An initiative for teaching about alcohol and other drugs in Australian medical schools.
Education in Australian medical schools is presently under review, including teaching about alcohol and other drugs. In August 1986, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, Australia (ADFA) presented to the Deans of Australasian medical faculties (including those of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand) a number of options to develop the alcohol and other drugs content of medical courses. It was proposed that a coordinator of education in alcohol and other drugs be appointed in medical faculties; this proposal had been modelled on the US Career Teacher Training Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse. The Deans expressed interest in ADFA's proposal. This paper discusses the role of undergraduate medical education in alcohol and other drugs, and the background to, and some guide-lines from, the ADFA proposal.
Gladstone
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University of New South Wales, Kensington.
Webster
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Rotem
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D000437:Alcoholism; D001315:Australia; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005367:Fiji; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D010219:Papua New Guinea; D012577:Schools, Medical; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders