Registration is closed for thisÌýhalf-day workshop on Addiction Medicine.ÌýThe content was developed to meet the learning needs of physicians, and other healthcare professionals who provide medical care to patients experiencing substance use disorders.
This interactive workshop aimed to strengthen knowledge, skills, and performance of participants in order to effectively respond to an ever-present need in our community to provide top-level patient-centered care.
Workshop Overview
- A multi-disciplinary approach to the management of patients with substance use disorder.
- Case-based, breakout sessions on alcohol, cannabis, and opioid addiction.
- The workshop will be delivered in English with bilingual discussion welcome.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of these presentations, participants were able to:
Opioid Addiction:
- Identify the different types of opioid agonist treatments (OAT) and how they work;
- Initiate/adjust and taper patients on OAT – specifically buprenorphine/naloxone and methadone;
- Feel comfortable educating patients on harm reduction strategies.
Alcohol Addiction:
- Diagnose an alcohol use disorder (AUD), using the DSM-V criteria;
- Describe potential complications of alcohol withdrawal;
- Prescribe a withdrawal protocol for outpatient and inpatient withdrawals;
- Prescribe relapse prevention medications for AUD.
Cannabis Addiction:
- Review the clinical presentation of cannabis use disorder and its impact on concurrent mental health conditions (mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders);
- Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to management of cannabis use disorder;
- Review basic motivational interviewing concepts to assist in brief interventions.
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Credits
- Certified/accredited for up to 3.5 Mainpro+® and MOC Section 1 (Group Learning Activity) credits.
- CMQ: maximum of 3.5 Section A Recognized Hours.
- 3.5-hour workshop eligible for RAMQ reimbursement as a certified professional development activity () for eligible family physicians in Quebec.
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CanMEDS Framework
During this course, the following CanMEDS competencies were covered:
- Medical expert: As Medical Experts, physicians integrate all of the CanMEDS Roles, providing high quality, responsive, community-adaptive care across the lifecycle, from applying medical knowledge, clinical skills, and professional values in their provision of high-quality and compassionate safe patient-centred care.
- Collaborator: Essential for safe, high-quality, patient-centred care, physicians work in unison with patients, families, communities, and other health care providers.
- Health Advocate: As Health Advocates, physicians work and contribute their expertise in partnership with patient populations and communities to improve health care through an understanding of needs, as agents of change, and the mobilization of resources.
- Communicator: Physicians foster therapeutic relationships with patients and their families that facilitate the gathering and sharing of essential information for effective patient health care.
- Leader: Physicians actively engage with others to contribute to implementing and maintaining a high-quality health care system, and take responsibility for delivering excellent patient care through their activities as clinicians, administrators, scholars, and/or teachers.
- Professional: As Professionals, physicians are committed to the health and well-being of their individual patients and society through competent medical practice, ethical practice, accountability to the profession, profession-led regulation and maintenance of personal health.