Expanding buprenorphine training to providers - essex county in newark, NJ ranked 1ST in the state in lab submissions of suspected heroin and 2ND in the state for fentanyl submissions and naloxone…

Expanding buprenorphine training to providers - essex county in newark, NJ ranked 1ST in the state in lab submissions of suspected heroin and 2ND in the state for fentanyl submissions and naloxone administrations. At our institution, university hospital (UH) in newark, NJ, at least half of the addiction medicine consultations for medication assisted treatment (mat) occur in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who have surgical complications as a result of trauma and/or intravenous drug abuse. Moreover at least one third of all mat consultations occur in the medical intensive care unit or stepdown yet there are no dedicated X waiver workshops or mat training for most of these medical and surgical residents, nurse practioners (NPS) and physician assistants (PAS) who are primarily managing these patients. Our goal is to train NP and PA students, and residents from the various medical and surgical backgrounds on safe prescribing of mat, harm reduction and obtaining the data waiver by creating tailored educational workshops, clinical rotations, and simulations videos that are designed to be relevant to the learner's specialty and training background. We will modify an existing published X waiver curriculum and assessment tool that was designed for the emergency medicine audience to deliver IT to the residencies at UH who lack dedicated training on mat (e.g. internal medicine (IM), IM-pediatrics, general surgery, anesthesiology, etc.) and create additional modifications for the NP and PA students. We will also create and tailor an addiction medicine rotation for the various medical and surgical residencies, NP and PA training programs to enhance bedside training and also include a data waiver component. Finally, we will also create tailored educational clinical scenario videos and assessment tools for commonly encountered clinical situations involving patients with OUD to enhance communication skills and provide case-based simulation style learning that is relevant to the learner's clinical practice. To our knowledge there are no published X waiver workshops or clinical simulation videos that are tailored to the resident's specific medical or surgical discipline that also include modifications for students from PA and NP training programs.