Monday, June 9, 2025
6/9/2025
Simmons SSW SBIRT Health Professions Student Training - The goal of Simmons SBIRT Health Professions Student Training Program is to train health professions that care for adults and older adults in SBIRT. The aim is to optimize the adoption and use of SBIRT throughout the health care delivery system, extending health professions' capacity to undertake it effectively and advancing its sustainable institutionalization within diverse practice settings and professional training curriculum. The goal for each year of the grant period is to train 255 health professionals: Master of Social Work (MSW) students, Direct Entry Nursing students, MSW field instructors, health professionals across 2 multi-disciplinary health care teams, and teaching faculty. Our goal is to train approximately 745 individuals. Training includes didactic courses and emphasizes "hands-on" skills building through role play, supervised clinical practice and inter-professional training. We will also implement a quality improvement (QI) system that uses data from training and technical assistance, recruitment, and performance of faculty and students collected through a Plan, Study, Do, Act (PDSA) QI approach to resolve challenges to implementation of SBIRT Student Training activities.
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