Primer on Addiction Pharmacology : A self-learning certificate module
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Our goal is to provide evidence-based guidance to healthcare professionals in order to improve the treatment outcomes for patients with substance use disorders.
Learning Objectives?
Understanding of the role of pharmacotherapy in treating addiction, its mechanism of action, and its effectiveness.
Compare and contrast the different types of pharmacotherapies for addiction
Apply the knowledge gained in the module to develop evidence-based treatment plans for patients with addiction
By achieving these learning objectives, learners should be able to gain a solid foundation in addiction psychopharmacology and develop the skills needed to provide effective treatment to individuals with addiction.
Who are the Potential Learners?
This course is designed for psychiatrists, and other health care professionals and who have a foundation knowledge of substance use disorders, but would like a deeper understanding of the evidence-based pharmacotherapies for their management.
Overview of content?
Pharmacotherapy plays an important role in treating addiction, and several medications have been approved for use in different types of addiction
This e-learning module will cover medications used in the treatment of most common addictions- tobacco, alcohol, opioid, cannabis, Sedative-hypnotic, stimulant, and behavioural addiction.
To provide clarity and ease of understanding, pharmacology for each addiction will be described in seven separate chapters.
Each Lesson starts with the objectives
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Introduction: Provide an overview of the chapter and its learning objectives.
Each Topic covered in each chapter. It will include:
Include a 500 word write up about the same
Each lesson ends with Quiz : 5 questions : 5 single answer or multiple answer, pass mark >80%
This is the outline of this Certificate Module
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