A collaborative approach to teaching medical students how to screen, intervene, and treat substance use disorders.
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.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. kneufel2@jhmi.edu
Karin J
KJ
Neufeld
Anika
A
Alvanzo
Van L
VL
King
Leonard
L
Feldman
Jeffrey H
JH
Hsu
Darius A
DA
Rastegar
Jorie M
JM
Colbert
Dean F
DF
MacKinnon
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000193:education*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders