California dentists can take a new online course that meets the necessities for opioid use disorder coaching for licensure.
“Opioid Prescribing for Dentists: Pain Management, Addiction and Prescribing,” created by Western University of Health Sciences in partnership with CDA, is eligible for two items of constant schooling and is the most recent providing from CDA to assist dentists keep compliance with legal guidelines and laws associated to prescribing and shelling out managed substances.
As a good thing about membership, CDA members can take the course for a considerably discounted value.
Managing ache, understanding dangers and authorized necessities
The distinctive and interesting course format follows six fictional sufferers at six fictional dental practices over the course of a day. Through these six affected person consultations, course attendees be taught concerning the very totally different affected person shows they might encounter in their apply. The course ends with the dentists highlighting key factors from the consultations.
The two-hour course is open to all dentists in California, however dentists who’ve DEA registrations and prescribe managed substances, together with periodontists, oral surgeons and anesthesiologists, will particularly profit from the course materials.
Specifically, contributors will be taught:
- How to handle acute and power ache in the dental setting
- The dangers and identification of opioid use disorder
- The practices and authorized necessities for opioid prescribing and shelling out
The course is offered to CDA members at a reduced value of $50. Nonmembers can pay $80. Dentists can register now for the course via CDA’s online studying platform. Attendees can full the course at their very own tempo.
Compliance assets and extra schooling from CDA
Opioid use disorder is usually known as “opioid abuse or dependence” and is a sample of use that causes vital impairment and misery. The March 2019 concern of the Journal of the California Dental Association is devoted to the subject of opioid misuse and supplies vital ideas of substance-abuse issues, ache administration and prescription medicine diversion.
In addition, CDA presents informed-consent types in English and Spanish, FAQs on CURES and prescribing and shelling out and different assets developed by CDA’s compliance analysts. Most CDA assets require member’s account login to entry, however opioid-related assets can be found to nonmembers too.
Dentists on the lookout for different studying alternatives associated to controlled-substance prescribing and ache administration can discover them at CDA’s schooling conference, CDA Presents The Art and Science of Dentistry. CDA Presents in San Francisco is going on Sept. 8-10 and is open for registration.