The ASAM Pain & Addiction Essentials Online - Module 6: Interdisciplinary Care
Updated: August 2024 On-Demand Module
Overview
This 30 minute on-demand module covers will discuss interdisciplinary approaches to treating pain and addiction. This is the last of six modules in The ASAM Pain & Addiction Essentials series.
Treating pain, particularly chronic pain, and addiction is complex, and often calls for multimodal care from multiple providers. This 30 minute on-demand module is the final module in the Essentials Online series on pain and addiction care. It touches on the challenges in delivering multidisciplinary, multimodal care to patients with pain and addiction, and how an interdisciplinary approach can support delivering this kind of care in a patient-centered way. Models for approaches to interdisciplinary care are presented and issues in forming and sustaining an interdisciplinary care teams are discussed. This module also offers practical guidance for building a referral network of providers for specialty care, and guidance for leveraging existing resources to support integration of care across a range of treatment settings.
This module is part of The ASAM Pain & Addiction Essentials, a series of 6 online modules (rolled out throughout 2021) that cover the foundations of pain and addiction including the science, stigma, screening and assessment, treatment, and interdisciplinary approaches. All modules can be taken together as a full 6-hour course or can be taken individually to fill learner knowledge gaps in pain and addiction topics.
The target audience for this module includes: primary care physicians, fellows in training and residents, providers who are new to addiction medicine or are early in their career and other members of the care team who are looking for introductory topics on pain and addiction.
This session addresses the following ACGME Competencies: Medical Knowledge, Systems Based Practice.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, learners will be able to:
Identify the benefits of collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of providers and allied health professionals in the assessment and treatment of pain and addiction.
Compare models of effective interdisciplinary care teams, noting factors that support integration, communication, and cooperation between team members and the delivery of multimodal, patient-centered care.
Describe potential barriers to forming and sustaining an interdisciplinary teams that may arise across treatment settings, particularly rural and under resourced settings, and ways these challenges can be met, leveraging existing tools and resources.
Discuss when and how to make referrals to providers and allied health professionals as part of longitudinal care management to meet the complex needs of patients with chronic pain and addiction.
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$39
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$19
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Open Registration: 08/09/2024 - 08/09/2027
Close Access: 09/09/2027
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Donald R. Teater
MD, MPH
Don Teater MD, MPH is a family physician who has worked in western North Carolina for the past 30 years. Since 2004 he has focused on the intersection of pain, opioids, and addiction. Don was the lead facilitator for the expert panel during the development of the CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.
From 2013-2016, Don was the Medical Advisor at the National Safety Council leading their effort to reduce opioid abuse and overdose in the community and in the workplace. He continues to work with federal and state government organizations, medical organizations and nonprofits in addressing many aspects of the opioid epidemic.
While working on the public health aspects of the opioid epidemic, he sees patients one day a week treating opioid use disorder and chronic pain in Waynesville, NC by telemedicine. He also works one week each month as a pain and addiction specialist seeing Alaska Native patients with the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) in Juneau, AK.
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Olivia Sinaiko
MA
Olivia Sinaiko, MA, is a behavioral health clinician with the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) in Juneau, AK. Olivia takes a trauma-informed, client-centered, and social justice-oriented approach to patient care, working with patients of all ages on a broad range of issues. A key focus in her work with clients is Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a form of therapy designed for patients with chronic pain. She offers a six-week pain neuroscience education program for people with chronic pain, as well as individual PRT therapy. Olivia graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, with a B.A. in Philosophy. After earning a law degree from Yale Law School and completing a clerkship with the Alaska Supreme Court, she realized her true calling in supporting individuals, families, and communities as they navigate difficult transitions. Olivia returned to school for a master’s degree in counseling psychology from The Wright Institute.
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Kari DeFreest
OTD, OTR/L, CHT
Kari is an occupational therapist and Pain Program manager with the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). Kari is passionate about empowering patients and providers through education and, in addition to her clinical practice, works with occupational therapy education programs and students to promote excellence in the next generation of therapy providers. Kari has clinical interests in rural health care, chronic pain management and hand therapy. Kari earned a bachelor of science degree in occupational therapy at Loma Linda University and doctorate in occupational therapy with a certificate in executive leadership at the University of St Augustine for Health Sciences.
Kari is passionate about bringing exceptional care to the residents of rural and remote communities. Kari has 30 years of clinical experience predominantly in rural health care settings as well as regulatory enforcement with the California Department of Public Health, Licensing and Certification Division.
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Gregory Rudolf
MD, DFASAM
Dr Rudolf is a physician board certified in addiction medicine, pain medicine, medical acupuncture and family medicine practicing at Swedish Pain Services in Seattle. The clinic integrates multidisciplinary pain care approaches in an effort to optimize patient functional outcomes and self-efficacy. He has also worked extensively in inpatient substance use disorder treatment settings and has published on the topic of opioid withdrawal management. He is the current Chair of the ASAM Pain and Addiction Committee, the immediate past president of the Washington Society of Addiction Medicine, and is a clinical associate professor at University of Washington.
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Aram Mardian, MD
Aram Mardian, M.D. is a clinical associate professor of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix is a board-certified family physician and holds additional certifications in addiction medicine, pain medicine, and medical acupuncture. He is the founding Chief of the Chronic Pain Wellness Center at the Phoenix VA Health Care System, which models interprofessional whole-person care for patients with pain and opioid use disorder. Dr. Mardian serves as Co-Chair for the Arizona Pain and Addiction Curriculum Workgroup.
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Accreditation & Credits
Joint Accreditation Statement
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.
Credits Available
Physicians: 0.5 Credit(s)
Nurses & NPs: 0.5 Nursing Contact Hour(s)
Pharmacology Hour(s): 0 Hour(s)
PAs: 0.5 Credit(s)
Pharmacists: 0.5 Credit(s)
Certified Counselors: NBCC Contact Hours Not offered
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.
ABA MOCA 2.0®*: 0.5 Lifelong Learning | 0.5 Patient Safety
ABIM MOC Points: 0.5 Medical Knowledge | 0.5 Patient Safety
ABP MOC: 0.5 Lifelong Learning & Self-Assessment
ABS Continuing Certification: 0.5 Self-Assessment
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-20-330-1224.
Disclosure Information
In accordance with the disclosure policies of ASAM and Joint Accreditation, the effort is made to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all accredited continuing education activities. These policies include identifying and mitigating all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those involved in the creation and dissemination of accredited continuing education.
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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.
MOCA 2.0® is a trademark of the American board of Anesthesiology®.
This activity contributes to the patient safety 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.
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