Evaluating attitudes among healthcare graduate students following interprofessional education on opioid use disorder

Provider-enacted stigma is a barrier for people with substance use disorder (SUD) who interface with the healthcare system, and it has been shown to lead to worse healthcare outcomes. This has given urgency to the need for stigma reduction interventions such as education- and contact-based approaches. The positive effect of interprofessional education (IPE) in reducing graduate health students’ stigmatizing attitudes on opioids has been examined before, and we contribute to the existing literature by examining the attitudes across the following four health disciplines—osteopathic medicine, physician assistant (PA) studies and public health, pharmacy, and nursing—following a single half-day IPE event focused on opioid use disorder (OUD).

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