Opioid Use Disorder Curriculum: Medicine Clerkship Standardized Patient Case, Small-Group Activity, and Patient Panel

• DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11248
• Publication Date: 2022-05-24T04:00:20Z
• Authors: Hansel E. Tookes; Jasmine Tomita-Ba...; Sabrina Taldone; Morgan Shane; Matthew R. Imm; Henri Ford; Joan St. Onge; David W. Forrest; Tyler S. Bartholomew; David P. Serota
• Keywords: Small group learning

The overdose crisis remains a critical public health problem, creating an urgent need to train physicians in the treatment and management of opioid use disorder (OUD). Our medicine clerkship module aimed close this gap by training assessing students' motivational interviewing skills, harm reduction knowledge, nonstigmatizing language patients with OUD.We evaluated impact small-group, case-based activity patient panel on clinical documentation skills students clerkship. Clinical was based observed structured examination standardized OUD using grading rubric that followed learning objectives. Students also submitted reflections curriculum.Qualitative responses (n = 40) from evaluating small-group exercise revealed overall student satisfaction exposure living OUD. Three themes emerged reflections: (1) humanity, (2) different paths recovery, (3) language. For quantitative test, 39) mean scores before after increased 10.1 11.3 out 13.5 possible points. There significant difference between pretest posttest (p < .001).The provided acceptable feasible opportunity for implementing multifaceted educational experience immediate their evaluation