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标题：Effects of Implementing an Interactive Substance Use Disorders Workshop on a Family Medicine Clerkship
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作者：Rebecca E. Cantone ; Nonda S. Hanneman, BA ; Matthew G. Chan 等
期刊名称：Family Medicine
印刷版ISSN：0742-3225
电子版ISSN：1938-3800
出版年度：2021
卷号：53
期号：4
页码：295-299
DOI：10.22454/FamMed.2021.399314
出版社：Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
摘要：Background and Objectives: Substance use disorders (SUD) remain a public health crisis and training has been insufficient to provide the skills necessary to combat this crisis. We aimed to create and study an interactive, destigmatizing, skills-based workshop for medical students to evaluate if this changes students’ self-reported knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward patients with SUD. Methods: We surveyed students on a required family medicine outpatient rotation at a Pacific Northwest medical school during clerkship orientation on their views regarding SUDs utilizing the validated Drug and Drug Problems Perceptions Questionnaire containing a 7-point Likert scale. After attending a substance use disorder workshop, they repeated the survey. We calculated differences between the paired pre- to postsurveys. Results: We collected the pre- and postdata for 118 students who attended the workshop and showed statistically significant positive differences on all items. Conclusions: The positive change in the medical students’ reported attitudes suggests both necessity and feasibility in teaching SUD skills in a destigmatizing way in medical training. Positive changes also suggest a role of exposing students to family medicine and/or primary care as a strategy to learn competent care for patients with substance use disorders.