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ArticleBJPsych international2020

Closing the gap between training needs and training provision in addiction medicine.

Sidharth Arya, Mirjana Delic, Blanca Iciar Indave Ruiz, Jan Klimas, Duccio Papanti, Anton Stepanov, Victoria Cock, Dzmitry Krupchanka

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Article in BJPsych international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sidharth AryaMD, Assistant Professor, State Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, Institute of Mental Health, Pt BDS University of Health Sciences, India.
Mirjana DelicPhD, Psychiatrist, Center for Treatment of Drug Addiction, University Psychiatric Hospital Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Blanca Iciar Indave RuizPhD, Research Assistant, National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Spain.
Jan KlimasPhD, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Duccio PapantiMD, Psychiatrist, Department of Mental Health, Integrated University Healthcare Company of Udine (ASUIUD), Italy.
Anton StepanovMD, Head of Rehabilitation Department, Gomel Regional Narcological Dispensary, Belarus.
Victoria CockFAChAM (RACP), Consultant Addiction Medicine Specialist, Drug and Alcohol Services of South Australia, South Australia.
Dzmitry KrupchankaPhD, Medical Officer, Management of Substance Abuse Unit, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Email: dmitry.krupchenko@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0126-5281

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 have been taken worldwide to improve training, but further efforts are required to build curricula that are internationally applicable. We believe that the training needs of professionals in the area have not yet been explored in sufficient detail. 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.

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alcohol disordersdrugs of dependence disordersEducation and training

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PMID32558814
PMCPMC7283115

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