Eight years joining CPDD drug problems conference
Some things in academia can become so much fabric of your life that you stop counting years. The conference of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) is one of those things. With the 2020 conference coming up soon, this blog summarises my annotated posters presented over eight years. (more…)
Why Cochrane collaboration makes strongest researchers
So what has the Cochrane membership done for me? Inspired by Dr Jeremy Grimshaw’s question: “So what has the Cochrane Collaboration ever done for us?” I submit a report card, a mosaic of my previous blogs, on my first 10 years with Cochrane.
Addiction training provision must meet training needs
Closing the gap between training needs and training provision in addiction medicine
Substance use disorders pose a significant global social and economic burden. Although effective interventions exist, treatment coverage remains limited.
The lack of an adequately trained workforce is one of the prominent reasons.
Recent initiatives improved training nationally, but further efforts are required to build curricula that are internationally applicable. We therefore believe that the training needs of professionals in the area have not yet been explored in sufficient detail.
Addiction training provision must meet training needs
We propose that a peer-led survey to assess those needs, using a standardised structured tool, would help to overcome this deficiency.
The findings from such a survey could be used to develop a core set of competencies which is sufficiently flexible in its implementation to address the specific needs of the wide range of professionals working in addiction medicine worldwide.
Source: Arya, S., Delic, M., Ruiz, B., Klimas, J., Papanti, D., Stepanov, A., . . . Krupchanka, D. (2019). Closing the gap between training needs and training provision in addiction medicine. BJPsych International, 1-3. doi:10.1192/bji.2019.27
If you enjoyed reading about this research, you might enjoy reading about a similar needs assessment here:
Scoping the needs of early career addiction specialists, Protocol
Boost for Oral Opioid Agonist Therapy
Although opioid agonist treatment is effective in treating opioid use disorders, retention in such treatment is suboptimal in part due to quality of care issues. A new initiative sought to boost treatment of opioid use disorders so that people stay there longer. This article describes how teams did in a structured quality improvement initiative in Vancouver, Canada. (more…)
Closing gap between workforce needs and training provision in addiction medicine
Substance use disorders represent a significant social and economic burden globally. While effective interventions exist, the overall treatment coverage remains limited, with lack of an adequately trained workforce as one of the prominent reasons.
World over, recent initiatives have been taken to improve the training in addiction medicine; however, further efforts are required in building curricula that are internationally applicable. Here, we present a recent paper published in the British Journal of Psychiatry – International, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-international