SAB

Substance Abuse at the Bedside (PHCL 8209)

offered in the Spring semester

1 credit

Time and Location:

• Four mornings to be arranged between the students and course director

• @Hennepin County Medical Center

Statement of Objectives

Substance Abuse at the Bedside is a four week 1 credit course offered graduate students pursing non-clicnical research in the area of addiction. The course is primarily for students in the PharmacoNeuroImmunology training program but is available to other students throughout the sciences.

The main objective of the course is to expose students to clinical issues in addiction. It is hoped that this exposure will allow the student to incorporate these issues into their own research questions, modeling systems, and methodology.

The development of substance use disorders is uniqulely human. Research into the basic pharmacology of drugs, neuropsychopharmacology, and pharmaconeuroimmunology will lead to new and improved modes of addiction presention, treatment, and management of comorbidillnesses. This research is often conducted in cellular and animal models. While all models fall to replicate the human disease of addiction, some are useful. Determining which are useful and how to create new useful models requires an understanding of the human disease.

The course objective is to provide the student with insigh into human issues in addiction. Exposure to the complexity of human illness and its treatment will hopefully lead the student to develop improved basic science methodology and to be a critical reader of the basic science of addiction literature.

Course Enrollment

This 1 credit course will be limited to a maxium of 4 students.

Course Schedule

This course will meet on four separate mornings to be arranged between the students and course director.

The course director will provide students with directions to the appropriate clinical setting prior to each meeting. Students interested in exposure to the smoking cessation clinic will be able to make arrangements to observe during Wednesday afternoon clinicl hours. This is not required but will not obviate need to attend the Thursday morning sessions.

Contact

• Gavin Bart, MD, PhD <bartx005@umn.edu> Course Director

• Yorie Smart <smart006@umn.edu> Course Assistant