My goal for you in this section is to have some familiarity with the assessment of depression and suicidal ideation. The podcast is directed toward emergency providers, but most of the principles of assessing safety risk and determining whether a person needs full court press psych admission vs. less aggressive treatment will hold true for you. Its important to note that you should never be making these decisions on your own, but especially if you are in the situation of having to call in a tele-medicine consult, familiarity with these screening tools will ensure that you are asking all the right questions and will already have a sense of how severe this patient's illness truly is.

You can listen to the podcast or read its transcript, familiarize yourself with the C-SSRS and the DSM-5 criteria, and then your test will be a detailed assessment of a single patient using all of these tools.