Addiction Psychiatry

This two week elective course is designed to provide senior medical students interested in the treatment of patients with substance use disorders with the opportunity to extend and deepen their exposure to addiction psychiatry, including medication-assisted treatment of substance use disorders. The course is likely to be valuable for students planning to pursue specialties other than psychiatry who nevertheless want to be knowledgeable about evidence-based approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders. Students will function as subinterns conducting independent interviews, proposing individualized treatment plans, arranging admission to psychiatric inpatient facilities when necessary, developing transfer plans, and submitting chart notes. In addition, senior medical students serve as mentors to junior clerks, reviewing notes and presentations prior to review by residents and attendings. For this 2 week course, almost all time in the course will be spent in clini