Improving Opioid Prescribing and Patient Safety

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch

Program 5:00-8:30pm, check in begins at 4:30pm

Free - Advanced Registration Required

Registration and Additional Information

This 3-hour education session will feature an update on Chapter 488 and clinical content with a compassionate, patient-centered perspective, and will include “blitz” didactics, multi-media components, case-based studies and small group discussions.  The topics covered at this session will be:

• The Genesis of the Opioid Crisis: “How We Got Here”
• Opioid Basics:  MMEs & Tapering
• Legal and Regulatory Requirements for Opioid Prescribers
• Practice Transformation & QI for Opioids/Chronic Pain
• Harm Reduction: Naloxone & MAT

This MICIS presentation activity qualifies for a maximum of 3 CME credits of the 3 CME credit requirement for opioid medication education found in P.L. 2015, Chapter 488, Maine’s recent legislation to address the opioid drug abuse crisis.  Attendees should only claim credit for the hours they attend. 

Presenters: Erika Pierce MMSc., PA-C; Gordon Smith, Esq.; Stephen Hull, MD; Peter Leighton, MD

The Maine Independent Clinical Information Service (MICIS) is a program of the Maine Medical Association.