title: A scoping review of interdisciplinary collaboration in addictions education and training.
abstract: Developing a workforce of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals equipped with the knowledge and skills to collaboratively address the public health crisis of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use is critical for effectively identifying, preventing, and managing AOD conditions and their sequelae. Despite general enthusiasm for interdisciplinary education and training, little is known overall about the nature and outcomes of interdisciplinary collaboration in addictions education and training. We conducted a five-stage scoping review of the literature to provide an eight domain overview of the state of interdisciplinary collaboration in addictions education (ICAE). In our final review of 30 articles, we identified a lack of conceptual and terminological clarity around ICAE but a wide range of learners and professional collaborators in ICAE initiatives, which focused on a variety of AOD topics and used a constellation of didactic, interactive, and service-learning teaching strategies and formats. Although we found limited substantive educational or practice-oriented outcomes available for ICAE initiatives, learner and faculty feedback reflected high enthusiasm for ICAE and widespread perceptions of benefit for improved clinical care. Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of ICAE initiatives occurred at the level of the individual and the institution and ranged from pragmatic to conceptual. Emerging trends in ICAE initiatives included increased application of learning and implementation theory and extension of ICAE into research training. We conclude with recommendations to support ICAE as a new paradigm for addictions education for all health professionals.
authors.affiliation: Lauren M. Broyles, PhD, RN, and Adam J. Gordon, MD, MPH, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion and Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, and Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. James W. Conley, BA, Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. John D. Harding Jr., BA, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Lauren M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Broyles
authors.forename: James W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Conley
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Harding
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Gordon
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004517:Education, Professional; D006801:Humans; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies; D010348:Patient Care Team; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*