 |
 |
 |
 |
SBIRT stands for screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment— an evidence-based, effective method to intervene in alcohol and drug misuse, but that is currently underused in the primary care setting in the United States.
Because we believe that primary care clinicians of the future will practice in the team-based environment of the “patient-centered medical home”, our SBIRT Oregon curriculum begins with teaching a specific office process in which annual screening is conducted by clinic staff using paper or electronic medical record screening tools. We then teach our resident physicians to perform patient-centered brief interventions through video examples and role play. Having completed the three-hour curriculum, they return to their clinics with office screening systems in place, ready to immediately take part in a process that can usually be carried out within the context of a 15- minute primary care visit.
Our project, sited at the OHSU Family Medicine Department, is one of 18 residency curriculum projects supported by SAMHSA to teach the SBIRT method to primary care physicians. We are on track to train almost 400 Internal, Preventive, and Family Medicine residents throughout the state of Oregon. As these physicians graduate from residency and enter their own medical practices, they will be more confident and better equipped to help patients with substance misuse problems and will make a meaningful difference in the health of our Oregon communities.
Because we believe that primary care clinicians of the future will practice in the team-based environment of the “patient-centered medical home”, our SBIRT Oregon curriculum begins with teaching a specific office process in which annual screening is conducted by clinic staff using paper or electronic medical record screening tools. We then teach our resident physicians to perform patient-centered brief interventions through video examples and role play. Having completed the three-hour curriculum, they return to their clinics with office screening systems in place, ready to immediately take part in a process that can usually be carried out within the context of a 15- minute primary care visit.
Our project, sited at the OHSU Family Medicine Department, is one of 18 residency curriculum projects supported by SAMHSA to teach the SBIRT method to primary care physicians. We are on track to train almost 400 Internal, Preventive, and Family Medicine residents throughout the state of Oregon. As these physicians graduate from residency and enter their own medical practices, they will be more confident and better equipped to help patients with substance misuse problems and will make a meaningful difference in the health of our Oregon communities.