Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. In this episode, we present a focused summary of the latest changes in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) with our guest expert — Dr. Michael First, a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, NY. Dr. First is an internationally recognized expert on psychiatric diagnosis and assessment issues, he is the editor and co-chair of the DSM-5 text revision project (DSM-5-TR), the editorial and coding Consultant for the DSM-5, the chief technical and editorial consultant on the World Health Organization ICD-11 revision project and was an external consultant to the NIMH Research Domain Criteria project (RDOC).

The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:

Understand the rationale for undertaking a DSM-5-TR as well as the revision process itself
To become familiar with disorder, text and symptom code additions and modifications to the DSM-5-TR
To understand the purpose and function of the DSM in its current form and be able to contemplate future directions

Guest Expert: Dr. Michael First – staff psychiatrist and professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, USA.

Produced and hosted by: Dr. Alex Raben (staff psychiatrist) and Saja Jaberi (international medical graduate)

Audio editing by: Dr. Alex Raben

Show notes by: Saja Jaberi

Interview Content:

2:53 - Learning objectives

3:34 - Brief description of the DSM and its history

4:54 – ICD vs. DSM

7:43 - Rationale behind the new revision

11:11 - Characteristics of the DSM-5-TR revision process and the people behind it

16:54 - Case presentation and Differential Diagnosis

23:07 - Prolonged Greif disorder

27:04 - Most important changes to the terminology used in the manual

39:34 - Pros and cons of the DSM

44:30 - A brief Comparison to the RDOC Framework

49:04 – Future Directions of the DSM

References

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed. 2013.
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th Text Revision ed. 2022.
DSM-5-TR Fact Sheets https://psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/dsm-5-tr-fact-sheets

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