We ask authors to describe their impressions regarding the implications of their accepted work, how their findings will change practice, and what is noteworthy about the work.
Addressing Adolescent Substance Use: Teaching Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to Residents
Amy E. Whittle , Sara M. Buckelew , Jason M. Satterfield , Paula J. Lum , Patricia O’Sullivan
Substance Abuse
Vol. 36, Iss. 3, 2015
This paper describes a blended curriculum to teach SBIRT to medical trainees seeing adolescent patients. The authors suggest the use of self-reflection worksheets to help boost trainee skillfulness in motivational interviewing (MI); given the logistic difficulties of observing trainees with patients or of using standardized patients, this approach could offer an efficient way to reinforce principles of MI.