Curricula Descriptions
Substance Abuse Curriculum
| Goals: |
| To identify substance use/abuse with its dysfunctional behaviors and to identify appropriate treatment resources/modalities based on stage of disease. |
| Objectives: |
- To develop knowledge of:
- Personal barriers to diagnosis and treatment
- Commonly used drugs and their physiologic effects, metabolism, routes of administration
- Risk factors for abuse/dependence, e.g. environmental and genetic
- Criteria for defining abuse, dependence, addiction
- Symptoms, physical signs, laboratory evidence of use
- Serum and urine drug screening
- Disease concept of substance use disorders
- The impact of substance disorders on society and the family
- Enabling behavior
- Legal and ethical issues:
- Confidentiality
- Pregnancy
- The impaired health professional
- Management of withdrawal
- Community treatment resources
- Stages of behavior change
- Skills
- Prevention through education
- Use of appropriate screening instruments
- Appropriate treatment referral
- Assessment of current level of use and its impact on social, psychologic and physical well-being
- Medical management of drug intoxication and withdrawal
- The brief office intervention
- Attitudes:
- Substance dependence is preventable
- Anticipation and acceptance of denial, dishonesty, and anger as common behaviors inherent to substance use
- Understanding that substance dependence is a chronic, relapsing and remitting but treatable disease
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Teaching Strategies—rotations, tactics, resources
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| Noon Lectures |
Rotation/Cycle |
Responsible Faculty |
| Alcohol Abuse |
3 yrs |
Dr. Arnold |
| Stimulant Abuse |
... |
Dr. Arnold |
| Narcotic/Prescription Drug Abuse |
... |
... |
| Disease Concept of Substance Dependence |
... |
Psychiatry |
| Pain Management |
... |
Anesthesia |
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Rotation Experiences/Activities (Items marked with * address other curriculum goals and objectives but are integrated during this rotation.)
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- Psychiatry / Behavioral Science
- Videotape Review of Resident’s Clinic
- Family Practice Service
- Internal Medicine
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Last updated: 8/20/07
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