PSY - 796 Addiction Medicine

The Rush Addition Medicine elective is designed for medical students to learn: the role of outpatient addiction medicine treatment including the role of opioid replacement treatment for treatment of opioid use disorders, the role of psychosocial and dual diagnosis treatments, and the barriers to starting the medication and linking with treatment, the general approach to patients poisoned by drugs of abuse including recognition of basic toxidromes, the evaluation and treatment of overdoses and toxicities related to drugs of abuse, and the treatment of opioid and alcohol withdrawal syndromes in the inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department setting, the role of harm reduction in treating addiction, including the prescription of the opioid overdose antidote naloxone. and apply skills in application motivational interviewing and the stages of change model to patients with substance use disorders. They will have the opportunty to work directly with the Rush Substance Use Intervention Team and gain an understanding of the breadth of treatments available in the outpatient setting. Students will be trained with materials adapted from the PCSS buprenorphine x-waiver training course in order to make sure are aware how medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders affects and could benefit their patients. Students have a choice of taking this elective for two or four weeks. Retake Counts for Credit: Yes. Pass/No Pass Grading Allowed: Yes. Credit(s): 2-4

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