title: Multispecialty screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) training in an academic medical center: Resident training experience across specialties.
abstract: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has recently begun to fund programs that train medical residents on how to utilize an evidence-based validated system known as screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for providing early detection and brief treatment of unhealthy substance use. This paper investigates training outcomes of multispecialty SBIRT training at one such program at Albany Medical Center (AMC), one of the initial SAMHSA grantees.
  
  
  
  Training outcomes were measured across 3 domains of learning: trainee satisfaction, acquired knowledge, and perceived usefulness. The authors explored differences in learning experience by postgraduate year and by specialty.
  
  
  
  Overall, residents were highly satisfied with the training, and learning outcomes met objectives. Residents' ratings of usefulness did not vary by program year. However, the results indicate that relative to residents in other programs, residents in psychiatry and pediatrics found the training components significantly more useful, whereas emergency medicine residents found training components to have less utility. Residents who found the training relevant to their daily work were more satisfied and more receptive to SBIRT training overall, which may help explain difference scores by program.
  
  
  
  Residents were highly satisfied with SBIRT skills training, although ratings of usefulness varied by residency program. Specialization by program and on-site modeling by senior faculty may enhance trainee satisfaction and perceived usefulness.
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: A Jill
authors: AJ
authors: Clemence
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Victoria I
authors: VI
authors: Balkoski
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Bianca M
authors: BM
authors: Schaefer
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Minsun
authors: M
authors: Lee
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Nicole
authors: N
authors: Bromley
authors: b Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Isabelle M
authors: IM
authors: Maisonneuve
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Christopher J
authors: CJ
authors: Hamilton
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Mark R
authors: MR
authors: Lukowitsky
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Poston
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Schekeva
authors: S
authors: Hall
authors: a Department of Psychiatry , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Portia
authors: P
authors: Pieterse
authors: c Department of Pediatrics , Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Angela
authors: A
authors: Antonikowski
authors: b Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College , Albany , New York , USA.
authors: Stanley D
authors: SD
authors: Glick
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000193:education; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Brief intervention; SBIRT training; residents; substance use disorders