Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Substance Abuse Skill OSCEs

Baez, Annecy; Eckert-Norton, Margaret; Morrison, Ann

doi:10.1300/j465v25n03_04

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“…Several authors have reported on medical student education programs that involve SPs trained to portray people with alcohol problems (33, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46). SPs portraying individuals with a history of alcohol and/or drug use have been used to assess nursing (47) and medical (48, 49) students’ ability to obtain substance abuse histories. Importantly, in a survey of community-based clinicians, Saitz and colleagues (50) found that trainings for screening and brief intervention for substance abuse problems that included role play with standardized patients were associated with high percentages of reported impacts on practice, use of formal screening questionnaires, and assessments for readiness to change.…”

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Evaluating and Training Substance Abuse Counselors: A Pilot Study Assessing Standardized Patients as Authentic Clients

2009

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Clinician training and supervision are needed to transfer evidence-based practices to community based treatment organizations. Standardized patients (SPs) are used for clinician training and evaluating. However, to be effective for substance abuse counselors, SPs must realistically portray substance abuse treatment clients. The current study assessed authenticity of SPs as substance abuse treatment clients. Twenty-one substance abuse counselors interviewed SP(s) with differing profiles. Counselors provided quantitative and qualitative ratings of SP authenticity. Counselor responses to the study procedures were analyzed as well. Quantitative results include high authenticity ratings for the SPs but counselors' subjective responses varied. Counselor's rated the experience of participating in the study positively and provided constructive comments for future applications of this methodology. Results support future work on SPs as teaching and evaluation tools in substance abuse counseling. Findings also illustrate the need to refine definitions of authenticity for SPs as substance abuse clients.

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