Activity ID
2050Expires
May 18, 2025Format Type
InternetCME Credit
2Fee
$100CME Provider: Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO)
Description of CME Course
Deaths from opioid overdose have risen to epidemic levels, leading to a proliferation of many regulations and counter-measures, such as the pharmacy drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). This monograph will assess the effectiveness of these measures, review existing clinical practice guidelines, and offer conservative prescribing principles and tools that can best help physicians define their own policies and reduce risk in prescribing controlled substances for their patients.
Diplomate Engagement
Pre and posttest evaluation at the end of the course. Post activity survey 3 months asking for what practice changes were made.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Family Medicine
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Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
To describe and assess the effectiveness of recent regulations aimed at reducing opioid mortality.
To characterize the state of clinical practice guidelines on the subject of prescribing long-term opioids.
To explain principles of conservative prescribing as they apply to pain medications.
To define your own policies on prescribing controlled substances: Implement the most appropriate toolsand guidelines for managing patients receiving opioids in your practice.
Keywords
Controlled substance, Pain Medication, Chronic pain, Drug Overdose, Prescription, Patient Contracts, Opioid Use, Opioid Abuse, Long Acting Opioids, Hydrocodone, Controlled Substances Act, Medical Knowledge
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Professionalism, Systems-based Practice
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Inpatient, Outpatient, Rural, Urban
National Quality Strategies and/or Quadruple Aim Care Processes
Patient Safety/Medical Errors, Cognition, Human Learning & Problem Solving, Community Health
