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Addiction/Substance Abuse Disorder
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Define substance use disorders (SUD) using DSM 5. What are the Canadian Safe Drinking Guidelines? How do you quickly screen patients for SUD? List clues that a SUD may be present.

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
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Objectives

Clerkship Objectives
  • Substance Use Disorders (including concurrent disorders, and screening assessment tools e.g. CAGE, AUDIT, MAST)
  • Assess (including relevant physical exam) and manage substance use.

Tags

Curriculum Block
Clerkship Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Fever and Hyperthermia Substance Use or Addictive Disorders
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations
MeSH
Alcohol-Related Disorders [F03.900.100] Cocaine-Related Disorders [F03.900.300] Opioid-Related Disorders [C25.775.675] Substance-Related Disorders [F03.900]

Related Activities

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  • Psychiatric Clinical Skills
  • Psychosis Disorders
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  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Personality Disorder
  • Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
  • Introduction to Psychotherapy
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