Centre for Addiction Medicine and NIMHANS Digital Academy

This is a Continued Professional Development Course of 30 hrs approximately: 4 months

Objectives

On course completion,  one should be able to:

• Incorporate Screening and Brief intervention in their clinical practice 

• Differentiating the various factors leading to Addiction/abuse by integrating hereditary, neurobiological and Psycho-social factors for a holistic approach

• Select appropriate and safe pharmacological agents on the basis of best evidence as well as the patient profile for alcohol use disorder

• Review psychosocial management 

• Decision making in referring the patient to expert

A Digital course in the Blended learning format spread over 3 months (12 live sessions and self paced reading materials on LMS): 30hrs approximately

Objectives:

On course completion, the learner should be able to meet the following objectives:

1. Identification, screening for tobacco abuse and Tobacco use disorder and factors influencing it

2. Assess the severity of tobacco addiction by using an objective scale

3. Practice basic counseling and communication skills and brief psychosocial intervention

4. Prescribe over the counter Nicotine replacement therapy

5. Decision making about what can be managed by them and what needs to be referred to.

More details: https://a.vknnimhans.in/CTCCC