INT1736 - Safe Opioid Prescribing Skills Webinar Series

Program Description

This series of 3 webinars has been created to assist physicians in acquiring knowledge and learning new skills in the field of pain management, especially in the area of chronic non-cancer pain. 

Course Goals: 

• Develop multi-modal approaches to complex chronic pain.
• Initiate & manage safe & effective opioid therapy.
• Prevent & address addiction to prescription opioids.
• Develop communication & collaboration practice skills to better manage opioid therapy for your chronic pain patients.

Program Outline

Webinar 1: Assessing Chronic Complex Pain

Learning Objectives: 

• Differentiate diverse etiologies of complex chronic pain
• Recognize the complex illness experience of complex chronic pain
• Develop multi-modal approaches to manage complex chronic pain

Webinar 2: Prescribing Opioids in Chronic Pain

Learning Objectives

• Define your professional responsibility to manage patients’ chronic pain
• Evaluate the effectiveness of opioid therapy for different chronic pain conditions
• Assess your patients’ risk of opioid overdose, misuse and addiction
• Initiate, monitor and manage opioid therapy for your chronic pain patients

Webinar 3: Addressing Opioid Challenges and Addiction

Learning Objectives

• Establish an Opioid Treatment Agreement, which allows for Urine Drug Screening, with your patients
• Prescribe opioids for special populations. (Patients on multiple medications, Elderly patients, Adolescent patients, Pregnant patients, Patients with co-morbid psychiatric disorders
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals. (Physician colleagues for inherited or transferred patients, Referral consultants with Pain and Addiction expertise, Acute and urgent health care providers, Pharmacists)
• Recognize and manage opioid misuse and addiction in your patients

 Participation in all three webinars is mandatory for course completion.   

Notes

For more information visit the course website at: http://www.cpd.utoronto.ca/opioidprescribing/