Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Basics of Addiction Psychiatry, Alcohol Addiction
Course Code
RPS_033
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine
ECTS
14.00
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 mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances symptomatology, therapy and prevention in order to be able to diagnose and treat them. Special emphasis on alcohol 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 anamnesis, diagnose addiction and perform differential diagnosis; to identify the psychoactive substance that caused the detected mental disorders; provide emergency narcological assistance; motivate the patient to develop abstinence; 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 complete narcological anamnesis with subsequent treatment and care plan drafting;
- 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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Addiction to psychoactive substances as biopsychosocial problem. Neurobiology and Epidemiology of Addiction. Those regulating the treatment of addicted patients regulatory documents.
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Mental and behavioral disorders of alcohol consumption. Addiction syndrome
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Alcohol, narcotic, psychotropic and toxic substances impact determination procedure. Documentation, determination of state of intoxication, medical inspection opinions. Sampling of materials
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Alcoholic delirium, psychotic disorders, encephalopathy - diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment. principles of therapy.
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Biopsychosocial interventions in addiction treatment
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Addiction treatment approaches, drug therapy
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
14.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
6
Length (weeks):
10
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.