All Patients Safe: Suicide Prevention for Medical Professionals, an online training that fulfills the new state law requiring health professionals to complete a one-time training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management, had a tremendously successful launch in mid-November. Nearly 750 providers signed up in the first month and 175 people have completed the training thus far. AIMS Center staff, who are running the logistics of the training, have experienced few complications in registration or with the training itself. The initiative built a significant amount of capacity within the department for creating high-quality, online training that can be commercialized and offered to the community.

The course was developed by UW Medicine and Forefront Suicide Prevention in partnership with Seattle Children’s, CoMotion and the VA. The training is free for medical providers in the UW Physicians (UWP) practice plan and Children’s University Medical Group (CUMG) practice plan, as well as residents and fellows (trainees). It is available for community members for a modest fee.

Department faculty members who helped develop the training include Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD; Ian Bennett, MD, PhD; John Kern, MD; Molly Adrian, PhD; and Mark Reger, PhD, who worked alongside Jennifer Stuber, PhD, and Jennifer Barron, MA, BSW, from Forefront. A number of staff were crucial to the development of the training as well including Alan Gojdics, MEd, Betsy Payn, MA, PMP, Melissa Farnum, MA, Diana Roll, Lindsay Baldwin, Mary Ann Barnard, Hannah Sessions, and Cara Towle, RN, MSN, MA.