What:

CIAO provides virtual academic detailing training on opioid stewardship to health localities, health plans, and other organizations throughout California and the United States. Trainings include both content review and skill development to prepare participants for conducting academic detailing visits.

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Training content may include:

• Academic detailing history, theory, and skills

• Virtual detailing

• Motivational interviewing

• Opioid use disorder management

• Stimulant use disorder management

• Buprenorphine prescribing

• Urine drug screening 

• Chronic non-cancer pain management 

• Controlled substance monitoring programs

• Naloxone prescribing

• Opioid stewardship policies and practices

 

Trainings typically include some combination of didactic presentations, interactive exercises, group discussion and reflection, and mock detailing sessions. CIAO’s academic detailing training is modeled after evidence-based practices from the National Resource Center for Academic Detailing.

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How:

CIAO currently hosts all trainings over Zoom. The contents, format, and length of the training are guided by partner needs, detailer background and experience, and CIAO's Opioids and Chronic Pain: A guide for primary care providers guidebook (a copy of which will be given to all trainees to use during the training and subsequent detailing sessions with providers). An example training schedule may include 5 two-hour weekly or biweekly online sessions on the following content areas:

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Who:

CIAO’s trainers include clinicians and public health professionals who have extensive backgrounds in clinical management of substance use disorders and academic detailing.

 

Trainees should include those providing academic detailing to prescribers/dispensers. Because the training is dedicated to teaching individuals to become academic detailers and includes one-on-one feedback, it is imperative participation is limited to nine or fewer individuals who will be conducting academic detailing visits. However, others, such as program staff and site directors, are welcome to observe the training.