Formal Training for Doctors and Physicians Outside Drug Treatment Centers

Formal Training for Doctors and Physicians Outside Drug Treatment Centers

Leaders at the Boston University School of Medicine believe teaching about substance abuse must be incorporated into the training of residents in internal medicine. Substance abuse education of medical students is almost non-existent in medical schools. Physicians need tools and expertise to address one of the most common and expensive health issues.

According to the study authors, medical education has started to tackle the need for substance abuse training for students. Formal curriculum has been developed and evaluated, but integration into a busy, often frantic, residency program is a challenge. Many physicians do not address substance abuse conditions because they often feel uncomfortable talking to patients. Often the problem lies with the physician having insufficient knowledge and deficient clinical skills.

This is where a lot of drug treatment centers pick up after the primary doctors have left things hanging. The doctors and Physicians in these environments have gone above and beyond the typical training taught since the formal training isn't there. When going to these drug treatment centers you know that these doctors have gone the extra mile for your rehabilitation.

The researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine reviewed current physician training about substance abuse. They then described a curriculum that integrates this into internal medicine resident physician training. They describe and link the content to the core competencies mandated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

"The time is right to improve, and require excellence in residency training about unhealthy substance use in internal medicine residency training programs," said lead study author Angela Jackson, M.D., Vice Chair for Education, department of medicine Director, Primary Care Training Program and an associate professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.

"Because clinical management for substance use is most effective when integrated with medical and other care, education should mirror this approach, integrating curricula on unhealthy substance use into overall residency training." This means that now these doctors who have already gone the extra mile in these drug treatment centers will now be backed up with formal training as well to ensure the patients rehabilitation even more. Patients will receive the advice and coaching they need from their trusted primary physician as well as being recommended to drug treatment centers. And these centers will be able to correspond with the primary doctor.

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