2021 Jan: Management Of Addictive Disorders: An Advanced Certificate Programme-Doctors-Psychiatrist

Substance use disorders (SUDs/Addiction) (alcohol and other drug misuse) account for 5.4% of the world annual disease burden. While tobacco and alcohol have been the major legal substances of abuse in India, there has been a rapid and substantial increase in the use of marijuana, newer drugs of abuse (methamphetamine, LSD) and pharmaceuticals.
Adolescents are experimenting with drugs much earlier, placing them at a higher risk for addiction and related harm. Substance use has a substantial impact on not only on the user’s physical and mental health, but also has devastating consequences for the family and society at large. The growing problem of addictions (alcohol, drugs and behavioral health issues like gambling and internet addiction) on the one hand and lack of trained service providers on the other hand, led to a huge “treatment gap”. There is an urgent need to bridge this treatment gap in this specialized area of public health importance.

Potential Learners:

1. Psychiatrists

2. MD/DPM/DNB Psychiatry Residents (Completed or Ongoing).

3. Doctors (MBBS or above) who have completed the online “Certificate course in Basics of Addiction Management” course from CAM and VKN NDA ECHO.

Program Benefits:

1. Becoming equipped to handle patients with addiction related issues 

2. Focussing on patient-centric care and increasing knowledge about evidence-based practice for addictive disorders

3. Becoming part of an addiction treatment experts network and real-time access and interaction with like-minded clinicians 

4. Certificate of completion if fulfilling the course requirements

Curriculum 

https://vkn.nimhansdigitalacademy.in/AdvAddictionMx21

Duration:

60hrs (46 hrs live sessions by zoom video conference at VKN ECHO + 14 hours self paced e-learning at elearn.vknnimhans.in)

1. More than 75% Attendance (17/23 sessions) in the weekly Friday@2.30PM Tele-ECHO VKN clinics as measured by the software and your video presence( >90 minutes video presence  for each live session).

2. Presentation of Two Substance Use related patient case summaries at Friday weekly Tele-ECHO VKN clinic. Follow up of one case is also acceptable.

3. Completion of SIX e-Assignments at elearn.vknnimhans.in and score >75% for each Assignment: A second attempt will be permissible to those who cannot clear the assignments in the first attempt. Each attempt for all four assignments will be online for 48 hours, after which the link will be disabled.

4. Monthly reports of patients seen from January  2021 onwards

5. Completion of pre-test and post-test

Lead Facilitator : Dr. Udit Panda, MD, DNB, PDF (Addiction Medicine) Consultant Psychiatrist, Project VKN Odisha ECHO,  NIMHANS DIgital Academy

Co-lead/clinical case facilitator: Dr Daniel, Senior Resident Psychiatry

Co-lead/Clinical Case Facilitator: Dr Sudheendra H, MD, Senior Resident, Centre for Addiction Medicine

Co-Lead/Clinical case Facilitator: Dr Deepak G, MD, Senior Resident, Centre for Addiction Medicine

Chief Coordinator: Ms Likitha

IT Support Analyst: Ms. Sanchitha, Mr Manjunatha,Mr Dhanush, Mr Kubenthiran, 

Elearn edutech support: Ms Srilakshmi

Facilitator : Dr. Prabhat Chand MD, DNB Faculty Centre for Addiction Medicine and NIMHANS Digital Academy

1. Live tele-ECHO : zoom telehealth video conference

2. Case record proforma: jotform HIPAA compliant

3. E-learning, Assignment, chat and forum: elearn.vknnimhans.in (Moodle platform app)

4. Pretest and post test

5. Interaction and engagement during VKN ECHO: slido, Quizz

6. Feedback: iECHO spark

7. Invitation and thanks: Mailerlite

1. Design

Face to Face in zoom telehealth Weekly Fridays 2.30 -4.40 PM : 46 hrs live sessions by zoom telehealth video conference at VKN ECHO. Live tele-ECHO starting from 15th January 2021 (Friday)

Selfpaced e-learning : 14 hours e-learning at elearn.vknnimhans.in contents, reading materials including assignments 

2. Key part

The primary focus here is learning by  presentation of their patients by participants in the Friday tele-ECHO clinics.

3. How to present case

Will provide a secured e-EHR for case intake.

4. Digital tool: How secure they are?
Zoom: Video conferencing for telehealth: with HIPAA compliance and signed BAA.
Case Record proforma: Jotform HIPAA compliant.
Moodle : elearn.vknnimhans.in

5. Where does the course contribution go?
It is deposited in the Project account of NIMHANS Digital Academy. NIMHANS is a central government institution, MOHFW India. Fees used to purchase the secured software, learning tool, support staffs. 

6. What if I missed the assignment?
Kindly note that, two attempts are allowed. 48hrs is the time frame >75% score is needed to qualify.

5. Certificate
There is NO Certificate of participation ONLY Completion Certificate after fulfilling all accreditation criteria.