AOAAM Education
PCSS Office-Based Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders Webinar - Saturday, 3/12/2022
- Registration Closed
This is PART 1 of the 8-hour waiver eligibility training.
NOTE: This training has a starting time of 8:00 am Eastern Time Zone. Please check your time zone for start time. Please download the Zoom app prior to training. https://zoom.us/ent?zcid=2582
Physicians are required to apply to the Drug Enforcement Agency for a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine, one of three medications approved by the FDA for the treatment of opioid use disorder. Those physicians who want to treat more than 30 patients at any one time, must take the 8-hour waiver course.
To treat more than 30 patients, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) (NP/CNM/CNS/CRNA) and Physician Assistants (PAs) must complete 24 hours of specialized training to prescribe buprenorphine. The training includes 8 hours of waiver training and an additional 16 hours of training.
The first half of the training is a 4.25-hour live webcast. The second half of the course is a 3.75-hour computer-based study. An examination on the computer study must be successfully completed within 30 days of the webinar session.
Instructions on how to log on to Part 2 of the course will be provided via email, ONLY to those who complete the 4.25-hour live webcast in its entirety. Please allow up to 48 hours to receive the email. It is MANDATORY that you are able to view and hear the presentation and participate in the interactive polling questions and case studies in order for the AOAAM to verify your attendance. PHONE ONLY PARTICIPATION DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR PARTICIPATION CREDIT.
The presenter will be available to answer questions after the training has been completed.
Please submit all questions to pcssmat@aoaam.org. All questions will be answered within 4-7 days.
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION:
This session has been approved for 4.25 AOA Category 1-A CME credits, providing all requirements have been met. It has also been approved for 4.25 AAFP Prescribed Credit hours, which are eligible for the AMA’s Physician Recognition Award Credit. Participants are required to attend the entire 4.25-hour session, participate in the interactive polling questions and complete the post-test with a passing grade of 70% in order to be eligible for CME credit. CME certificates will become available once all components of the training are fulfilled.
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Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI081968 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Stephen A. Wyatt
Dr. Wyatt is a graduate Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He practiced Emergency Medicine in Michigan for 13 years before entering a psychiatric residency at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University in 1993. He then entered a NIDA Clinical Research Fellowship in the Yale School of Medicine in Addiction Psychiatry. His primary interest and research has been in co-morbid problems, adolescents, and education. He sits on a variety of Federal committees on substance use disorders including the Physician Clinical Support System, PCSS, for Medication Assisted Treatment. He served on the expert panel for office based use of Buprenorphine for the Federation of State Medical Boards. He is the Past President of the Connecticut Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine. He was a Board Co-chair for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services He has been active in all levels of medical education in advocating for greater understanding and improvement in treatment of substance use problems in the provision of care.
This program has been approved for 4.25 AOA Category 1-A CME credits (live webcast session only) providing all requirements have been met. It has also been approved for 4.25 AAFP Prescribed Credit hours, which are eligible for the AMA’s Physician Recognition Award Credit. Participants are required to attend the entire 4.25-hour session, participate in the interactive polling questions and complete the post-test with a passing grade of 70% in order to be eligible for CME credit.
CME certificates will be provided 30 days after the training date.
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