2020 Rhode Island Medical Licensure Program
The 2020 Rhode Island Medical Licensure Program is designed to satisfy mandatory CME requirements for Physicians and other healthcare professionals in the state of Rhode Island. Completion of this program will satisfy a total of 6 Category 1 hours, one (1) hour of training on Alzheimer's Disease and four (4) hours on Public Health Topics of current concern.
Course One: Managing Alzheimer's Disease (1 credit)
- Course Dates 03/2020 - 02/2023
Course Two: Opioid Analgesics in the Management of Acute and Chronic Pain (3 Credits)
- Course Dates 09/2019 - 08/2022
Course Three: Managing Acute Pain (2 Credits)
- Course Dates 09/2019 - 08/2022
Target Audience
This course is designed for all health care practitioners.
Learning Objectives
Course one: Managing Alzheimer's Disease
Completion of this course will better enable the course participant to:
- Describe non-pharmacological approaches for managing patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).
- Explain pharmacological options for managing patients with AD.
- Explain pharmacological therapeutic options for managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
- Describe non-pharmacological approaches for managing patients with BPSD.
Course Two: Opioid Analgesics in the management of acute and chronic pain
Completion of this course will better enable the course participant to:
- Discuss the fundamental concepts of pain management, including pain types and mechanisms of action of major analgesics.
- Identify the range of therapeutic options for managing acute and chronic pain, including non-pharmacologic approaches and pharmacologic (non-opioid and opioid analgesics) therapies.
- Explain how to integrate opioid analgesics into a pain treatment plan individualized to the needs of the patient, including counseling patients and caregivers about the safe use of opioid analgesics.
- Discuss recommendations for incorporating emergency opioid antagonists into prescribing practice, and for training patients and family members on the use of naloxone.
- Recognize the risks of addiction inherent in the use of opioids for both acute and chronic pain and identify strategies to mitigate risks of diversion and misuse.
- Identify medications currently approved for the treatment of opioid use disorder and the ways these medications differ in terms of mechanisms of action, regulatory requirements, and modes of administration.
Course Three: Managing acute pain
Completion of this course will better enable the course participant to:
- Recognize how many patients might be at risk each year of developing dependence, abuse, or overdose as a result of being prescribed opioids for acute pain.
- Compare opioid-induced hyperalgesia with opioid analgesia.
- Identify 2 common tools for assessing patients’ risk of abusing opioids.
- Describe 5 examples of non-pharmacologic pain management techniques.
- Identify 3 examples of non-opioid pharmacologic treatments for acute pain.
Additional Information
Paul J. Christo, MD, MBA
Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program (2003-2011)
Director, Blaustein Pain Treatment Center (2003-2008)
Division of Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
Melissa B. Weimer, DO, MCR, FASAM
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Stephen Braun Medical
Medical Writer
Braun Medical Communications
Russell H. Swerdlow, MD
Professor of Neurology Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Kansas School of Medicine
George Perry, PhD
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
Semmes Foundation Distinguished University Chair in Neurobiology
The University of Texas at San Antonio
DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support of CME, InforMed implemented mechanisms, prior to the planning and implementation of this CME activity, to identify and resolve conflicts of interest for all individuals in a position to control content of this CME activity.
InforMed is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Available Credit
- 6.00 MOC
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Price
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