Support your controlled substance prescribers in fulfilling their MATE requirements
With our MATE-aligned curriculum
Med-IQ’s easy-to-access, thoughtfully designed suite of pain management, opioid prescribing, and substance misuse courses are designed to strategically fulfill multiple requirements and recommendations in one curriculum:
- Aligns with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration best practices
- Meets The Joint Commission pain assessment competency requirements and health-equity standards
Courses
Challenges in Chronic Pain Management
Address issues related to the treatment of patients receiving long-term opioid therapy, including the inadvertent, inappropriate translation of pain management guidelines into practice; the value of implementing shared decision-making; and more.
Disparities in the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Gain an understanding of factors driving inequity in the treatment of opioid use disorders in the US. Explore the patient burden of evidence-based treatment options and the impact of implicit bias on patients with this stigmatized disease.
Equianalgesia: Opioids Are Not All Created Equal
Explore the differences in potency between various opioids and routes of administration in the context of chronic pain. Review foundational principles of equianalgesia as well as risk and safety considerations when using “dosing calculators.”
Health Equity: Pain Management
Learn about race-related healthcare disparities and strategies to expose implicit bias, such as auditing the language used within notes or the time spent with different patient groups. This course includes a plethora of case studies that highlight a variety of considerations for different patient presentations.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Safely Manage
Opioid Analgesia
Review case scenarios that highlight the increased risk of opioid-induced respiratory depression (OIRD) in hospitalized patients. Learn about the need to assess and identify risk factors for OIRD, make appropriate modifications to the plan of care to mitigate risks, and more
Managing Addiction: Opioids and Alternatives
Dive into the risks of undertreating acute withdrawal symptoms and managing chronic pain confounded by mental health and substance use disorders, as well as mitigating interventions.
Opioid Crisis: What You Still Might Not Know
Learn about options for managing acute pain in patients who are opioid tolerant or opioid dependent, best strategies for managing pain in patients with life-limiting conditions, communication strategies for altering care plans for patients with suspected substance misuse, and more.
Patient-Centered Pain Assessment
Explore strategies to individualize the pain screening and assessment process, including ascertaining patients preferences; assessing patients’ ability to communicate and understand; and selecting the most appropriate validated tools available.
Refreshing Our Approach to Opioids: Alternatives, Benzos, and Risky Behavior
Gain an understanding of non-opioid alternatives for pain management and regulatory and practical recommendations for reducing risk associated with benzodiazepines.
Why invest in clinical education?
- Reduce Healthcare Costs
- Improve Patient Outcomes
- Lower Legal and Liability Costs
- Gain Productivity
- Impact Public Health
- Enhance Reputation
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