A Call for Better Opioid Prescribing Training and Education

A Call for Better Opioid Prescribing Training and Education

Pain is the most common complaint in the emergency department (ED), and emergency physicians face unique challenges in making opioid-related treatment decisions. Medical students and residents experience significant variation in the quality of education they receive both about opioid prescribing as well as substance-use detection and intervention in the ED. To achieve a better standard of educa...

Better and Faster Patient Training

اقامت هرچه کوتاهتر بیمار در بیمارستان، مستلزم آموزش مؤثر او و خانواده وی است

Rubin education is a continuum A prescription for better prescribing : Medical

Opioid Prescribing Practices and Training Needs of Québec Family Physicians for Chronic Noncancer Pain

AIM To examine medical practices and training needs of Québec family physicians with respect to pain management and opioid prescription for chronic noncancer pain (CNCP). METHODOLOGY An online survey was carried out in 2016. RESULTS Of 636 respondents (43.0% men; 54.3% ≥ 50 years old), 15.2% and 70.9% felt very or somewhat confident that they could properly prescribe opioids for CNCP. Conce...

A call for standardized training.

This special issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness is being published as a result of the tragic events that occurred on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) campus in April 2007. Such events vividly underscore the need for specialized training to ensure the most appropriate and effective response on the part of the medical and public health...