Here are five highlights:
1. The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School in Boston and Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston will all implement courses on preventing opioid abuse.
2. The Massachusetts Medical Society, Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel and the four medical schools created a curriculum addressing painkiller abuse.
3. Topics include how to assess patients’ likelihood of addiction and how to treat patients with risk of abuse, among other lessons.
4. The medical students are expected to learn how to develop alternative treatment plans for pain. Further, they should understand how to treat addiction.
5. The University of Massachusetts Medical School plans to engage medical students with simulations of patients who request pain killers; the simulations are designed to test a student’s ability to assess whether a patient should receive a prescription or an alternative treatment.
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