A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
November 4, 2019
4:00 pm–6:00 pm ET
This training will prepare prescribers to handle practical considerations when treating patients with opioid use disorders in office settings.
Boston Medical Center - Crosstown Building
801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor
Room 2128
Boston, MA
This training will provide waivered prescribers and their support staff the skills needed to actually implement office-based addiction treatment into an ambulatory practice setting. Additionally, this talk will provide expert, concrete tips to facilitate the provision of care for patients with substance use disorders utilizing medications in their treatment.
Check-in for the course will run from 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM, and the course will run from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM.
We will be offering 2.0 continuing education credits for NPs and 1.75 CMEs.
This is not a training to receive your buprenorphine waiver.
This is an in-person training. There will not be an option to attend via webinar.
To request reasonable accomodations for a disability, please notify Shereen Sodder (shereen.sodder@bmc.org), in writing, at least two weeks prior to the conference.
Course Director: Dan Alford, MD, MPH
Prescribers and their support staff treating patients with substance use disorder in an office setting.
The learner will: understand the medication induction, stabilitation, and maintenance procedures; learn how to address substance use during treatment and issues of adherence; and understand how to apply this knowledge to support special populations.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Addiction Services
ACCME Accreditation Statement
Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
Boston University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ANCC Accreditation/Approval Statement
Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University School of Medicine is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Contact Hours: 2.00