A Call for Training Graduate Medical Students on Harm Reduction for People who Inject Drugs
| Autor: | Raagini Jawa, Lindsay Demers, Nivetha Saravanan, Shana A B Burrowes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Medical education
Harm reduction Students Medical Naloxone business.industry education 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Survey research Training (civil) Local community Drug Users 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine Harm Reduction Pharmaceutical Preparations SAFER Humans 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business Psychology Pilot training Risk management |
| Zdroj: | Substance Abuse. 42:266-268 |
| ISSN: | 1547-0164 0889-7077 |
| Popis: | There is a lack of standardized education on topic of harm reduction for graduate medical students. In order to fill this curricular gap, we delivered a two-hour pilot training introducing local community harm reduction organizations and harm reduction ideology and strategies for people who inject drugs to graduate medical students at Boston University. We used pre-post survey design to evaluate attendee demographic characteristics and training efficacy. We matched 29 attendees responses, 69% were first and second year medical students, and found that our training positively reinforced comfort and knowledge surrounding harm reduction ideology, safer injection techniques, and naloxone administration. Delivering trainings covering harm reduction early in graduate medical schools may be beneficial in giving students initial exposure to practical risk mitigation tools they can utilize later in their clinical careers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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