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Integrative Approaches to Chronic Pain Management Course

Learn Better Strategies For Treating Your Patients With Chronic Pain

Earn up to 12 AAFP Prescribed Credits and
4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

ABOUT THE COURSE

Chronic pain care is more than challenging. Patients aren’t satisfied with the care they receive. Clinicians aren’t satisfied with the tools they have to provide relief.

This self-directed course aims to present ideas for thinking about new approaches to patients with chronic pain, with the goal of finding alternatives or additions to treating with opioid analgesics.

Over four modules you will learn a new way to approach patients with chronic pain, how to move from conflict to collaboration patients, expanded options for treating chronic pain, and how to energize patients to treat their symptoms and decrease their opioid use.

This course is jointly provided by Tufts University School of Medicine Office of Continuing Education and Center for Innovation in Family Medicine. It is made possible by a grant from Samueli Foundation.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is specially designed for clinicians who care for patients with chronic pain including Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Pharmacists, Clinical Psychologists, and Specialists.

Earn up to 12 AAFP Prescribed Credits and 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

To obtain AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, you will need to register, view the content, successfully complete the post-test with a minimum score of 75%, and complete the evaluation. Once a module is completed, the certificate will be available to print/save immediately upon completion of the evaluation and will also be accessible in your free eeds account. Complete accreditation and disclosure information is shown prior to the start of each module.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Introduction to integrative approaches to chronic pain management

How is chronic pain different? How does the chronic disease model help us to better help patients?

Chronic pain: From conflict to collaboration

How can we “rewrite the patient’s chronic pain story” to regain mutual trust and create a new understanding of pain?

Expanding options for treating pain

What are the evidence-based, non-drug approaches to helping patients to minimize their pain to achieve their goals?

From failed treatments to healing journey

How can we use teams, group visits, and partnering with other practitioners to improve our care of patients with chronic pain?

WHAT YOU WILL EARN

A Certification in Integrative Approaches to Managing Patients with Chronic Pain

Course Description

This four-part series on non-pharmacologic approaches to pain teaches learners new ways of thinking about managing patients with chronic pain and provides new approaches to help patients live more fulfilling lives.

Course 1: Integrative Approaches to Chronic Pain Management- Introduction

Course 2: Chronic Pain: From Conflict to Collaboration

Course 3: Putting HOPE Into Action- Expanding Options for Treating Chronic Pain

Course 4: From Failed Treatments to the Healing Journey

This activity is approved for CMEs through both AAFP and AMA.

Credit approval includes the following session(s):

1.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – Integrative Approaches to Managing Patients with Chronic Pain: Introduction
2.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – Integrative Approaches to Managing Patients with Chronic Pain: Introduction – Translation To Practice
1.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – Chronic Pain: From Conflict to Collaboration
2.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – Chronic Pain: From Conflict to Collaboration – Translation To Practice
1.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – Putting HOPE into Action: Expanding Options for Treating Chronic Pain
2.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – Putting HOPE into Action: Expanding Options for Treating Chronic Pain – Translation To Practice
1.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – From Failed Treatments to the Healing Journey
2.00 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed Credit(s) – From Failed Treatments to the Healing Journey – Translation To Practice

Following this CME activity, participants will have the opportunity to earn an additional two Prescribed credits for participation in each Translation to Practice® exercise. Information on Translation to Practice® will be shared within the activity.”

INSTRUCTORS

Andrea Gordon, MD

Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University Family Medicine Residency, Cambridge Health Alliance

Wayne Jonas, President of Healing Works Foundation

Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, President of Healing Works Foundation

Allen F. Shaughnessy
Pharm.D., M.Med.Ed.

Professor and Vice Chair of Family Medicine for Research
Tufts University School of Medicine

Randi Sokol
MD, MPH, MMedEd

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University Family Medicine Residency, Cambridge Health Alliance

Chronic pain.
It’s a shared frustration.

Physicians aren’t satisfied. Patients aren’t satisfied.

In this two minute video, course instructors Drs. Gordon and Jonas describe the need for new tools and new ways of thinking about chronic pain management.

ENDORSEMENTS

``Thank you for providing a practical step by step course to support the whole person when treating the patient suffering from chronic pain. This course is a must for every clinician and anyone working in health care. The curriculum will have an impact on patient experience, clinician experience, clinical outcomes and the opiate crisis. It offers hope to everyone who is touched by patients who suffers from chronic pain.``

Francoise Adan, MD, ABIHM
Director UH Connor Integrative Health Network
Christopher M. and Sara H. Connor Chair in Integrative Health
Assistant Professor CWRU
Board of Directors Chair of the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine and Health

``For decades, Dr. Wayne Jonas and his colleagues have been leading thinkers, researchers, and practitioners in scientifically-grounded Integrative Medicine. This new course puts their experience and advice within easy reach of anyone who wants to begin to learn and master these methods in application to Chronic Pain Management. It can open the eyes of clinicians to a much broader portfolio of methods for helping.``

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

``With chronic pain an epidemic in this country and one that has been only exacerbated by this time of increased stress, this online series couldn’t be more timely or relevant. All healthcare providers will benefit from the program and more importantly, our patients who are suffering and looking for guidance on non-medication options.``

Adam Perlman, MD
Director, Integrative Health and Wellbeing
Mayo Clinic, Florida

``The Tufts Integrative Pain Management course provides a thoughtfully created and foundationally important resource. It delves into the difficult but vital conversations that need to happen surrounding pain care. This course provides a patient-centered approach to having this conversation in a way that creates HOPE while optimizing pain management and quality of life.”

Robert Bonakdar MD FAAFP FACN
Director of Pain Management
Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

``Pain has always been a song line in the musical score of human lives. Too often, pain’s sound becomes harsh and dissonant concealing the many other melodies of our lives and too many clinician healers lack the framework and resources to help. Finally, we are being offered instruments and notes showing us ways to harmonize and integrate pain’s song line back into healthy meaning. Engage this course material and learn to compose music of hope.”

William L. Miller, MD, MA
Chair Emeritus and Professor of Family Medicine
Department of Family Medicine
Lehigh Valley Health Network
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine

Improve Your Approach to Chronic Pain Care

Earn up to 12 AAFP Prescribed Credits and 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

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