A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
August 17, 2020
3:30 pm–5:00 pm ET
This 1.5 hour session will be a discussion on the benefits of micro-dosing a patient with buprenorphine.
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This 1.5 hour session will be a discussion on the benefits of micro-dosing a patient with buprenorphine. Situations when this is appropriate and how to practice this.
This training will be held via Zoom. We would prefer that you log in using a computer with a web cam so that we can all connect to each other via video. Please note that signing on with video is required to receive CEs. If you do not have access to a web cam, please let us know.
OTP and OBAT staff providing treatment for substance use disorders
Dr. Joji Suzuki, MD, Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry and Director of Addictions Education in the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His areas of clinical and research interests are the assessment and management of substance use disorders and related conditions in medical settings, motivational interviewing, office-based opioid treatment, implementation of collaborative models of care, and medical education. Dr. Suzuki is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.
Identify potential barriers to and strategies to address a home or office-based transfer from methadone to buprenorphine.
Discuss the rationale for micro-dosing with buprenorphine in a patient with opioid use disorder.
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Boston Medical Center grants 1.50 hours to all nurses who attend, complete the evaluation, and complete the post test. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Boston University School of Social Work which is authorized through the MA state board of Social Work to provide 1.50 CE Credit Hours.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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