A self-directed learning module with pre/post-test focused on ethics of opioid use disorder.
Instructional Strategy: Online module, 30 minutes
Learning Objectives
- Integrate knowledge of the epidemiology of the opioid epidemic in Ohio with an understanding of the ethical and social duties of the physician and healthcare provider.
- Compare the “neurobiological/disease” model of addiction with that of the “behavioral model,” and the ethical implications of each.
- Identify, in the context of the opioid epidemic, the “four goods” of the patient that the healthcare provider has traditionally been ethically obligated to address.
- Describe the primary and secondary ethical duties of the physician or healthcare provider with respect to patient care in the context of opioid addiction.
- Elucidate the basic components and definition of authentic social justice and its application to the opioid addicted person and family.
Authors: Ashley Fernandes, PhD, MD, Director for all modules: Kristen Rundell, MD
School: Ohio State University
