Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Fundamentals of Psychoactive Substances and Process Addictions
Course Code
RPS_032
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine
ECTS
8.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Māris Taube
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Psychiatrist
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Māris Taube
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
To ensure the acquisition of knowledge about the symptoms, course, therapy and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances, in order to be able to diagnose and treat them. Emphasis on psychoactive substances and process addiction.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Knowledge of the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course and basic principles of treatment of mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances; prevention of diseases and disorders; classification of psychoactive substances; the basic principles of creating a motivational conversation.
Skills
1.Skills to collect drug use anamnesis, diagnose addiction and make differential diagnosis; to identify the psychoactive substance that caused the detected mental disorders; provide emergency narcological assistance; motivate the patient to absent from drug use; explain the need for preventive measures; explain the consequences of using psychoactive substances in an understandable way to the patient; draw up a treatment plan
Competences
1.Competences to choose an appropriate investigation plan for establishing a diagnosis, order examinations; correctly diagnose narcological diseases; evaluates the impact of the addiction disease on the state of health; determine treatment according to evidence-based practice; to provide information about the diagnosis and treatment options of the addiction disease to the patient and his relatives; to create a motivating conversation with a patient with an addiction disease; participate in a multiprofessional team.
Assessment
Individual work
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Read additional literature sources, attend thematic LPA and LNB conferences. Practice in daily work: - detection and correct assessment of the symptoms of addiction diseases; - collection of a full-fledged narcological anamnesis with the subsequent drawing up of a treatment and care plan; - work with dual diagnosis patients in a multiprofessional team.
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Examination
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Testing of theoretical knowledge and practical skills once during the cycle with tasks of clinical situations.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Seminar
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Topics
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Narcotic and psychotropic substances. Narcotic intoxication. Psychiatric and behavioral disorders due to the use of opioids, sedatives and hypnotics.
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Mental and behavioral disorders in narcotics due to the use of psychostimulants and hallucinogens.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
8.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
2
Length (weeks):
6
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Slimību profilakses un kontroles centrs. Klīniskie algoritmi un pacientu ceļi. Psihiskā veselība. 2020.
2.
Kaplan & Sadocks. Synopsis of Psychiatry. Editors B.J. Sadock, V.A. Sadock. 11th edition. Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2015.
3.
Addiction medicine. Richard K. Ries, David A. Fiellin, Shannon C. Miller, Richard Saitz. 5th edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2014.