Curriculum
Safe and Effective Pain Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care - AMGA
Safe and Effective Pain Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care offers a Core Curriculum aligned with the REMS FDA Blueprint, available as a 3-part interactive series.
Completing the Core Curriculum earns learners up to 3.5 CME credits, towards meeting MATE Act requirements and providing comprehensive education on opioid analgesic safety and efficacy to fulfill regulatory and state standards.
This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies. Please see https://www.opioidanalgesicrems.com/Resources/Docs/List_of_RPC_Companies.pdf for a listing of REMS Program Companies. This activity is intended to be fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic REMS education requirements issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
By participating in the curriculum, you are opting in to allow Pri-Med to provide AMGA with participation/completion status of individual participants in addition to results, by aggregate for each AMGA Medical Organization.
For physicians interested in ABIM or ABP MOC credit, please provide your Board ID in the Dashboard section of your user account. This is found by clicking on your name (top right corner) > My Account tab > Certification, Licensure, and Memberships.
CME Information
3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, 3.50 ABIM MOC or 3.50 AANP, 2.63 AANP Pharm
Release Date: 12/1/2025
Available for credit until 10/31/2026
Topics
- Pain Management
- Controlled Substances - Prescribing
- Controlled Substances - Drug Diversion
- Controlled Substances
- Controlled Substances - PDMP
- Controlled Substances - Schedule II/III
- MATE Act
- Psychiatry & Behavioral Health - Addiction
- Psychiatry & Behavioral Health - Addiction - KY Board Approved (PA)
- Psychiatry & Behavioral Health - Substance Abuse
- Psychiatry & Behavioral Health - Substance Use Disorder
- Psychiatry & Behavioral Health - SBIRT
- Opioids
- Opioids - Abuse
- Opioids - Addiction
- Opioids - Opioid Antagonists
- Opioids - Prescribing
- Non-pharmacologic Pain Management & Implantable Devices
- Controlled Substances - KY Board Approved HB1
- Controlled Substances - KY Board Approved (PA)
- Controlled Substances - Louisiana (NP)
Learning Objectives
- Define key concepts, mechanisms, and classifications of pain to enhance clinical understanding
- Assess pain effectively while identifying risk factors for nonmedical use of opioids, substance/opioid use disorders
- Evaluate evidence-based nonpharmacologic and non-opioid approaches to pain management
- Review the role of opioids in pain management, including indications, limitations, and considerations for safe use
- Safely initiate, adjust, and discontinue opioid therapy in patients with acute or chronic pain
- Counsel patients on the safe use, storage, and disposal of opioid analgesics, including overdose reversal agents
- Create personalized pain management plans integrating both opioid and non-opioid therapies
- Diagnose and manage opioid use disorder, using evidence-based approaches, including referrals to specialists when needed
Courses
3.50 CME/CE CREDITS
3 Courses
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Faculty
Charles E. Argoff, MD, FABPM
Vice Chair, Albany Medical College, Professor of Neurology and Urology
Katherine E. Galluzzi, DO, CMD, FACOFP
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Geriatrics, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Oscar A. de Leon-Casasola, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine, Senior Vice-Chair, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo School of Medicine
Supported By
This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies
Education Partner
Miller Medical Communications, LLC