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Community-engaged pedagogy in an emergency medicine clerkship: Teaching trauma-informed addiction care and harm reduction through a peer-assisted learning case.

Callan Elswick FockeleElsa LindgrenJordan FerreiraDena SalehipourJamie ShandroJoshua Jauregui
Published in: AEM education and training (2024)
This study supports the feasibility and importance of incorporating the voices of people with lived and living experience into medical school curricular development. This peer-assisted learning case focused on the treatment of OUD in the emergency department was seamlessly integrated into the existing curriculum and well received by medical students. By engaging local experts, it could easily be adapted and expanded to other sites.
Keyphrases
  • medical students
  • emergency medicine
  • emergency department
  • healthcare
  • palliative care
  • mental health
  • quality improvement
  • pain management
  • trauma patients
  • electronic health record