Managing Pain at the Intersection of Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, and Substance Use Disorder

Registration Fee

Members: $100.00
Non-members: $125.00

WHEN

Thursday, December 5 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. ET

This date is full.
Tuesday, January 14 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. ET

This date is full.

Where

Zoom

Offers CE

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is partnering with RE-UP—a unique education program focused on the intersection of serious illness, chronic pain, and opioid complexity, including substance use disorder—to offer this workshop.

Chronic pain management for patients living with a serious illness is complicated. What are the lowest-risk, highest-benefit strategies to improve patient quality of life? How can clinicians understand and comply with opioid regulations? What does the science tell us about safety and prescribing best practices for chronic pain with concurrent serious illness? What tools do clinicians have to confidently manage pain for patients with opioid use disorder or another substance use disorder?

This interactive two-hour workshop will answer these questions, and more, through a variety of patient case examples. Faculty will illustrate decision-making criteria for safe chronic pain management for patients with serious illness, and introduce buprenorphine as a gold standard treatment for patients with opioid use disorder—a safer alternative for many patients with serious illness and chronic pain. After learning how to prescribe buprenorphine, attendees will receive practical, evidence-based tools and references to support safe and effective prescribing.

Clinicians from all care settings, working with all patient populations, are encouraged to attend. CAPC membership is NOT required, but members receive discounted registration.

Learning Outcomes:

Identify five criteria of substance use disorder, including opioid use disorder
Explain the concept of long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain
Identify four reasons to use buprenorphine for chronic pain management or treating opioid use disorder in patients with serious illness
Review seven steps to initiating buprenorphine
Describe safe buprenorphine prescribing, including dosing and rotation

This learning activity is designed to meet the Federal MATE Act requirement for new or renewing DEA licensees for 2 hours of training on opioid or other substance use disorders and the appropriate treatment of pain.

What You’ll Earn

To earn Continuing Education credits for this live event, you must join Zoom using the same email address as your CAPC user account (you can verify the address on your capc.org dashboard). We cannot provide Continuing Education credits if you join by phone for the live event. You must also attend at least 90% of the event, complete the post-test and evaluation, and sign the attestation.

Only logged-in users can earn the following free Continuing Education Credits:

Medicine: 2.00 CME
Nursing: 2.00 CNE, 2.00 Pharmacotherapy

Accreditations and Disclosures

Medical Society of the State of New York

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Requirements and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of MSSNY and Center to Advance Palliative Care. MSSNY is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Medical Society of the State of New York designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

As an ACCME-accredited provider, MSSNY is required to identify and mitigate relevant financial relationships of all individuals in control of CME content.

Financial relationships are relevant if the following three conditions are met for the prospective person who will control content of the education:

✓ A financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company.

✓ The financial relationship existed during the past 24 months.

✓ The content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship.

None of the individuals in control of content has relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Connecticut Nurses' Association

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by Connecticut Nurses’ Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Minutes: 120 minutes or 2.0 contact hours

Includes 2.0 Category 1 Designated Pharmacotherapeutic Credit Hours as required for maintenance of national certification for nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists. This activity incorporates current clinical application of pharmacology across the life span including: drug specific information, safe prescribing practices and information, safe medication administration, prescribing methodologies, new regulations and/or similar content.

How to Achieve Contact Hours: To successfully earn credit, participants must attend for 90% of the live activity, receive a minimum score of 80% on the post-test, and complete the course evaluation. A printable certificate of completion or a continuing award document specific to the discipline will be awarded.

Faculty Disclosures and Financial Relationships: It is the policy of CAPC to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all CE, CNE and CME educational activities per the highest standards of ANCC and ACGME guidelines. For all courses, Faculty/Presenters/Authors/Content Reviewers/Planning Committee Members complete forms to disclose their relevant financial relationships. No relevant financial relationships were identified for any individuals with the ability to control content of the activity.