Interprofessional opioid and addiction teaching day for third year medical and pharmacy students
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2023-03
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Engle, Amanda
Cleary, Jacqueline H.
Cabral, C. Lynn
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The national opioid crisis has prompted concerns on how best to prepare health professions students with skills needed to care for these complex problems. A multi-modal program was designed to deliver opioid management, pain, and addiction content along with an authentic interprofessional education experience to all third-year pharmacy and medical students. The first objective called for students to demonstrate interprofessional education competencies in communication, teamwork, values, and roles/responsibilities, while the second objective called for students to demonstrate application of acquired knowledge in the clinical therapeutics of pain and addiction medicine. The program, Opioid and Addiction Teaching Day (OATD), included pre-recorded lectures provided asynchronously, followed by synchronous interprofessional small groups facilitated by interprofessional faculty hosted on Microsoft Teams (MS Teams). This varied format supported asynchronous independent content learning for adult learners, while the synchronous, remote interprofessional small group workshop offered on three separate occasions allowed for 327 students from two different health professions schools to collaborate. The ability to offer OATD remotely addressed a need for social distancing, and created more scheduling flexibility, which resulted in an increase in student and faculty participation when compared to similar programs held in person. Students identified gains in all IPE abilities, assessed using the validated Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Scale (ICCAS), with the most gains noted in effective communication and use of an interprofessional team approach with the patient to assess the health situation and to provide whole person care. There was a thirty-four percent increase in average score on the quiz pharmacy students took before and after completing the didactic pre-work component of OATD. Resources developed to support OATD included content creation for lectures, quizzes, and telescopic cases, “How To” guides for use of Microsoft Teams (MS Teams), and interprofessional education faculty development. All resources developed for OATD are included in the appendix of this publication.
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Engle, A., Cleary, J., & Cabral, C. L. (2023). Interprofessional opioid and addiction teaching day for third year medical and pharmacy students. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2022.100585
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