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Undergraduate Medical Education Resources Survey Results

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12 respondents as of 2/15/03

 

Are you currently or have you been involved in medical student education about addiction?

YES-7 NO-0

 

Concerning the following: Have you ever used? (Used)  Have you found useful? (Fd.Usfl.)

 

Movies (commercial; "Hollywood") Used: YES-6 NO-5 Fd.Usfl: YES-5 NO-1

I recommend:

"Traffic"

"Days of Wine and Roses"

"Clean and Sober"

"Permanent Midnight"

"Drug Store Cowboys"

"Trainspotting"

"Lost Weekend"

"Basketball Diaries"

 

Movies (educational) Used: YES-5 NO-4 Fd.Usfl: YES-5 NO-0

I recommend:

"Drug Abuse and the Brain" from NIDA – I use both the full and 30-minute version and a 5-minute edited version, which I prepared depending on the talk and time allotted.
"The Physician Does Make a Difference" – Brown University

Videos

 

Readings (fiction) Used: YES-2 NO-6 Fd.Usfl: YES-1 NO-2

I recommend:

Theatre

 

Readings (popular press) Used: YES-6 NO-4 Fd.Usfl: YES-5 NO-1

I recommend:

Sometimes if there is a recent story pertinent to a topic I am speaking on.

"Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous" by Nan Robertson

"Living Sober" by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services

"The Broken Cord" by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich

"Under the Influence"

 

Readings (academic books or journals) Used: YES-9 NO-1 Fd.Usfl: YES-7 NO-0

I recommend:

"Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment" by Marc Galanter and Herbert Kleber

"The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited" by George E. Vaillant

Web sites Used: YES-4 NO-5 Fd.Usfl: YES-2 NO-0

I recommend:

NIDA

NIAAA

SAMHSA

"Field trips"/Site visits (A.A. meetings, etc) Used: YES-11 NO-1 Fd.Usfl: YES-8 NO-0

I recommend:

I've required the students in their third year psychiatry clerkship to attend an AA meeting. They write a short paper describing their experiences. In general, they appreciate it.

AA visit onsite year 1, offsite years 2-3

 

Volunteer experiences Used: YES-2 NO-5 Fd.Usfl: YES-2 NO-1

 

Summer/spring break programs Used: YES-1 NO-5 Fd.Usfl: YES-1 NO-1

 

Other

I recommend:

One-month senior elective at a substance abuse treatment program

Join AAAP

Clinical rotations in addiction psychiatry practices, especially in-patient and residential treatment programs

Medical Student Psychiatry Interest Group

Interview recovering doctor

Research projects

Clinical electives

 

 

 

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