Table 1 UNM PCSS-TI Leadership and Roles

Vice Chair of Behavioral Sciences, DPBS. Associate Professor and Vice Chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS) and Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Principal Investigator/Project Director. Ensured strong collaborations with educational faculty members across the School of Medicine (SOM). Clinical expertise working with persons with substance use disorders ensures first-hand knowledge of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD).

Chief of Addictions, DPBS. This faculty member is board-certified in addictions and psychiatry and is acting Chief of Addictions at the DPBS.

The Clinical Trainer for the University PCSS project is the Director at UNM Addiction and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP). ASAP is a substance use treatment clinic through University of New Mexico Hospital and is staffed by faculty members from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Provided MOUD treatment for persons with substance use disorders at the University of New Mexico (UNM) ASAP. He is a certified Drug Addiction Treatment Act (DATA) Waiver trainer with years of training experience. This position ensured the full DATA waiver training was provided at flexible times, helping ensure it could be easily embedded into the existing curriculum structure. This faculty member also was able to provide the shadowing component through his work at the ASAP clinic, one of Albuquerque’s largest Opioid Treatment Programs.

Director, UNM Pain Center, UNM Health Sciences Center (HSC). This faculty member is a neurologist and specializes in treatment of chronic pain. She has a long history of working with persons with OUD and expanding access to naloxone statewide.

Given the position of this faculty member at the Pain Center ensured that students had opportunities to shadow clinicians providing OUD treatment in the context of chronic pain treatment.

Inter-Professional Education Coordinator, UNM HSC. This faculty member is a board-certified internal medicine specialist responsible for a major component of the medical school curricula and for promoting collaboration between and within different health professions.

This faculty member’s position in the medical school ensured the training initiative was embedded into the pre-clinical medical school curriculum. Additionally, she provided the opportunity to shadow MOUD treatment in her office-based medical practice.

Director, Medical Student Education, HSC. This faculty member is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine and a board-certified Psychiatrist and the Psychiatric Clerkship Director.

This position played an integral role in ensuring the DATA Waiver training was embedded and sustained in the school of medicine. Furthermore, she ensured that the clinical experience was embedded in the Psychiatry clerkship, thereby allowing medical students to participate in the shadowing experience.

Clinical and Outreach Coordinator with the UNM Physician Assistant program. This faculty member is the lead for the PA Program at the HSC and provides direct OUD treatment at the HSC Family and Community Medicine Clinic.

This position ensured that all PA learners received the DATA waiver training and were placed in a shadowing experience alongside faculty members in their same academic discipline during clinical rotations. Furthermore, this faculty member obtained the DATA waiver training certification to provide students with trainers from both MD and PA backgrounds.

Assistant Professor and Concentration Coordinator for the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner program, HSC, College of Nursing. This faculty member is the Coordinator of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Program at the College of Nursing. She oversees student clinical placements.

Given this faculty member’s position as faculty, she acted as lead for coordinating the DATA waiver training and embedding the PCSS program into the curriculum for psychiatric nurse practitioners.