, digestive system, urinary system, skeletal system, and specific systems such as flight or flight.  The course is in 5 CE components starting with Cell Anatomy and Physiology and then proceeds to other modules to complete Anatomy and Physiology I which must be successfully mastered prior to proceeding to Anatomy and Physiology II. 

The course uses multimedia, written materials and graphics, and exercises and reading lists.  The entire multi-section course is designed to require about 3-5 hours of work and study per week and approximately 3 months to master.  It will prepare the student for understanding the basic anatomy and physiology to move forward in understanding the effects of certain environmental experiences, medications, nutrition and exercise and lifestyle, stress, and learning on the body.  This is a foundation course and must be taken early in the sequence of learning in the Medical Psychology Certificate program of study.

When you have mastered the presented materials, reviewed and prepared, you may petition your faculty instructor for a password that will admit you to the final exam.  You must pass the final exam with 70% correct or more to receive credit for this course.

You will get Master Medical Psychology and Psychopharmacology Certificate for completion of the entire post-doctoral training program and the related preceptorship as preparation for qualifying for Oral and Written Examination for Board Certification in Medical Psychology.. 

Pathophysiology or physiopathology is a convergence of pathology with physiology. Pathology is the medical discipline that describes conditions typically observed during a disease state, whereas physiology is the biological discipline that describes processes or mechanisms operating within an organism. Pathology describes the abnormal or undesired condition, whereas pathophysiology seeks to explain the physiological processes or mechanisms whereby such condition develops and progresses.

Pathophysiology can also mean the functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury. Another definition is the functional changes that accompany a particular disease.

Pathophysiology is a required area of study for nearly all healthcare professional school programs (medical, Medical Psychology, dental, physician assistant, occupational therapy, physical therapy, nurse practitioner, radiation therapists, pharmacy, nursing, radiologic science, Chiropractic and paramedic programs) in the United States, Canada and other countries.

Your text book for this course will be Pathophysiology Made Incredibly Easy: Wolters Kluwer, and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.  It can be purchased at Amazon Books: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_8?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=pathophysiology+made+incredibly+easy&sprefix=Pathophy%2Cstripbooks%2C201 For Less than $40 (be sure to get 5th or later edition-latest).  It will be a good edition to your library.

This course provides the advanced student and/or Medical Psychologist with the concept of psychological stress, its physiological manefestations, and its effects on health and disease.  It is widly supported i the scientific literature that stress is a significant factor in each life and resent data indicates that it can throw gene switches that trigger some diseases, undermines health and longevity, and interrupts immune protections.  Thus, understanding the nature, science, and remediation of stress is one of the most significant knowledge, skill, science, and technique base compotency in Medical Psychology.

In this 36 hour APA approved CE Program the student will use the text Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions, by William Lovallo, Sage Publications 2016.  All students are required to purchase a copy of this text book for the course.

A survey of Major Tranquilizers (so called Antipsychotics), related theory, techniques, uses, literature, and choices.

The Medical Psychologist will be a core dictor and medical staff member in the nation's health facilities or ancillary consultant for these facilities. The psychologist will be moving into facilities and practices that have complicated rules, procedures, legal responsibilities, and scope of practice changes that are complex and beyond the experience and training of the typical psychologist. Many medical psychologists will, however, have internships in these health facilities, postdoctoral residencies in these facilities, and rely upon organizations such as the Academy of medical psychologist to provide additional training and material.

This course is an introduction that will provide The Medical Psychologist and students of medical psychology with an introductory review of laws, rules, roles and responsibilities, extent and limitations of scope of practice, and ways of articulating these things with hospital and health facility administrators, medical staff, and patients.

By the end of this module the psychologist will have mastered a foundation and working knowledge of the statutory, rule, and models that they will operate within and the nations health facilities.

In this course the Medical Psychologist and student of medical psychology will review the array of neurotic disorders with cardinal feature of disruptive and consistent maladaptive poor modulation and adaptation to feelings of anxiety.  These individuals, fixated at the Youthful Developmental level often present as overly driven, other directed and therefore insecure and worried, perfectionistic, tense, and driven individuals who care too much, try to hard, and disrupt feeling and thinking, and behavioral systems while being "too well raised", and feeling inadequate.  They often invest much of this tension in their bodies and have significant somatic symptoms.

The array of well established symptom focused and syndrome and growth oriented psychotherapy interventions, pharmaceutical adjunctive techniques, and behavioral activation and contextual family and social techniques are reviewed.

The very biased and compulsively medicalized published and recommended protocols are held up to the light of the scientific evidence that is contraindicative of "medication only approaches" to these disorders is illuminated.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association has developed and tested a methodology for Primary Care screening of patients using scientifically validated short screening instruments (2-5 minutes) and using these tools to effect Prevention and Psycho-education interviews, Brief Intervention (using techniques to motivate change), Brief Therapy, or Referral to Specialty Therapy.  This system is called SBIRT and allows for the use of several validated screening instruments, and requires follow-through, available referral linkages with specialists as needed, and reimbursement codes have been developed for Medicaid, Medicare, and Insurers.

This module trains the behavioral specialist in the SBIRT method, helps them access approved screening instruments, and prepares them to work in these integrated care systems that hospitals and primary care systems will be developing. 

At the end of this module the psychologist will be familure with the screening, prevention, brief intervention, brief therapy, referral and specialty care required components, and the staffing models and available opportunities for psychologists in these systems. 

Sleep is vital to health and disturbed in a variety of mental, substance abuse, and physical illness and our patterns change over our human life cycle.  This course provides a summary of the research, implications for health and the diagnosis and treatment of disorders and for suicide prevention.

This course presents the scientific data that compels the US Primary Care and Community Hospital System to establish staffing standards for all Medicare and Medicaid reimbursed healthcare system that include doctors of psychology.  These healthcare programs are the hub of the wheel of the US healthcare system and they simply can't take care of the demand for mental health and substance use disorders (SUDs) and the behavioral and psychological aspects of chronic physical disease.  

This section not only provides the doctor of psychology and the Medical Psychologist Specialist with the scientific support for this position, but it provides these doctors with the materials they need to advocate for adequate Bylaws, Policies and Procedures, and administrative support to assist the public in these facilities by removing barriers to their practice to the full extent of their legally authorized  scope of practice (a component of the ACA law).

Medical Psychologists and General Clinical Psychologists will increasingly have to work in, or in close colaboration with, the Primary Care and Community Hospital System.  This system is ever evolving toward a multi-disciplinary team delivery system in an Ingegrated Care Model where the Primary Care Physician is the hub of the healthcare wheel, and psychologists and psychiatrists are in collaboration with the patient's general physician.

This course assists the psychologist with understanding the evolving Medicare Program (which often drives Medicaid and Private Insurance changes) and provides basic skills related to practicing in the Medicare system and facilities that will increasingly require that the psychologist and other doctors are Medicare providers.