Boston Medical Center (BMC) Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)

A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals

Waiver Trained: Now What? The Nuts and Bolts of Addiction Treatment

March 10, 2021
6:00 pm–8:00 pm ET

This training will prepare prescribers to handle practical considerations when treating patients with opioid use disorders in office settings.

PLEASE NOTE: This training is being held via Zoom

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Virtual meeting

Via Zoom

Description

This training will provide waivered prescribers 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. 

This training will be held via Zoom. Complete information on how to join via Zoom will be emailed to you the week of the training.

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.

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

Intended audience

Prescribers who have recently obtained their MAT waiver (or who are contemplating getting their waiver) and are looking to increase provision of care for patients with substance use disorder in an outpatient setting.

Speakers

Charmaine Lastimoso, MPH, MSN, NP-C, CARN-AP Vanessa Loukas, MSN, FNP-C, CARN-AP

Objectives

The learner will be able to:

Sponsored by

Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Addiction Services

Accreditation information

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

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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.

Funding for Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is provided by:

Massachusetts Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS)
GE Foundation
Opioid Response Network

The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.


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