Surgical Residency Programs Should Leverage Recent Advances in National Policy, Real-World Data, and Public Opinion to Improve Post-Surgery Opioid Prescribing

Affiliations

¹ is a General Surgery Resident and Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.
² is Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.
³ is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Instructor in Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.

Jayson S Marwaha et al. J Grad Med Educ. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb;14(1):25-29.

doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-21-00617.1.

¹ is a General Surgery Resident and Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.
² is Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.
³ is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Instructor in Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.

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