Opioids have become a leading cause of death in many jurisdictions.  The additional health impacts of the opioid crisis are widespread impacting infants to the elderly.  Medical schools and medical educators are being called on to respond to this crisis.  During this presentation, the impact of the crisis will be described and current educational efforts to address the ongoing crisis will be described.  Integrated curricular approaches impacting the longitudinal curriculum will be described.

 In this webinar, the impact and etiology of opioid use disorder nationally will be briefly discussed.  The webinar will then shift to the strategy used by one medical school to integrate curriculum focused on opioid use disorder longitudinally and substantially into its curriculum will be explored.  Finally, strategies for enabling curriculum to count in lieu of DATA waiver training will be discussed and how these strategies can ideally increase the number of physicians prescribing medication assisted treatment (locally and nationally).  

This session will describe ways in which opioid abuse education has been hardwired into curricula at Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate and Knoxville, TN) using interprofessional education as a framework through the use of technology, community involvement and interinstitutional relationships.

Multiple sources have documented the level of medical student substance use, including marijuana and opioids. Challenges for medical schools in states where marijuana has been legalized will be discussed and approaches to dealing with potentially lethal medical student opioid use.