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Many Medical Residents Give Poor Marks to Addiction Training: Survey

June 4, 2013

“More than half of internal medicine residents at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston say they were not adequately trained in addiction and other substance use disorders, according to a new survey.

The survey, conducted last year, found residents rated their training in these areas as fair or poor, Health Canal reports. Many said they were not prepared to diagnose or treat addiction or substance use disorders.

“Our residents estimated that one in four hospital inpatients has a substance use disorder, which matches what other studies have found and represents a disease prevalence similar to that of diabetes,” lead author Sarah Wakeman, MD said in a news release. “Finding that the majority of residents feel unprepared to treat addiction and rate the quality of their education so low represents a tremendous disparity between the burden of disease and the success of our current model of training.”

http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/addiction/many-medical-residents-give-poor-marks-to-addiction-training-survey?utm_source=Join%20Together%20Daily&utm_campaign=db0c98e29b-JT_Daily_News_Many_Medical_Residents&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_97f4d27738-db0c98e29b-221281549

Source: DrugFree.org – May 23, 2013

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