PCSS - Cohort Three

Arizona State University Waiver Expansion (AWE) curriculum includes the first part of MOUD training through the AWE program during students’ second year in the Doctorate in Nurse Practitioner (DNP) program. The curriculum is mandatory for all second-year students. The rest of the hours can be completed through, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) which is encouraged for all and mandatory for Family and Mental Health specialties. The students have the opportunity to shadow Physicians and NPs who prescribe MOUD as part of their routine practice, then they can spend a full clinical rotation with practitioners to become more familiar with how to assess patients for substance abuse disorders and to implement treatment plans using MOUD. There is a requirement to complete an additional 40-hours of supervised clinical experiences in the third year of the DNP. Third year students who complete the basic MOUD training may satisfy 24 of those required 40 hours of additional supervised clinical experience using a MOUD treatment site.

Contact Information: 602-496-1607

University of California, San Francisco has been working with UCSF curriculum leadership to identify spaces to implement ASAM-approved curriculum. The project completed a mapping of the curriculum to identify every course or clerkship in which patients currently receive any teaching about individual and structural factors associated with substance use, complications of substance use, diagnosis of substance use disorder, and treatment of substance use disorders and complications from substance use. The project collaborated to produce a 2-hour course on the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and taught it for the first time to a group of GME learners. Distributed over 200 doses of naloxone to medical students for reversal of opioid overdose in the community.

Contact Information: 415-353-7192

Saginaw Valley State University features an innovative scaffolding approach helping Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner students become more knowledgeable, confident, competent, and ready to provide MOUD to patients across Michigan. Through a didactic, virtual simulation and concluding with a live simulation collaborating with persons in long-term recovery students build their skills and confidence to practice. The integration of persons in long-term recovery, those with lived experience provides an environment rich with authenticity for the students’ practice. Students have shown significant improvement across domains of knowledge, attitudes toward providing MOUD, confidence, competence, and readiness to provide MOUD services. The students are placed in a treatment setting where they have an opportunity to shadow physicians, PAs, and NPs who are providing treatment, including MOUD for OUD.

Contact Information: 898-964-4000

Northeast Ohio Medical University has identified system gaps that may result in errors and recommend solutions to reduce risk and to provide optimal patient care. The project created modules that demonstrate familiarity with routine clinical and procedural skills. At the end of the modules, students are able to demonstrate preparedness for the patient care role in the clerkship settings where they will provide care for patients under supervision activities called Introduction to SUD in the Pain Management curriculum, Evaluation of Activity: Pre-Survey on Attitudes and Confidence BEFORE the session. Students demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families and health professionals.

Contact Information: 800-686-2511

The University of Pennsylvania has implemented a student shadowing opportunity in Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)-integrated primary care clinics for all medical students in year 2 to provide a hands-on learning environment to supplement classroom learning. Additional community-based overdose prevention shadowing opportunities are available for learners and clinicians if interested. The MOUD training includes hybrid (half in-person, half virtual), online asynchronous; training: 8 hours, divided into two, 4-hour sessions (or 24 hours for Nurse Practitioners (NP).

Contact Information: Perelman School of Medicine, 215-662-4000;
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 215-898-8281