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Opioid-Related Education Provided by Continuing Education Divisions at US Pharmacy Schools
Conclusion. The opioid epidemic creates an opportunity for pharmacists to increase their role in public health, but education and training are necessary. The study findings indicate that many pharmacists participate in opioid-related CPE provided by ACPE-accredited CEDs of pharmacy schools. This number is likely to increase as a growing number of states are beginning to require opioid-related CPE for pharmacist license renewal.PMID:33149331 | PMC:PMC7596601 | DOI:10.5688/ajpe8001
Source: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education - November 5, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Mandy L Renfro Leticia R Moczygemba Jennifer Baumgartner Glen Baumgart Lucas G Hill Source Type: research

Opioid-Related Education Provided by Continuing Education Divisions at US Pharmacy Schools.
Conclusion. The opioid epidemic creates an opportunity for pharmacists to increase their role in public health, but education and training are necessary. The study findings indicate that many pharmacists participate in opioid-related CPE provided by ACPE-accredited CEDs of pharmacy schools. This number is likely to increase as a growing number of states are beginning to require opioid-related CPE for pharmacist license renewal. PMID: 33149331 [PubMed - in process]
Source: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education - October 1, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Renfro ML, Moczygemba LR, Baumgartner J, Baumgart G, Hill LG Tags: Am J Pharm Educ Source Type: research

A retrospective quantitative implementation evaluation of Safer Opioid Prescribing, a Canadian continuing education program
Continuing health professions education (CHPE) is an important policy intervention for the opioid epidemic. Besides effectiveness or impact, health policy implementation should be studied to understand how an ...
Source: BMC Medical Education - February 12, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Abhimanyu Sud, Kathleen Doukas, Katherine Hodgson, Justin Hsu, Amber Miatello, Rahim Moineddin and Morag Paton Tags: Research article Source Type: research

Cultivating Agents of Change in Medical Students: Addressing the Overdose Epidemic in the United States Through Enhancing Knowledge of Multimodal Pain Medicine and Increasing Accessibility via Open-Access, Web-Based Medical Education and Technology
JMIR Med Educ. 2023 Jul 25;9:e46784. doi: 10.2196/46784.ABSTRACTMedical students of today will soon be physician leaders and teachers of tomorrow about important relevant topics including the overdose epidemic and its devastating impact on our society. In the United States, the overdose crisis, including drug opioid-related overdoses, the increasing prevalence of opioid use disorder along with the increasing number of patients with chronic pain are intensifying and call attention for nationwide action. A strong medical educational foundation of the understanding of the relationship between pain and substance use disorder, ...
Source: Pain Physician - July 25, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Julia H Miao Source Type: research

An Evaluation on Medical Students' Satisfaction with Clinical Education and its Effective Factors.
CONCLUSION: Based on the present study, we conclude that clinical education should be reevaluated in our university with the specific attention to the class size, variety of diseases and course planning considered for each session in clinical education. PMID: 28253123 [PubMed]
Source: Medical Education Online - March 4, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Med Educ Online Source Type: research

Reflect and Reset: Black Academic Voices Call the Graduate Medical Education Community to Action
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the great achievements that the biomedical community can accomplish, but raised the question: Can the same medical community that developed a complex vaccine in less than a year during a pandemic help to defeat social injustice and ameliorate the epidemic of health inequity? In this article, the authors, a group of Black academics, call on the graduate medical education (GME) community to reset its trajectory toward solutions for achieving diversity, improving inclusion, and combating racism using education as the new vector. Sponsoring institutions, which include universities, academic me...
Source: Academic Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Scholarly Perspective Source Type: research

Developing Core Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Prescription Drug Misuse: A Medical Education Collaboration in Massachusetts
Drug overdose has become the leading cause of injury death in the United States. More than half of those deaths involve prescription drugs, specifically opioids. A key component of addressing this national epidemic is improving prescriber practices. A review of the curricula at the four medical schools in Massachusetts revealed that, although they taught components of addiction medicine, no uniform standard existed to ensure that all students were taught prevention and management strategies for prescription drug misuse. To fill this gap, the governor and the secretary of health and human services invited the deans of the ...
Source: Academic Medicine - September 29, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Articles Source Type: research