ArticleFamily medicine2023
Improving First-Year Family Medicine Residents' Confidence in Safe Opioid Prescribing Through a Multiactivity Educational Program.
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objectiveIt is documented that some of the opioids prescribed to manage chronic pain are diverted and used for nonmedical purposes. We investigated whether a skill-based, chronic pain management (CPM) educational program could improve first-year family medicine residents' comfort, knowledge, and concerns in assessing and managing patients who use opioids for chronic noncancer pain.
methodsA total of 72 first-year residents (four cohorts of 18) participated in a 3-month CPM training intervention that consisted of didactic lectures, objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) activities, and post-OSCE debriefing with faculty, one being a behavioral health specialist, between 2017 and 2020. We used a single-sample, pre/post design. At three points in time (baseline, 3-months, and 6-months postintervention), participants completed a set of measures assessing comfort, knowledge, and concern. We used repeated measures analyses to assess changes in outcome measures.
resultsParticipants reported improvements compared with baseline at both follow-up time points. At 6 months postintervention, the participants had significantly better scores on measures of comfort (F[1, 71]=65.22; P<.001), knowledge (F[1, 71]=22.38, P<.001), and concern (F[1, 71]=37.89, P<.001) in prescribing opioids for chronic noncancer pain.
conclusionA multiactivity CPM educational program for first-year residents was associated with improvement in perceived sense of comfort, knowledge, and concerns in assessing and managing patients who use opioids for chronic noncancer pain. CPM training interventions may be an effective tool to educate first-year residents to implement best practices for pain management with the goal of reducing the chances of inappropriately prescribing controlled substances or denying analgesia.
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