Social Workers as Workplace-Based Instructors of Alcohol and Drug Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Emergency Medicine Residents

Abstract

Social work colleagues can be effective in teaching SBIRT to residents in the workplace, and our residents highly valued learning from social workers, who all had prior training in motivational interviewing. In the implementation of this curriculum, the clinical demands of residents must be taken into account when teaching occurs, and having multiple social worker instructors was instrumental.

Critical Appraisal of Emergency Medicine Educational Research: The Best Publications of 2016

“…Similar to prior years, the most common study populations were medical students (21/75; 28%) and residents (48/75; 64%) . Interestingly, this year only one study addressing medical students was highlighted for excellence, in contrast to prior years.…”

“…As the field of medical education continues to grow, we expect that this trend will continue. There was a decrease in the number of funded studies in 2016; 11% of all articles compared to 20% in 2015 and 16% in 2014. There is some literature to suggest that funded medical education research may be of higher quality .…”

“…Three of these studies with an experimental design were highlighted . There was a decline in the number of observational studies (35/75; 47%), compared to 2015 (36/61; 59%), but an increase in the number of studies using survey methodology (19/75; 25%) in 2016 compared to 10 of 61, 16% in 2015, and 0% in 2014. It should be noted that all survey studies in this review drew data from participants from multiple institutions per the predetermined selection criteria.…”

“…In place of assessment we have seen the resurgence of studies evaluating teaching and learning methods, which comprised 36% of reviewed articles in 2014, was not seen in 2015 and now makes up 20% of the included articles in this year's review. Similarly, curriculum evaluation studies that made up 38% of studies in 2013 dropped to 10% in 2015 and have again risen to 20% in 2016. Procedural teaching and learning remained fairly stable (8% of articles in 2016 and 12% in 2015).…”

An Interprofessional Education Pilot Program on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Improves Student Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes

“…As a result of the need for IPE, a number of investigative educators have developed and studied interprofessional training for students to better prepare them for the workforce (Duong, O'Sullivan, Satre, Soskin, & Satterfield, 2016;Monteiro et al, 2017;Neander et al, 2018;Neft, 2018;Peterson, 2017). Collectively, these programs have demonstrated that interprofessional trainings have high satisfaction among students and enhance interprofessional competence, condition specific knowledge, skill, and attitudes around SBIRT and working with patients with substance use disorders.…”