Online CME Courses

Pain Management/Prescribing Opioids

Featured Online CME Courses – FREE

The Massachusetts Medical Society has long been a leader in providing continuing medical education about critical public health issues, including pain management.

In an effort to remove as many barriers as possible to prescriber education, MMS online CME/CPD activities on pain management and opioid prescribing are available to all prescribers — for free — until further notice. This includes not only our current suite of courses, but those due to be released in upcoming months.

In March 2016, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law, Chapter 52 – Acts of 2016; measures to help reduce prescription drug and opioid abuse. The provisions of the law are outlined in the following document: Fact Sheet: An Act Relative to Substance Use Treatment, Education and Prevention. We encourage all prescribers to carefully review the Fact Sheet (as a number of provisions are effective immediately) and to participate in any (or all) of the following CME/CPD courses. We hope that you will incorporate risk management strategies into your practice to help reduce the number of opioids prescribed in the Commonwealth, and related opioid abuse, addiction and deaths.

• Massachusetts Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT) NEW
  Incorporating the New PMP into Your Practice
  1.00 CME Credit | RM | Video & Slides
• New Opioid Prescribing Guidelines in Practice1.00 CME Credit | RM | Video & Slides
• Managing Pain Without Overusing Opioids(updated)3.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Graphics
• The Opioid Epidemic: Policy and Public Health (6 modules)(updated)2.75 CME Credits | RM | Video & Slides
• Legal Advisor: Identifying Drug Dependence1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• Managing Risk When Prescribing Narcotic Painkillers1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• Opioid Prescribing Series (6 modules)6.00 CME Credits | RM | Text
• Principles of Palliative Care & Persistent Pain Management (2 Modules)3.00 CME Credits | RM | Video

Bold Steps To End The Opioid Epidemic

• A Message from MMS President Dennis M. Dimitri, MD
• MMS Opioid Therapy and Physician Communication Guidelines

About MMS’s Pain Management/Opioid Prescribing CME Joint Providers and contributors

The following organizations have contributed to the development of MMS Pain Management/Opioid Prescribing CME. Click the individual link below to learn more.

• Alosa Health, Inc. 
• Massachusetts Pain Initiative
• The Answer Page
• The MMS Legal Advisory Plan

Course Category Index

End-of-Life Care

• Starting the Conversation about End-of-Life Care with Patients  NEW

  1.00 CME Credits | RM | Text

• Legal Advisor: An Introduction to Advance Directives  NEW1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• End-of-Life Care and Non-Disclosure: Case Study  NEW1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• End of Life Series (3 Modules)

  1.00 CME Credits | RM | Text

• Principles of Palliative Care & Persistent Pain Management (3 Modules)2.75 CME Credits | RM | Video

Pain Management

• New Opioid Prescribing Guidelines in Practice1.00 CME Credit | RM | Video & Slides
• Managing Pain Without Overusing Opioids3.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Graphics
• The Opioid Epidemic: Policy and Public Health (6 Modules)2.75 CME Credits | RM | Video & Slides
• Legal Advisor: Identifying Drug Dependence1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• Managing Risk When Prescribing Narcotic Painkillers for Patients1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• Opioid Prescribing Series (6 modules)6.00 CME Credits | RM | Text
• Principles of Palliative Care & Persistent Pain Management (2 Modules)3.00 CME Credits | RM | Video

Communication

• Teleheath: A Primer
  1.50 CME Credits | RM | Text & Video NEW
  
• Legal Advisor: Dealing with Difficult Patients NEW1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• Empathetics: Neuroscience of Emotions (3 Modules)3.00 CME Credits | RM | Video
• Impact of Effective Communication on Patients, Colleagues, and Metrics (2 Modules)2.75 CME Credits | RM | Video
• Legal Advisor: Terminating the Physician-Patient Relationship1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• Legal Advisor: Legal Duties When a Patient Raises Suicide1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text

Clinical Medicine

• Efficacy of FIT-FOBT for Colorectal Cancer Screening
  

  1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text & Slides

  Prostate Cancer and Primary Care1.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Video
• Breast Cancer Screening:Update on Guidelines and the Ongoing Controversy1.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Video
• Colorectal Screening Guidelines1.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Graphics
• Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines2.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Slides

Alosa Health Topics in Clinical Medicine 

• Helping Patients with COPD Breath Easier  NEW2.50 CME Credits | Text & Graphics
• Just a Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Sugar Go Down: Improving the Management of Type 2 Diabetes2.50 CME Credits | Text & Graphics
• Weighing the Evidence on Obesity2.50 CME Credits | Text & Graphics
• Preventing Overuse of Antipsychotic Drugs in Nursing Home Care2.50 CME Credits | RM | Text & Graphics
• Managing Pain Without Overusing Opioids3.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Graphics

Ethics

End-of-Life Care and Non-Disclosure: Case Study  NEW

1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text

End of Life Series (3 Modules)

1.00 CME Credits | RM | Text

Electronic Health Records

• Electronic Health Records (3 Modules)4.00 CME Credit | RM | Text/Slide/Video

Medical Marijuana

• Comprehensive Cannabis Curriculum (5 Modules)
  

  CME Credits | RM | Text
  
  

  Medical Marijuana (4 Modules)2.25 CME Credit | RM | Video
• Medical Marijuana - Medical, Legal, Social and Political IssuesCME Credits | RM | Text

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

• Effective Chart Review1.00 CME Credit | RM | Slide/Audio
• Medical Mistakes: Learn To Steer Clear of Common Ones1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
  

Practice Management

• Running on Empty? Physicians' Path to Enjoying Life and Medicine More NEW1.00 CME Credits | RM | Slides/Audio
• Transitioning to Alternative Payment Models1.00 CME Credits | RM | Slides/Audio
• Payer Audits and Payment Recoupments1.00 CME Credits | RM | Slides/Audio
• ICD-10: Beyond Implementation1.00 CME Credits | RM | Video
• Understanding Clinical Documentation Requirements for ICD-101.00 CME Credits | RM | Video
• Physician Employment Options in Healthcare Environment1.00 CME Credits | RM | Video
• Physician Employment Contracting Basics1.00 CME Credit | Video
• Financial Management of Practices Case Studies (3 Modules)3.00 CME Credits | Text & Video

Public Health

• Concussion Treatment, Management and Prevention: In School and on the Field NEW
  1.50 CME Credits | RM | Video & Slides
• Talking to Patients About Gun Safety NEW
  

  1.00 CME Credit | RM | Video & Slides

• Massachusetts Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT) NEW
  Incorporating the New PMP into Your Practice
  

  1.00 CME Credit | RM | Video & Slides

• Firearm Violence: Policy, Prevention & Public Health (6 Modules)

  2.75 CME Credits | Slides w/ Audio

• Initiating a Conversation with Patients on Gun Safety1.50 CME Credit | Slides w/ Audio
• Intimate Partner Violence: The Clinician’s Guide to Identification, Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention3.00 CME Credits | RM | Text & Graphics
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning1.00 CME Credit | Slides w/ Audio
• Genetically Modified - Foods Benefits and Risks1.00 CME Credits | Text
• Cause of Death Training for Medical Certifiers1.00 CME Credit | RM | Slides

Risk Management CME

• Legal Advisor: Terminating the Doctor-Patient Relationship1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text
• Avoiding Medical Mistakes and Errors NEW 1.00 CME Credit | RM | Text