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Opioid Use and Pain Management CME Learning Modules

The Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention’s Provider Education Work Group seeks to engage and educate a broad range of health care providers across Colorado. More specifically, the goal of the work group is to increase knowledge around pain management, safe opioid prescribing, and substance use disorder treatment by using a variety of educational tools.

On this page, you will find links to numerous training modules developed by the Consortium. The modules last up to an hour, can be completed at your convenience, and are eligible for Continuing Medical Education credits.

CoBank has been a generous sponsor for this work. The State of Colorado also provided funding through the Behavioral Health Recovery Act of 2021 (SB21-137).

Training Modules

We are currently reformatting our platform and extending continuing medical education credits for some of our modules. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Clinical Pearls for Safe Opioid Prescribing
55 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Don Teater
Opioid Reduction and Discontinuation Strategies
35 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Joshua Blum
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Non-Opioid Pain Management
25 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Jonathan Clapp
Fentanyl Myths & Misconceptions
22 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Robert Valuck
Acupuncture for Pain Management
35 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Tuesday Wasserman
Behavioral Aspects of Pain
40 min • .75 credits • Instructed by Brent Van Dorsten
RETURNING SOON: PT Role in Pain Management
20 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Timothy Flynn
Fibromyalgia
20 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Jonathan Clapp
Low Back Pain
60 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Joseph H. Fillmore, MD, MBA
RETURNING SOON: Buprenorphine for Pain
25 minutes • .5 credits • Instructed by Joshua Blum
RETURNING SOON: Spine Interventional Procedures
40 minutes • .75 credits • Instructed by Scott Bainbridge
**Video temporarily unavailable.
RETURNING SOON: Pelvic Pain for the Primary Care Physician
50 min • .75 credits • Instructed by Nel Gerig
**Video temporarily unavailable.
RETURNING SOON: Sleep Disorders and Chronic Pain
46 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Scott Bainbridge
RETURNING SOON: Microdosing for Fentanyl
27 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Joshua Blum
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Introduction to Substance Use Disorder and Medication Assisted Treatment
30 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Lesley Brooks
RETURNING SOON: Perinatal Addiction Medicine Pearls and Updates
40 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Kaylin Klie
**Video temporarily unavailable.
Alcohol Use Disorder: Outpatient Management
30 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Joshua Blum
Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder
40 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Joshua Blum
Trauma, Women, and Substance Use Disorders
53 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Mita Johnson
RETURNING SOON: Anatomy of an Inpatient Addiction Consultation
27 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Dale Terasaki
Substance Involuntary Commitment Process
46 min • .75 credits • Instructed by Matt Hoag
Motivational Interviewing for Discontinuing Opioids
25 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Marla A. Corwin, Paul F. Cook
Contingency Management
28 min • .5 credits • Instructed by JK Costello
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Benzos: Appropriate Prescribing & Alternative Treatments
30 min • 0.5 credits • Instructed by Alexis Ritvo & Jeffrey Gold
Consequences of Benzodiazepine Prescribing & At Risk Populations
30 min • 0.5 credits • Instructed by Alexis Ritvo & Jeffrey Gold
Deprescribing/Tapering Benzodiazepines
53 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Alexis Ritvo & Jeffrey Gold
Benzodiazepine-Induced Neurological Dysfunction
45 min • 0.5 credits • Instructed by D Foster & Christy Huff
RETURNING SOON: Safe Prescribing of Benzodiazepines: Lessons Learned from the Opioid Epidemic
27 min • .5 credits • Instructed by Alexis Ritvo
Benzodiazepines – Boon or Blunder?
60 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Steven Wright
RETURNING SOON: Chronic Pain in Agriculture
46 min • 1 credit • Instructed by Alison Hartman
Panel Discussion on Farming and Ranching and Mental Health
46 min • NO CME • Panel Discussion
Pain Management for Dental Providers
40 min • .75 credits • Instructed by Don Teater

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Colorado Medical Society and Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention. The Colorado Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

CMS staff and planners of this activity have no relevant financial relationships with ACCME defined ineligible companies* to disclose with the following exceptions:

  • Steven Wright, MD; BioSciences Delivery, Inc. Consulting Fee, Advisory Committee Member (Benzodiazepines – Boon or Blunder?)
  • Nel Gerig, MD; Terumo Intervention System; Honoraria; Speaker, Aviation Medical Investigator; Grant Funds; contracted research (Pelvic Pain for the Primary Care Physician)

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.