Enhancement of Medical Student Attitudes in the Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorders: a Follow-up Study

• Published in: Academic psychiatry Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 350 - 351
• Main Authors: De Aquino, Joao P., Moore, David T., Wilkins, Kirsten, Fuehrlein, Brian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Addictions; Addictive behaviors; Alcohol; Attitude; Attitude Change; Core curriculum; Drug use; Electronic Learning; Ethics; Feature: Letter to the Editor; Follow-Up Studies; Followup Studies; Human subjects; Humans; Intervention; Learning Modules; Legal Problems; Likert Scales; Longitudinal Studies; Medical Education; Medical students; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Narcotics; Negative Attitudes; Patients; Personality Problems; Psychiatry; Risk Assessment; Student attitudes; Students, Medical - psychology; Substance abuse treatment; Substance use disorder; Substance-Related Disorders - psychology; Substance-Related Disorders - therapy; Teaching Methods
• ISSN: 1042-9670; 1545-7230; 1545-7230
• DOI: 10.1007/s40596-019-01038-6

[...]effective treatment approaches require a specific set of attitudes from clinicians. [...]to further validate these results, we examined the effects of this educational program by comparing the attitudes of a different cohort of students before and after completion of the curriculum. Compliance with Ethical Standards The Human Subjects Committee at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, reviewed and provided exemption for this study.