Evaluation and guide for embedding opioid use disorder education in health professions' curricula.

Background: Morbidity and mortality from Opioid Use Disorder is a health crisis in the United States. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a devastating increase of 38.4% in overdose deaths from the 12-month period leading up to June 2019 compared with the 12-month period leading up to May 2020, primarily driven by synthetic opioids.

Training Psychiatrists in New Mexico: Reflections from Psychiatry Residents Who Participated in a Rural Track Versus a Traditional Program Alone over the Past Decade.

Objective: With over 60% of rural Americans living in mental health professional shortage areas, there is a need for providing psychiatry residents training experiences in rural communities with the goal of increasing the likelihood that they will end up practicing in those same communities following graduation. The purpose of this study was to survey previous and current psychiatry residents, with the goal of describing the impact of the program on rural track residents compared to those in the traditional residency track.

Methods: Psychiatry residents 2010-2020 completed an online survey.