SUD 101 Course 4: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder-Facilitation Guide

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This document is a facilitation toolkit for leading an interprofessional team discussion after completing the PCSS-MOUD SUD 101 Course 4 on Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD). It is intended to help learners translate course knowledge into practice change by engaging colleagues, leaders, or students in structured, non–lecture-style conversations. The guide offers considerations for how to run the session depending on whether others have taken the course, emphasizing sharing a few key takeaways, using questions to prompt reflection, encouraging colleagues to complete the free course, and focusing on workflow implementation rather than content recap. For student audiences, it recommends emphasizing team roles, patient barriers, and clinician communication challenges, using structured reflection prompts and experiential methods such as small-group breakouts, role-play, and brief journaling.<br /><br />The discussion purpose is to explore how teams understand and implement MOUD as evidence-based OUD treatment. Goals include reviewing FDA-approved MOUD options, addressing barriers to access, reducing stigma and misconceptions, clarifying team member roles, and identifying workflow improvements to increase access to medication treatment. A suggested agenda includes: framing the reason for meeting; reflecting on key takeaways and their relevance to current challenges; discussing what should change and how; and making specific commitments to action, with optional follow-up case-based practice.<br /><br />Two worksheets provide sample facilitator questions and three case discussions (young adult with severe OUD and fentanyl overdose history; OUD with alcohol use and prior naltrexone success; high-risk injection drug use with comorbidities and unstable housing). The guide also suggests evaluation methods: pre/post team surveys on understanding and confidence, open-ended feedback, and outcome metrics such as the percent of OUD patients offered or receiving MOUD and retention rates. Links to PCSS-MOUD resources, mentoring, and a resource library are included.

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A tool to facilitate discussion and implementation within clinical teams

Keywords

facilitation toolkit

interprofessional team discussion

PCSS-MOUD SUD 101 Course 4

medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD)

opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment

workflow implementation

stigma reduction

team roles and communication

case-based discussion scenarios

pre/post evaluation metrics