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Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse - Part One
This course is aimed at practitioners providing advanced service level treatment as part of a shared care or Locally Enhanced Service.
It consists of two e-modules and a one day "Face-to-Face" training event and costs £150 if you attend a locally run event, or £250 if you attend a national event.
The e-modules can be accessed at www.elearning.rcgp.org.uk. Information about Face-2-Face events and how to organize your own events locally are available on the SMU page on the RCGP Website, or contact Lorna Boothe at lboothe@rcgp.org.uk.
Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse - Part Two
This course is aimed at practitioners with a special interest working with substance misusers and individuals intending to take on a leadership or strategic role.
Join the thousands of GPs, pharmacists, nurses, drugs workers and expert patients who have completed training with the RCGP substance misuse unit and are now passionately working at a senior level in their services providing quality treatment to drug users.
You will be able to support local colleagues in the care of drug users and have the confidence to use your knowledge and expertise to facilitate local training and education sessions that support learning for a range of professional groups whose role involves caring for substance misusers.
Comments from students in 2010:
"I am now more aware of prescribing matters, and can confidently work with the GP with regard to titration etc. My case load has been more reflective, and I feel that I am a more confident practitioner." - Nurse
"My working practice with substance misuse clients definitely changed since I started the course, as has my understanding about the non pharmacological management improved." - GP
By the end of the course you will have developed competencies relevant to and suitable for providing interventions at a primary care with a "special interest" level, as outlined in the Department of Health Clinical Guidelines Drug misuse and dependence - UK guidelines on clinical management 2007 (DH 2007). Your newly acquired skills will have provided you with sound lifelong learning habits by using research evidence to inform practice.
This course is the equivalent to nine days study, spread over six months with three mandatory study days to attend and a portfolio of self directed study. Students have to submit their portfolio of work to the RCGP SMAH Unit Assessment Board at the end of the course in order to be awarded the Part Two.
The course costs £1,500 and runs from February to November each year. To download the application pack for the 2012 course please go to the SMU section of the RCGP Website or contact drugmisuse-enquiries@rcgp.org.uk
Certificate in the Management of Alcohol Problems in Primary Care
This course is made up of the Department of Health e-learning modules available at Alcohollearningcentre.org.uk and a one day "Face-to-Face" training event. The training day covers:
- The Evidence Base
- The AUDIT tool and alcohol unit calculation
- Brief Interventions and Motivational interviewing
- Medical Issues, community detoxification and care planning
The course costs £150 if you attend a locally run event and £250 if you attend a nationally run event. To download information about events and how to organize a local event please go to the SMU page on the RCGP Website or contact Sally O'Neill at eventssmu@rcgp.org.uk.
Certificate in the Detection, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B and C in Primary Care
Hepatitis B and C are important causes of morbidity and mortality, but although there are NICE approved treatments, large numbers of people are still not being diagnosed.
The Certificate will help you become confident in detecting, diagnosing and managing patients with Hepatitis B and C, as well as familiarising you with the available treatments and referral pathways.
The Certificate consists of a free online e-module plus a one day training component, and is targeted at GPs, practice nurses and other healthcare professionals. The e-module can be accessed at www.elearning.rcgp.org.uk. Please check the Courses & Events page for details of forthcoming training days.
If you have problems registering or logging in for the e-module please contact the helpdesk on e-learning@rcgp.org.uk.
The RCGP Certificate in Reducing Harm: Maximising Health, Recovery and Wellbeing for People Using Drugs and Alcohol is now available to all GPs and other primary care practitioners interested in learning about how to work with people who use drugs and alcohol, and also as a refresher for those primary care practitioners who have previously completed the RCGP Certificate in the Management of Drug Misuse and want to update their knowledge. It was developed to be congruent with the aims of the new Drug Strategy and has been widely welcomed by policy makers and those in the field who have tested it.
The Certificate consists of a free online e-module; and a paid for face-to-face training day, which will be offered regionally. The e-module can be accessed at www.elearning.rcgp.org.uk. Please check the Courses & Events page for details of forthcoming training days.
If you have problems registering or logging in for the e-module please contact the helpdesk on e-learning@rcgp.org.uk.
To support the Certificate, SMMGP has added a RCGP Certificate Resources section to the Resource Library, containing resource documents for further reading and learning.
The SMU periodically run one day, stand alone CPD events and information about these can be accessed from the Courses & Events page or from the SMU page on the RCGP Website.
Information about the RCGP National Drug Conference can be found in the RCGP Conference section.
The RCGP Substance Misuse Unit runs a number of courses, and more information and application forms can be downloaded from the Substance Misuse Unit (SMU) page on the RCGP Website.
Administrative Team
Manager: Laura Shepherd
E-mail: laura.shepherd@rcgp.org.uk
Tel: 020 3188 7648
Part One Coordinator: Lorna Boothe
E-mail: lboothe@rcgp.org.uk
Tel: 020 3188 7649
Part Two Coordinator: Enrique Ramos
E-mail: eramos@rcgp.org.uk
Tel: 020 3188 7647
Alcohol Certificate Coordinator: Sally O'Neill
E-mail: sally.oneill@rcgp.org.uk
Tel: 020 3188 7650
Programme Coordinator: Marianne Thompson
E-mail: marianne.thompson@rcgp.org.uk
Tel: 020 3188 7653
Clinical Team
The SMU has a clinical team which is made of:
- Clinical Director
- Part One Clinical Lead
- Part Two Clinical Lead
- Academic Lead
- Alcohol Certificate Clinical Lead
- 9 WTE Regional Leads, mapped to the Strategic Health Authority areas
Contact details for all of the above are available on the SMU page on the RCGP Website.
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