Addiction Medicine or Addiction Psychiatry: Where do core competencies and training needs belong?

Most countries do not have training programs in addiction, leaving large populations of affected individuals untreated or inadequately treated. Three presenters will discuss their work on surveys to assess training needs in addiction. In addition, the difference between training of addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry will be discussed.

Cornelius deJong, after a review of his comprehensive global addiction medicine- training needs assessment (AM-TNA), discussed in another presentation, will focus on future AM-TNA projects, including an expansion of the survey and establishing a survey platform.

Rania Mamdouh will discuss the ICUDDR Core Competencies Needs Assessment in 29 Egyptian Universities. The ICUDDR needs assessment questionnaire was translated into the Arabic language and was distributed via email to psychiatry, psychology, public health, toxicology, internal medicine, social sciences, nursing and family medicine departments across 29 Egyptian universities. Resulting Data on available addiction curricula in Egyptian universities and the need for which topics and which kind of training are needed will be discussed in the presentation. She will discuss the need for specialised training curriculum in addiction psychiatry and medicine and discuss the difference between the curricula.

Rabia Bilici will discuss a similar survey among trainees and physicians in Turkey.

Carol Weiss will discuss the history of addiction treatment and training in the United States, through the lens of the different approaches to understanding and treating addiction in the two fields of psychiatry and medicine.