Addictions
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
This session focuses on the complex psychosocial issues that underlie addictions and is designed to complement your knowledge of the neurophysiological mechanisms of addiction. This session builds on your understanding of trauma as there is a strong connection between trauma and addiction. It also builds on your understanding of the relationship between gender and health outcomes as gender is an important variable in addiction.
Curriculum Block
Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 6
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Objectives
General Objectives
- Develop the attitude and skills for responding to patients with cultural humility.
- Identify the diverse factors (ie. sociocultural, psychological, institutional, economic, occupational, environmental, technological, legal, political and spiritual) that contribute to the systemic marginalization of vulnerable populations and impact health and health care delivery.
- Summarize different “ways of knowing” about the body and how these ways affect the clinical encounter.
- Recognize how an interdisciplinary team can help manage a patient with complex chronic disease.
- Identify a patient centered approach to care for individuals with chronic illnesses.
- Demonstrate skills for critical intersectional analysis.
- Analyze and critically reflect on how the impact of physician power and privilege may contribute to disparities through biased care.
- Plan socially-just courses of action in order to respond to the diverse factors that intersect and overlap to influence the health of the individuals, families and communities.
Assessments
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Interim Student Assessment
PC Integrative Exercise
Tags
Curriculum Block
Part 5
Professional Competencies IF
Week 6
Curriculum Week
IF
Week 6
MCC Presentations
Substance Use or Addictive Disorders
Trauma
McMaster Professional Competency
Professionalism and Self-Awareness
Social, Cultural and Humanistic Dimensions of Health
McMaster Program Competencies
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds
4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics
5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others
MeSH
Alcohol Drinking [F01.145.317.269]
Behavior, Addictive [F01.145.527.100.120]
Cannabis [B06.388.100.175.500]
Neurophysiology [H01.158.782.562]
Opioid-Related Disorders [C25.775.675]
Psychosocial Support Systems [I01.880.853.500.600.500]
Smoking [F01.145.466.753]
Substance-Related Disorders [C25.775]
Substance-Related Disorders [F03.900]
Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders [F03.950]
