Pain Management and Opioids

This FREE 10-hour CME/CE training on the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders satisfies the new one-time, eight-hour training requirement for all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered practitioners.

The NEJM Knowledge+ Pain Management and Opioids CME/CE course provides up to 10 hours of CME in this one activity, aligns with SAMHSA’s content recommendations required by the 2022 Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act and enhances your knowledge about opioids, so you can feel more confident managing pain appropriately. This course is offered FREE to medical professionals and includes the following features:

• Curation of content into 8 topic areas for streamlined learning
• New learning resources to supplement the case-based questions
• Summary PDFs that you can download and review to keep your knowledge fresh
• New reports on each question showing how other learners answered

To claim your CME/CE credits, you must answer all 62 case-based questions. Once you have seen the completion pop-up message, you can go to the Accreditation Center within the product to download a transcript of your credits.

Pain Management an Opioids Free Online CME from NEJM Knowledge+.

Topic Breakdowns and Summaries

Case-based questions in Pain Management and Opioids are sorted into 8 topic areas, which you will be asked to review sequentially:

1. Musculoskeletal pain
2. Common non-musculoskeletal pain
3. Basics of opioid prescribing I
4. Basics of opioid prescribing II
5. Complex situations in opioid prescribing
6. Opioid pharmacology
7. Acute pain
8. Opioid use disorder

As you complete each of these key topic areas a PDF summary is available for download. Each summary provides an overview of the topic with links to tools that you can use in daily practice as well as links to related learning resources.

Learning Resource and Clinical Tools

We have received overwhelmingly positive feedback on this educational activity, as well as requests for additional information on topics that clinicians find particularly challenging, such as talking to patients about their opioid use and determining the best strategy for tapering opioid therapy. To that end, we have created a series of learning resources to supplement this activity that are available from within the module as well as through the Topic Summary PDFs.

This course covers:

FDA Opioid Analgesic REMS Education Blueprint for Health Care Providers
Involved in the Treatment and Monitoring of Patients with Pain

Over 60 case-based questions with feedback and resources

Pain Management and Opioids CME/CE increases your knowledge of:

• The latest practices for assessing and managing acute and chronic pain.
• Current guidelines in the appropriate use of opioids for pain management.
• Evidence-based strategies for recognizing and treating opioid use disorder.

Pain Management CME: The NEJM Knowledge+ Difference

Clinicians value NEJM Knowledge+ for more than earning CME. It has been proven to help them pass their board exams, engage in lifelong learning, and improve their confidence and clinical decision-making skills. The Pain Management and Opioids CME/CE module employs the cognitive science principles of all NEJM Knowledge+ programs to give you the same trusted learning outcomes.

Adaptive Learning Advantage

NEJM Knowledge+ encourages you to be a lifelong learner. Once you have successfully completed your Pain Management and Opioids CME/CE requirements, you can return to the program to refresh your knowledge around safe prescribing. Our adaptive learning algorithms adjust the questions you see based on their assessment of your understanding of the material, as well as your confidence and response time, to adjust your learning pathway in real time.

What Is Adaptive Learning?

An individualized learning experience that starts by determining a learner’s strengths and weaknesses, then uses powerful algorithms to serve information and learning exercises that address limitations and guide the learner to greater proficiency.

Opioids CME/CE: How the NEJM Knowledge+ Online Course Works

1. Complete the online registration form
2. Start answering questions anytime, anywhere you want.

Please note: You must answer all 62 case-based questions and review the corresponding feedback to claim your CME/CE credits (see table below for more detail). After completing your CME/CE requirements, you can continue to use the Pain Management and Opioids module to refresh your knowledge, as much as you want.

Obtaining Credits and Points

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Why You Should Register for Your FREE Online Pain Management and Opioids CME Course

We understand the pressures facing today’s medical professionals. You need to stay on top of a constantly growing and evolving body of medical knowledge to provide the best patient care. Our nation’s opioid epidemic makes the job even harder, requiring you to meet the needs of your patients while complying with requirements from regulatory and oversight organizations.

The NEJM Knowledge+ Pain Management and Opioids CME/CE course addresses these needs and is the most efficient way to review the current, evidence-based clinical knowledge on opioid analgesics. Completing this activity will improve your knowledge about:

• The fundamental concepts of pain management, including definitions and mechanisms of pain.
• How to assess patients in pain, while identifying risk factors for abuse and addiction.
• The range of therapeutic options for managing pain, including non-pharmacologic approaches and pharmacologic (non-opioid and opioid analgesics) therapies.
• How to integrate opioid analgesics into a pain treatment plan individualized to the needs of the patient.
• How to safely and effectively manage patients on opioid analgesics in acute and chronic pain settings, including initiating therapy, titrating, and discontinuing use of opioid analgesics.
• How to counsel patients and caregivers about the safe use of opioid analgesics, including proper storage and disposal.
• How to counsel patients and caregivers about the use of naloxone for opioid overdose.
• When referral to a pain specialist is appropriate.
• The fundamental elements of addiction medicine.
• How to identify and manage patients with opioid use disorder.

Did You Know?

NEJM Knowledge+ Pain Management and Opioids module may also help you comply with CDC safe prescribing guidelines and state-mandated CME requirements.