Abstract
Few medical schools require a stand-alone course to develop knowledge and skills relevant to substance use disorders (SUDs). The authors successfully initiated a new course for second-year medical students that used screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) as the course foundation. The 15-hour course (39 faculty teaching hours) arose from collaboration between faculty in Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry and included 5 hours of direct patient interaction during clinical demonstrations and in small-group skills development. Pre-and post-exam results suggest that the course had a significant impact on knowledge about SUDs. The authors experience demonstrates that collaboration between 2 clinical departments can produce a successful second-year medical student course based in SBIRT principles.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 286-291 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Substance Abuse |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Knowledge assessment
- and referral to treatment (SBIRT)
- brief intervention
- medical school curricula
- screening
- skills training
- substance use disorders
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Medicine (miscellaneous)