Teaching Safe Opioid Prescribing During the Opioid Epidemic: Results of the 2018 Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Educating medical trainees across the continuum is essential to a multifaceted strategy for addressing the opioid epidemic.

Objective

To assess the current state of internal medicine clerkship content on safe opioid prescribing and opioid use disorder, and barriers to curriculum implementation.

Design

National Annual (2018) Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) cross-sectional survey.

Participants

One hundred thirty-four clerkship directors at all Liaison Committee of Medical Education accredited US medical schools with CDIM membership as of October 1, 2018.

Main measures

The survey section on safe opioid prescribing and opioid use disorder education in the internal medicine clerkship addressed assessment of current curricula, percei

SUBMITTER: Ari M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6854155 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature