Program Description:
In developing rapport with chronic pain patients, it is not just what you prescribe—it’s how you do it—that builds trust.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
Activity Objectives:
Overall program objective: To improve the overall health of patients with chronic pain in disparate ethnic and racial populations.
After taking part in this educational activity, participants should be better able to:
- Evaluate the benefits and risks of traditional, complementary and alternative, and medically based emerging treatment options for chronic pain.
- Identify cultural, ethnic, and racial differences and the needs of chronic pain patients in a particular practice and devise strategies to provide individual assessments of these patients.
- Implement individually appropriate treatment regimens for patients with chronic pain, including use of effective pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies.
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Credits
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Type
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Accreditation Statement
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Designation Statement
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0.50
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AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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Albert Einstein designates this enduring educational activity for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Faculty:
PROGRAM CHAIR
Perry G. Fine, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Pain Research Center
School of Medicine
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
PROGRAM FACULTY for CASE 3
Michael G. Byas-Smith, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Director, Cancer Pain Clinic
Winship Cancer Institute
Director, Clinical Pain Research
Center for Pain Management
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
CME COURSE ADVISOR
David Myland Kaufman, MD
Montefiore Medical Center
Medical Arts Pavilion
Bronx, NY
Disclosures:
Faculty Disclosures
Perry Fine, MD, is a consultant for Archimedes Pharma, Ameritox, Cephalon, Covidien, King (Pfizer), J&J/Pricara/Ortho-McNeil, Purdue Pharma, Meda, Nuvo Research, and Mylan.
Michael Byas-Smith, MD, has nothing to disclose.
Accreditor Disclosures
David M. Kaufman, MD, has nothing to disclose.
The staff of the Center for Continuing Medical Education of Albert Einstein College of Medicine has nothing to disclose relative to this CME activity.
Publishing Staff Disclosures
Melissa Johnson, Eileen McCaffrey, and Suzanne Bujara, Haymarket Medical Education, have nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support.
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of approved and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Lilly USA, LLC, and HME do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Lilly USA, LLC, and HME. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
This program is sponsored by Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
Supported by an educational grant from Lilly USA, LLC.
Produced by Haymarket Medical Education.
Presented in collaboration with
If you have any questions relating to the accreditation of this activity, please contact Mildred Adighiuzor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University at 718-920-6674.
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Instructions:
To obtain credit, a score of 70% or better is required. This CME is offered at no cost to participants. Please proceed with the activity until you have successfully completed this program, answered all test questions, completed the posttest survey, and have received your digital copy of your credit certificate. Your online certificate will be saved on myCME.com within your Profile/Exam History, which you can then access at any time.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
WINDOWS PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
266-MHz Pentium II; Windows 98 or higher; 64 MB RAM; 800 x 600 screen resolution
set for “High Color (16-Bit)”; Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher.
MACINTOSH® SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Power Mac g3 at 300 MHz; System 8.5 or higher (excluding Mac OSX); 96 MB RAM; 20
MB minimum hard disk space available; 800 x 600 screen resolution set to “Thousands
of Colors”; Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher.