Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Opioid Prescriber Training Program
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
The purpose of the New York State (NYS) Prescription Drug Overdose (PDO) Prevention Program is to advance and evaluate comprehensive state-level interventions for preventing prescription drug overuse, misuse, abuse, and overdose. Effective July 22, 2016, Public Health Law Article 33 §3309-a was updated to require prescribers with a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number and medical residents prescribing under a facility DEA number to complete a minimum of three (3) hours of course work or training in pain management, palliative care and addiction. 
Understanding Dementia: Characterization, Diagnosis, and Patient Care
  • 1.00 AANP Contact Hours
  • 0.25 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
As people live longer, the burden of dementia will increase for families, society, and the healthcare system. This session will enable you to help your patients by teaching you how to classify, diagnose, and treat all forms of dementia. The session will also discuss the latest advancements in Alzheimer disease diagnosis and therapeutics.
Guidance on Professional Boundaries and Sexual Misconduct
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$50.00
Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$50.00
Controlled Substance Issues in Palliative Medicine and Geriatrics
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$65.00
Individuals sixty-five years and older account for one-third of all prescription medications.  Eighty-seven percent of the geriatric population were prescribed at least one medication, thirty-six percent were prescribed five or more medications, and thirty-eight percent also took over the counter medications.  Drug misuse and abuse in the elderly can cause cognitive and physical impairment: increase risk of falls, motor vehicle accidents, and may result in a declining ability to perform activities of daily living.
Treating Postoperative Pain: A Better Way
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$65.00
You might be surprised that your post-operative patients require fewer oral pain medications than you think.  Many patients are first exposed to opioids in a surgical setting.  A rather shocking statistic is that approximately 6% of surgical patients who are prescribed opioids become long-term users.  This course will describe the benefits of reduced or eliminated opioid use post-operatively.
Best Practices for Treating Pain with Opioid Analgesics
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$50.00
To provide the fundamentals of acute and chronic pain management and a contextual framework for the safer prescribing of opioid analgesics that includes consideration of a full complement of non-opioid treatment options.
New York: Opioid Overdose Prevention Program
$0.00
To streamline user access, Mocingbird provides a direct link to the UHS Addiction Medicine Department's approved courses for Opioid Overdose Prevention Program. The UHS Addiction Medicine Department runs a New York State Department of Health-certified opioid overdose prevention program. We provide overdose prevention training and linkage to naloxone (Narcan®) to all patients across our department’s care continuum. We also give trainings to individuals and groups in Binghamton and across Broome County.
New York: Trillium Health Virtual Narcan Training Sessions
$0.00
To streamline user access, Mocingbird provides a direct link to the Trillium Health's approved courses for Opioid Overdose Prevention Program. 
Applying Best Practices to Prevent, Identify and Manage Prescription Misuse
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$45.00
According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, more than 6 million Americans are misusing prescription drugs.  In 2015, Governor Baker announced that Massachusetts was in the midst of an opioid epidemic.  In 2019, there were 1,952 confirmed opioid-related overdose deaths.  The number of deaths continued to rise in 2020 with over 2,100 confirmed opioid-related overdose deaths which was a 5% increase over the previous year.

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