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THE ASCP MODEL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY CURRICULUM UPDATE

Richard Shelton — University of Alabama at Birmingham

2026 ASCP Annual Meeting

This presentation will review the entire three-year curriculum, including a first year Crash Course along with Basic and Advanced Courses. The full curriculum will comprise more than 80 presentations by experts on the full range of psychopharmacology topics.

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