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Medical Student Education on Buprenorphine

Temporarily Off-line

This series of courses was developed to educate medical students about substance abuse, with particular focus on opioid use disorders and treatment with buprenorphine.

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Pre-Clinical

  • Prevalence, Trends and Impact on Health: Opioid Addiction
    Understanding the scope of the problem of opioid misuse is essential before initiating an office-based buprenorphine treatment program.

Clinical

  • The Detection and Diagnosis of Opioid Dependence
    This module will address the detection and diagnosis of opioid abuse and dependence in the general patient population via effective patient-physician interaction and screening techniques.
  • Opioid Use Disorders and Common Comorbidities
    Psychiatric and physical comorbidities frequently co-occur with opioid use disorder, but often go unrecognized and untreated.
  • The Role of the Practicing Physician in Substance Abuse Treatment and Working with Multidisciplinary Teams
    Understanding the scope of the problem of opioid misuse is essential before initiating an office-based buprenorphine treatment program.
  • Pharmacology of Opioids and Neurobiology of Opioid Addiction
    This module will help the learner understand the pharmacology of opioid receptors and the opioids that interact with them.

Advanced Concepts

  • Chad Wright - A Remote Live Standardized Patient (OSCE)
    This Standardized Patient encounter will train health professional learners when and if it is appropriate to screen for drug abuse, specifically opioids, and to evaluate the interpersonal interviewing techniques of learners.

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