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Substance Use and Pain Curriculum Innovation: Establishing a Student-Faculty Partnership for Curricular Change.
Authors
Mather RV, Jack HE, Warren KE, Comrie C, Li S, Liu M, Lynn-Green E, Moore S, Oles W, Saberi SA, Jarvie EJ, Koka A, McGuire P, Barreveld AM, Connery HS, Griswold TAbstract
The opioid overdose crisis had progressed broadly in the United States, with an 21% increase from 2016 to 2017, and specifically in Massachusetts, with a peak rate of 1,374 deaths in 2016. In 2016, students and faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS) established the Substance Use and Pain Curriculum Committee (SUPCC) to expand substance use and pain education. However, faculty capacity, financial resources, and administrative support were insufficient to implement changes across all phases of the medical school curriculum.