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prescription opioids including prescribed surgery greatly contributed us opioid epidemic educating opioid prescribers crucial component ensuring safe use opioids among surgical patients annual opioid prescribing education curriculum implemented among new surgical prescribers institution 2017 2022 curriculum includes single 75min session comprised several components pain medications dosing indications contraindications patients high risk uncontrolled pain andor opioid misuse abuse patient monitoring care plans state federal regulations participants asked complete opioid knowledge assessment didactic session presession postsession assessments completed 197 896 prescribers across five studied years median presession score 545 increased 636 completion curriculum representing median relative knowledge increase 182 median relative improvement greatest preinterns interns 182 groups smaller improvements observed postgraduate year 25 residents 91 advanced practice providers 91 scale 1 10 5 comfortable median interquartile range selfreported comfort prescribing opioids increased 3 25 education 5 46 education p 0001 year curriculum substantially improved provider knowledge comfort opioid prescribing despite increased national awareness opioid epidemic increasing institutional initiatives improve opioid prescribing practices sustained knowledge comfort gap among new surgical prescribers observed effects opioid education curriculum highlight value simple efficient educational initiative