Buprenorphine Implementation: Addressing Common Challenges in Hospital and Clinic Settings
Created February 2025 Online Course
Overview
Buprenorphine Implementation: Addressing Common Challenges in Hospital and Clinic Settings is a one hour online course designed for clinicians involved in the treatment of opioid use disorder. This course equips healthcare professionals with advanced strategies to address the complex challenges of buprenorphine prescribing for opioid use disorder (OUD) in both hospital and clinic settings. Using case-based learning, participants will explore real-world scenarios where common clinical, patient-related, legal/regulatory, cost/insurance, and organizational barriers arise. The course will offer practical solutions for navigating these challenges, ensuring adherence to evidence-based practices and enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration. Learners will leave with a stronger understanding of how to optimize buprenorphine treatment across various healthcare environments, improving patient outcomes and overcoming common barriers to treatment.
Thetarget audience for this advanced level course include: physicians, nurse practitioners/nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and other clinicians. Clinicians who see patients with addiction in primary care, emergency/urgent care, treatment center, or general psychiatry settings.
The ACGME competencies include: Patient Care and Procedural Skills, Medical Knowledge, Practice-based Learning and Improvement, and Systems-based Practice.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
Differentiate between managing buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder in hospital and clinic settings.
Recognize common challenges related to clinical care, patient management, regulatory compliance, and organizational barriers in buprenorphine treatment for OUD in hospital and clinic settings.
Apply practical strategies to overcome these challenges in both hospital and clinic settings.
DEA Education Requirement
As an accredited organization named in Section 1263 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, ASAM certifies that the completion of this course counts toward meeting the DEA requirement for 8 hours of education on substance use disorder(s).
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Open Registration: 02/24/2025 - 01/24/2028
Close Access Date: 02/24/2028
Acknowledgement
This content has been made available in part by an unrestricted educational grant from Indivior. No input or influence from Indivior was included in the development of the educational content. As an ACCME Provider, ASAM follows the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence for Accredited Continuing Education stating that owners and employees of ineligible companies are excluded from participating as planners or faculty, and must not be allowed to influence or control any aspect of the planning, delivery, or evaluation of accredited continuing education.
Course Instructions
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Stephen Holt, MD, MS, FACP, FASAM
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Program Director, Ambulatory Education
Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Holt has been an attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital since 2008 and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Yale Addiction Recovery Clinic and the Associate Program Director for Yale's Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. He is board-certified in Addiction Medicine and Internal Medicine. He has published and lectures frequently on a variety of addiction medicine topics, and has won numerous teaching awards at the local, regional, and national level.
No relevant financial disclosures.
Tiffany Lu, MD, MS, FASAM
Associate Professor of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Tiffany Lu, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Health Systems and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She is the Medical Director of Montefiore's Buprenorphine Treatment Network, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of primary care clinicians and treatment coordinators to deliver opioid use disorder treatment and overdose prevention services across 7 community health centers. Dr. Lu is also the principal investigator of a SAMHSA grant award to expand addiction medicine education at Montefiore-Einstein, which includes a new, structured clinical rotation in addiction medicine for medical residents. Additionally, she founded Montefiore's Addiction Medicine "Bridge" Clinic to provide interdisciplinary care for patients who are new to medications for addiction treatment. Dr Lu's research focus is on innovations and outcomes in primary care-based addiction treatment, particularly in low-income and racial minority communities disproportionally affected by overdose deaths.
Prior to joining Montefiore-Einstein, Dr. Lu graduated from University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and completed her residency training in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.
In support of improving patient care, the American Society of Addiction Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Certified Counselors: NBCC Contact Hours Not Offered
American Society of Addiction Medicine has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7062. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. American Society of Addiction Medicine is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)/Continuing Certification Program (CCP)
This activity is designed to meet the requirements for MOC/CCP for several primary physician boards and for state licensing CME requirements. MOC Credit is only reported and designated for ABA, ABP, ABIM, and ABS. By completing the online credit application and evaluation, the learner permits ASAM to report credits to the appropriate Board. Learn more.
ABIM MOC Points: 1 Medical Knowledge | 1 Patient Safety
ABP MOC: 1 Lifelong Learning & Self-Assessment
ABS Continuing Certification: 1 Accredited CME
ABA MOCA 2.0®*: 1 Lifelong Learning | 1 Patient Safety MOCA 2.0® is a trademark of the American board of Anesthesiology®. This activity contributes to the CME requirement for Part II: Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment of the American board of Anesthesiology's (ABA) redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® (MOCA®), known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, https://www.theaba.org/, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.
Additionally, this activity has been designed to satisfy the requirements of the following primary physician board certification requirements. Please confirm with your individual Board.
American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM)
American Board of Preventative Medicine (ABPM)
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
Certificates for other professions
All participants may request a certificate of participation upon completion of the activity and an online evaluation confirming their participation. Learners are strongly advised to contact their professional licensing board or professional association to confirm this certificate will be accepted as evidence supporting continuing education requirements.
California Association for Drug/Alcohol Educators (CAADE)
This educational program is approved by CAADE: #CP40 999 1225.
California Association of DUI Treatment Centers (CADTP)
This educational program is approved by CADTP: #205.
California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP)
This educational program is approved by CCAPP: #OS-20-330-1227.
Disclosure Information
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Up to 1.00 medical credits available | Certificate available
Up to 1.00 medical credits available | Certificate available
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