Pain and Addiction Courses
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Overall Curriculum Objectives
Upon completion of the training, the learner will be able to:
- Screen pain patients for addiction and assess them for addiction risk
- Triage patients to the appropriate level of care to stratify risk.
- Initiate pain treatment with opioids while simultaneously avoiding addiction complications for the patient.
- Monitor patients during ongoing pain treatment for substance use problems
- Coordinate care for pain patients with specialists in pain and addiction
- Utilize appropriate treatment structure and/or referral if a pain patient develops substance use problems.
- Practice sound clinical/office protocols to avoid diversion.
- Demonstrate clinical skills knowledge through given case scenarios to common pain conditions.
- Demonstrate clinical skills knowledge through given case scenarios related to stage of addiction, that is, active addiction, in treatment, or in recovery.
New courses:
- The Chronic Pain Patient and Opioids: What's the Plan?
- Patient Choices: Aberrant Behaviors and the Treatment of Pain
- Communicating with Patients: Assessing Risk and Creating a Shared Approach
- Communicating with Colleagues: Integration and Consultation to Maximize Patient Outcomes
- Minimizing Diversion and Overdose Risk: Dealing with Unique Challenges of Opioid Treatment
- Assessing Progress: The Urine Drug Test and Other Monitoring
- Treating Chronic Pain in the High Risk Patient
Clinical Application Courses (Remove, Live, Standardized Patient Courses)
Clinical Cases With Common Pain Conditions: Treating Common Pain Conditions While Minimizing Risk of Addiction
Clinical Cases With Substance Use Problems: Treating Pain According to the Type of Substance Use Problem
Old Core Courses
1. Initial Assessment: Assessing for Substance Use Disorders at Initial Evaluations of Pain Patients
2. Initial Prescribing: Minimizing Risk of Substance Use Disorders When Initially Prescribing Controlled Substances to Pain Patients
3. Ongoing Management: Managing Substance Misuse and Addiction in Ongoing Treatment of Chronic Pain Patients
4. Avoiding Diversion: Protecting Your Medical Practice from Diversion Problems
New courses:
- The Chronic Pain Patient and Opioids: What's the Plan?
- Patient Choices: Aberrant Behaviors and the Treatment of Pain
- Communicating with Patients: Assessing Risk and Creating a Shared Approach
- Communicating with Colleagues: Integration and Consultation to Maximize Patient Outcomes
- Minimizing Diversion and Overdose Risk: Dealing with Unique Challenges of Opioid Treatment
- Assessing Progress: The Urine Drug Test and Other Assessments
- Treating Chronic Pain in the High Risk Patient
Clinical Application Courses: Clinical Cases With Common Pain Conditions • Clinical Cases With Substance Use Problems
Old Core Courses: Initial Assessment • Initial Prescribing • Ongoing Management • Avoiding Diversion• Avoiding Overdose
Standardized Patients: Pain and Addiction Standardized Patient Example 1
