The site hopes to engage and challenge medical students to improve their alcohol assessment and intervention skills, so that future physicians may be better prepared to assist patients with at unhealthy alcohol use and improve the health outcomes of those patients.

The personal, financial, and other costs of at-risk drinking and alcohol use disorders to society are well known, yet tomorrow’s medical students are still unprepared to time-efficiently assess and intervene regarding their patients’ alcohol use. Health professional students who are better prepared to approach the subject of alcohol use may improve patient care as physicians and positively impact patient health, through more effective screening, diagnosis, and treatment of substance abuse.

Clinical Encounters: Alcohol has developed a collection of didactic training modules and interactive patient case experiences to allow medical students to gain the training necessary to meet real-world challenges of patient care, including time-pressure, the need to make assessment and intervention decisions, and experience the effect those decisions have on their patients.

This training is targeted toward students in the health professions.

Clinical Tools will not share your personal information with any third parties. However, if taking one of our modules is part of your required coursework, your measurement data (e.g. pre/post tests) will be reported to your professor upon their request.

The website is being developed by Clinical Tools, Inc. This website was developed entirely by funding from grant #1R43AA020456-01A1 and #2R44AA020456-02 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

In the About Us section, there is a brief overview of the training, as well as a link to our corporate site.

Hours vary by module. Users will receive a Letter of Completion for up to 2.5 hours upon completing the activity.

You can find your certificate in your email. If you need a copy, please contact us.

Please contact us to request a copy. It helps if you can provide the username or email you used for training.

Clinical Tools includes multiple measures in our modules to assess changes in knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and intended behavior. We track this data for all users to assess the impact of our online curriculum.