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Retention of student pharmacists’ knowledge and skills regarding overdose management with naloxone

Anita N. Jacobson PharmD; Jeffrey P. Bratberg PharmD; Miranda Monk; & John Ferrentino

Substance Abuse Vol. 39, Iss. 2, 2018

“Substance use disorder education, including information on naloxone, is overall lacking in schools and colleges of pharmacy. As the opioid crisis drives greater inclusion of this content into pharmacy curricula, we compared different methods to deliver naloxone content: didactic alone or didactic plus an objective-structured clinical examination with a standardized patient. Although our findings did not show many statistically significant differences between these groups of student pharmacists, we believe this paper will motivate educators from all health professions to add naloxone instruction to existing SUD curricula and to have latitude incorporating the training as feasible given the knowledge retention and increased confidence among both groups of students.”