The Authors’ Own Words: Promoting Addiction Medicine Teaching through Functional Mentoring by Co-Training Generalist Chief Residents with Faculty Mentors

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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.

Promoting Addiction Medicine Teaching through Functional Mentoring by Co-Training Generalist Chief Residents with Faculty Mentors

Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH; Brittany L. Carney, MS; Angela H. Jackson, MD; Belle Brett, EdD; Carly Bridden, MA, MPH; Michael Winter, MPH; & Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH

Substance Abuse Vol. 39, Iss. 3, 2018

“A functional mentoring approach to co-train generalist chief residents and their faculty mentors facilitated completion and impact of a focused addiction medicine teaching project. This educational study evaluated an immersive addiction medicine training program for emerging change leaders (chief residents) both with and without seasoned residency program faculty counterparts (mentors). After the training, all chief residents reported high levels of addiction medicine teaching with those co-trained chief residents having teaching projects with greater impact and completion rates. This novel and immersive functional mentoring approach may be translated to other aspects of medical education and training that may benefit from this model.”