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Publication Date

3-30-2023

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Pharmacy student education related to opioids: A scoping review protocol

Authors: Marie Barnard, Ph.D. and Dorothy Reid, M.A.T.

Abstract: Opioid misuse is a major public health concern, with increasing rates of addiction, overdose, and death. As frontline healthcare providers, pharmacists play a critical role in ensuring the safe use of prescription opioids. While pharmacists receive training on the pharmacology and therapeutics of opioid analgesics, they may lack the broader knowledge and skills needed to effectively prevent opioid misuse. To address this issue, the ACPE 2020 Special Committee on Substance Use and Pharmacy Education made curricular recommendations to better prepare students for managing opioids in practice. While some training programs have been reported, there is a need to better understand the current landscape and identify best practices for training future pharmacists. A scoping review will be conducted to map what is known about educational and training initiatives for student pharmacists. Understanding the types of initiatives, how they are being evaluated, and what is known about their effectiveness is being examined. Findings will be mapped to the four educational content areas recommended by the ACPE special committee. The results can be used to identified and encourage dissemination of evidence-based teaching efforts to better prepare student pharmacists to practice, as well as identify gaps in coverage of content areas that can guide future efforts at opioid-related curriculum development.

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