The curriculum standards are summarised as 23 learning goals. The learning goals articulate what trainees need to be, do and know, and are assessed throughout training.

BE
  1. Professional behaviours
DO
  1. Team leadership
  2. Supervision and teaching
  3. Quality improvement
  4. Communication with patients
  5. Assessment and treatment planning
  6. Acute withdrawal management
  7. Prescribing
  8. Managing substance use in pregnancy
  9. Undertaking consultation-liaison work
  10. Clinic management
KNOW
  1. Scientific foundations of addiction and related problems
  2. Public health aspects of substance use and behavioural addictions
  3. Withdrawal management
  4. Psychological and pharmacological approaches to treatment
  5. Prescribing for opioid dependence
  6. Assessment and management of behavioural addictions
  7. Mental health problems and cognitive impairment
  8. Medical conditions associated with substance use
  9. Substance use and addiction disorders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and Māori
  10. Substance use and behavioural addictions across diverse population
  11. Medicolegal framework
  12. Pain and dependence
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