• Alëna A Balasanova, Kellene Eagen, and David Marcovitz.
• Department of Psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA. alena.balasanova@unmc.edu.
• J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Jul 1; 38 (9): 219421972194-2197.

AbstractAddiction Consult Services (ACS) deliver evidence-based care for patients with substance use disorder (SUD) during the course of general hospital admissions. Stigma toward patients with SUD is a known phenomenon and is part of the "hidden curriculum" that permeates medical training and healthcare settings. ACS have the potential to rewrite the hidden curriculum around SUD and to teach medical students and other trainees how to compassionately care for this patient population. Here, the authors explore the role of stigma within the hidden curriculum of medical training and outline how ACS can successfully contribute to combatting this stigma. The authors highlight two institutions' approaches to educational initiatives that incorporate health professional trainees into ACS. The authors end by providing a vision of how expansion of ACS can promote interdisciplinary learning for healthcare providers amidst the changing landscape of SUD treatment in the USA.© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Society of General Internal Medicine.

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