Michigan CME Requirements and CME Courses

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Topics covered by Intensive Update in Pain Management include: Spinal Cord Stimulation, Anatomic Imaging for Pain Evaluation, Cannabinoids for Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Peripheral Nerve Stimulation, Opioid Epidemic, Lumbar Spinal Fusion, Exercise, Sodium Nitrite for Peripheral Neuropathy, 5HT Agonist for Neuropathic Pain and many more.
Upon completion of Intensive Update in Pain Management, you will be able to:
Define the role of DRG stimulation within the spectrum of neuromodulation therapies
Identify patient selection criteria for neuromodulation therapies
Develop strategies to provide affordable pain care that addresses the economic impact of health care reform
Recognize pain conditions and symptoms that would trigger patient referral for surgical treatment
Summarize the role of rheumatologic conditions in chronic pain development and treatment
List the technical skills needed to perform interventional pain procedures
Use multidisciplinary and multimodal pain treatments to treat chronic pain conditions
Apply CDC guidelines to chronic opioid treatment to improve safety and reduce adverse effects associated with their use.

Target Audience: Practitioners and healthcare professionals who seek to learn the latest developments in pain medicine, including anesthesia providers, interventional pain specialists, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, orthopaedic and spine surgeons, neurologists, neurosurgeons, headache specialists, palliative care specialists, primary care physicians, physical therapists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and residents and fellows in training.

ScientiaCME Pain Management has three lectures:

Pain – Neuropathic
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in a Primary Care Setting: Employing Strategies for Appropriate Diagnosis and Improved Patient Outcomes (1 hr CME)
• Therapeutic Updates, Best Practices and Barriers to Care in the Prevention and Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (1 hr CME)

Pain – Somatic
• Therapeutic Updates, Best Practices, and Barriers to Care in the Treatment of Chronic Pain (1 hr CME)

In order to get credit from ScientiaCME, you must first establish a username and password.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Pain Management

BoardVitals Pain Medicine CME Self-Assessment Program
• Complete your CME requirements with the BoardVitals Pain Medicine CME online self-assessment program.
• Stay current while earning up to 45 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
• Access to more than 700 Pain Medicine review questions
• Answer questions correctly to earn CME credits. Review detailed rationales and correct mistakes as you go
• Compare your performance in each category against the national average
• Review for the ABPM and ABA exams while completing annual requirements.
• Content is written by board-certified specialists and follows both exam blueprints.
• Earn credits anytime, anywhere from your computer or smartphone

Target Audience: Pain Medicine specialists meeting CME requirements or preparing for the ABPM and ABA Pain Medicine exam.

Learn about the treatment of chronic pain and substance abuse with the BoardVitals Chronic Pain Management & Substance Abuse CME Activity. Features include:
• 100 Chronic Pain Management & Substance Abuse questions
• Detailed rationales and explanations for each answer
• Up to 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
• 12 months access
After completing the BoardVitals Chronic Pain Management & Substance Abuse CME Activity, you should be able to
• Identify the most commonly abused substances
• Recognize the most common indicators and symptoms of substance abuse and pain medicine dependency
• Describe the underlying pathophysiology of disease and basic science knowledge
• Formulate treatment for chronic pain management and substance abuse

Improving Outcomes in Chronic Pain will help you to:
Assess and measure pain and its effects on your patients;
Choose appropriate therapies for chronic pain;
Better manage common pain syndromes; and
Safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.

After viewing Updates in Migraine Headaches, you will be able to:
• Describe the prevalence of migraine symptoms and the impact that these symptoms have on efficacy of anti-migraine therapy and functional status
• Describe the sometimes variable manifestations (e.g., incidence and clinical presentation) of migraine headaches, depending on age and sex
• Recall emerging therapies for the treatment and prevention of chronic migraine headache and anticipate their place in therapy
• Support team-based learning and communication between all clinicians involved with the care of patients suffering with migraines
• Given a series of patient cases, diagnosis and treat migraine headaches by employing current treatment guidelines, using evidence-based therapy algorithms, and providing individualized approaches to care

Target Audiences:
Healthcare professionals who are: primary care physicians, neurologists, headache specialists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, OB-GYN specialists, pharmacists, and those who otherwise commonly care for or clinically encounter patients who may experience migraine headache.