The Authors’ Own Words: Faculty Development Efforts to Promote Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in an Internal Medicine Faculty-Resident Practice

The Authors’ Own Words:

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.

Faculty Development Efforts to Promote Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in an Internal Medicine Faculty-Resident Practice

Alanna Stone, MD MPH; Maria Wamsley, MD; Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD; Jason Satterfield, PhD; Derek D. Satre, PhD; & Katherine Julian, MD

Substance Abuse Vol. 38, Iss. 1, 2017

“We believe our paper has important implications both for the teaching and use of SBIRT and the implementation of future faculty development initiatives around substance abuse. SBIRT may enhance rates of screening for substance misuse, and our intervention did show an increase in reported screening by faculty. However, our intervention did not increase reported teaching of SBIRT to residents. Through qualitative interviews and a review of the literature, we suggest that targeted faculty development sessions within the clinical setting and interventions utilizing EHR may be the most effective means of engaging faculty and residents in SBIRT use.”