The Authors’ Own Words: Teaching Residents SBIRT Skills for Alcohol Use: Using Chart-Stimulated Recall to Assess Curricular Impact

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.

Teaching Residents SBIRT Skills for Alcohol Use: Using Chart-Stimulated Recall to Assess Curricular Impact

Maria A. Wamsley, MD; Scott Steiger, MD; Katherine A. Julian, MD; Nathaniel Gleason, MD; Patricia S. O’Sullivan, EdD; Michelle Guy, MD; & Jason M. Satterfield, PhD

Substance Abuse Vol. 37, Iss. 3, 2016

“This study is a prospective cohort study that used chart-stimulated recall to assess primary care internal medicine residents’ use of SBIRT skills and electronic tools to facilitate documentation of alcohol assessment and brief intervention.This article is timely given the increasing focus on integrating substance abuse competencies into internal medicine residency training. Given the widespread adoption of the electronic health record, decision support tools offer promise in reinforcing application of SBIRT skills. Study findings suggest that in order for resident learners to fully benefit from the use of decision support tools, these need to be better integrated into their workflow and their use should be reinforced by teaching faculty. Finally, chart-stimulated recall was a useful tool for better understanding what took place in clinical encounters and how SBIRT was being integrated into clinical practice by residents.”