Pain Management, Pharmacology & Prescribing – 2025 Package
From opioids to medical cannabis to hypnosis, this Pain Management CME course provides you with the pain management tools and insight you need to help your patients.
CME On-Demand Courses Include
Language – English
Access On Desktop, Tablet & Mobile
2025 Package – 5 CME Credit Hours (Rx=3.50) Valid until August 15, 2027
Let’s Be Blunt: Can Cannabis and Opioids Play Nice in Pain Management? (Rx=0.75)
Let’s explore how medical cannabis and opioids can complement or challenge each other in modern pain care. We’ll examine pharmacology, efficacy, and practical strategies for integrating these therapies while ensuring patient safety and regulatory compliance.
Acute Pain Management in Ambulatory Adults & Marginalized Populations (Rx=0.75)
This session explores general principles and safety considerations for acute pain management of opioid-naïve adults. It will also review pain care for marginalized populations, and recognition and management of undertreatment and bias.
The Pain Management Playbook: Five Essential Tips for Primary Care Providers (Rx=0.50)
Learn five key strategies to master pain management in primary care. This session offers practical tips for comprehensive pain assessment, safe prescribing, prioritizing non-pharmacologic approaches, setting functional goals, and managing referrals effectively.
All About Opioids: Selection, Rotation, Tapering, and Review (Rx=1.50)
This session discusses appropriate patient selection, medication choice and dosing based on pain severity and patient comorbidities, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of pure agonist and mixed agonist-antagonist opioids. It also reviews opioid rotation, optimizing analgesia, management of side effects, risk assessments, opioid tapering, naloxone, and key patient education. Case studies will be shared.
Pain and the Power of Suggestion
Hypnosis and pain management – what does the research say, how do you communicate with direct and indirect suggestions, and placebo and nocebo influence in conversations with patients. Learn about response expectancies and practical implementation of suggestions in clinical practice for therapeutic benefit.