Opioid Use Disorder Curriculum: Preclerkship Pharmacology Case-Based Learning Session.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 93,000 Americans lost their lives to a preventable overdose. Medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) have been shown to decrease mortality in OUD but are underutilized. Through this case-based learning exercise, first-year medical students applied physiologic and pharmacologic principles to the diagnosis and treatment of OUD.

Methods

Faculty facilitated a case discussion over a 1-hour large-group case-based learning (CBL) session. Facilitators utilized PowerPoint slides to illustrate graphs and figures while discussing the case. To evaluate students on the CBL learning objectives, three pharmacology exam questions were administered; students also evaluated the CBL's effectiveness in meeting educational objec

SUBMITTER: Taldone S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9085981 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature