This presentation was originally reviewed on June 29, 2025, and live streamed online on July 2, 2025, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET.

Despite growing evidence that placebo effects significantly impact outcomes in both pain and mental health treatment, clinicians often underutilize these mechanisms in everyday practice. This gap persists due to limited education on the neurobiology of placebo responses and how to ethically integrate expectancy, patient-clinician interaction, and learning history into care. This presentation addresses this clinical blind spot by translating laboratory-based discoveries into actionable clinical strategies. Attendees will gain practical tools to recognize and leverage placebo mechanisms to enhance therapeutic response, particularly in chronic pain and mental health contexts, leading to more informed, personalized, and effective patient care.

This presentation was last reviewed on March 13, 2025, and broadcast live online on October 7, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET. 

The arts and humanities play a fundamental role in health professions education. Integrating A&H pedagogical methods into health professions education supports clinical skill mastery, perspective taking, personal insight, and social advocacy. This highly interactive talk will focus on Visual Thinking Strategies, an evidence-based arts and humanities method that enhances individual attributes crucial to clinical care, including implicit bias awareness and critical thinking, while contributing to inclusive learning spaces by minimizing pre-existing hierarchies and fostering team cohesion. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a Visual Thinking Strategies discussion and reflect together on how Visual Thinking Strategies supports the development of clinically relevant attributes, as well as facilitative teaching and leadership skills, informed by an understanding of the method’s key elements.

This presentation was last reviewed on July 18, 2024, and broadcast live online on September 9, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM ET. 

This presentation was last reviewed on July 15, 2024, and broadcast live online on May 13, 2022, from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET. 

This presentation was last reviewed on December 4, 2023, and was live in-person on June 6, 2019, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET. 

As clinical trials progress in the United States, the potential for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for various indications to become an approved prescription treatment looks increasingly promising. Clinicians interested in new treatment options for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders can learn the basics on psychedelic-assisted therapy treatment elements and the current state of the research. This information will be presented to help clinicians consider how psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy might be used in the future to serve their patient populations and highlight key ethical considerations in this area.

This presentation was originally reviewed on October 5, 2022, and broadcast live online on October 7, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET. 

This presentation was originally reviewed on September 1, 2022, and broadcast live online on September 9, 2022, from 1:oo PM – 4:15 PM ET.