The ASAM Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine 40-Hour Program seeks to help learners achieve nine identified competencies in the addiction medicine field.
- Interact with patients and professional colleagues so as to display professionalism in all activities, by demonstrating commitment to the health and well-being of individuals and society through ethical practice, profession-led regulation, and high personal standards of behavior.
- Identify their feelings and attitudes that promote or prevent therapeutic responses to their patients with substance use disorders.
- Understand the addictive disorders as developmental biopsychosocial disorders.
- Take an evidence-based approach to detecting substance use disorders.
- Respond to positive substance use screening results with brief counseling strategies, appropriate to the patient’s readiness to change.
- Use motivational interviewing with patients ambivalent about changing their substance use behavior.
- Conduct a biopsychosocial and developmental ambulatory assessment of an adult with a suspected SUD to match the patient to an appropriate level of care.
- List the indications, contraindications and duration of treatment of evidence based pharmacotherapy for alcohol, tobacco, and opioid use disorders and refer patient to specialty care where appropriate.
- Reflect on the role of behavioral interventions for patients and families including formal intensive ambulatory and inpatient treatment and informal programs such as mutual aid groups in the recovery process for patients in their practice/ communities.
The 40 hour CME curriculum is structured around these nine competencies, of which each competency has several learning objectives. Activities in the curriculum will align with at least one of the learning objectives.
View the full ASAM Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine 40-Hour Program Blueprint: Competencies and Curriculum Learning Objectives.