Education Resources to Meet Physician Licensure Requirements

  Opioids

Feinberg Accredited activities

Northwestern University Opioid Modules: Thirteen 10-15 minute online modules. Total 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Management of Acute & Chronic Pain: A Case-based Approach to Novel Strategies for Reducing Opioid Consumption; Dost Khan, MD and Sterling Elliott, PharmD, BCMTMS 

Alternatives to opioids for pain management John V. Prunskis, MD

Opioid Analgesics and the Neural Mechanisms of Addiction Amiel Rosenkranz, PhD

Neurobiology of opioid-induced respiratory depression; Kaiwen Kam, PhD

Telepsychiatry’s Role in Medication Assisted Treatment in Opioid Use Disorder;
Sajoy P Varghese, MD

Buprenorphine: an introduction and its use for chronic pain; Brian Chung, MD

Buprenorphine: its use for OUD and opioid dependence; Brian Chung, MD

Safe Opioid Prescribing: System-wide Best Practices; Sterling Elliott PharmD, BCMTMS  and Dost Khan, MD

Non-Feinberg Opioid activities and resources

American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM): ASAM DEA Education Requirements

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Opioid basics, data, overdose prevention, guidelines, and trainings. (Free. Multiple modules with CME available).  

NEJM Knowledge+ Pain Management and Opioids focus module. (Free. CME and MOC available)

Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS): Opioids: Resources to Combat Misuse, Abuse, and Overdose.  (Fee associated; free for ISMS members). CME available).

AMA Ed Hub: collection of over 90 credit hours that meet the new DEA requirements available here.

American College of Physicians: ACP - DEA Requirement Education (Free for members, otherwise fee-associated; multiple modalities w CME).

National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): NIH-NIKDA CME/CE Activities (Free. Multiple modalities; CME available)

Podcasts: The Curbsiders Addiction Medicine podcasts offer accredited CME: How to Claim CME Credit for Podcasts (Free. CME Available).

Sexual Harassment Prevention

Feinberg Accredited activities

Northwestern Annual “Preventing Harassment and Discrimination” Module* (Three hours of sexual harassment prevention, that will meet the IL and Chicago requirements).
*For Northwestern University faculty and staff only. Requires you to log in using your NetID and
password. For questions or issues logging in, contact the University support desk:
[email protected], or speak to a Support Specialist by calling 847-491-4357 (1-HELP).

Northwestern Medicine Sexual Harassment Prevention for Illinois Licensed Health Care Professionals- Maintaining a Respectful Workspace: Preventing Sexual Harassment**:
**For Northwestern Medicine physician and staff only. Requires you to log in using your NM user name and password. For questions or issues logging in, contact the HELP Desk 312.926.4357
(https://nmhc.service-now.com/) or MyHR 312.926.4642 ([email protected] or [email protected])

Non-Feinberg Sexual Harassment Prevention activities and resources

Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) – Sexual Harassment Prevention Training (Fee associated. CME available).

Dementia

Feinberg Accredited activities

Understanding Dementia: Characterization, Diagnosis, and Patient Care - Joshua
Cahan MD

Recognizing Dementia; Heeren Patel, MD

Non-Feinberg Dementia activities and resources

Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) – Dementia. (Fee associated.)

Illinois Academy of Family Physicians Online Education:  Dementia  (Free online course after creating an account).

AMA EdHub (free):
1 hour: Screening and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's and Related Dementias
1 hour: Treatment of Alzheimer's and Related Dementias

The Doctor’s Company. Dementia CME Series (Free)

Cultural Competency

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Comprehensive Educational Resource Sites

UpToDate, an online evidence-based clinical decision support resource, can provide both CME and MOC (for participating boards). The user must login and add their board information to their profile. This tutorial is a helpful resource for setting up an account.

CME Passport, a CME search engine provided by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), is a large database of accredited education and searchable by keywords such as “tobacco use” or “opioid safety”.  The user creates a profile and credits are tracked in a transcript. User can filter by “Fee” to locate free activities.

AMA Ed Hub, an online resource of over 4000+ CME activities from multiple sources.  The user may login with AMA credentials or create a free account. Most courses are free.