Addiction Psychiatry Externship (4 to 8 Credit Hours)

Catalog description

Provides the exposure to the diagnosis and treatment of addiction disease with and without medical and psychiatric co-morbidity. Student will become familiar with the clinical practice of addiction psychiatry at various levels of care to include inpatient, residential partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and outpatient treatment settings. Patient population may include adolescents, young adults, geriatric, as well as adult patients. Patient care will include detoxification, psychopharmacology, individual, group and milieu therapy and 12 step facilitator. Lecture Hours: 2 Contact Hours: 40 to 45 Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory, Audit College Restrictions: Medical College of Georgia Schedule Type (Primary): Lecture/Supervised Lab/Clinic Click here for the Schedule of Classes.