The War on Pain: Pain Management and Palliative Care Medicine
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Expiration Date: January 17, 2011
Course Material:
12 - one hour videos, test worksheet
Fee:
12-hours of CME for $150
Target Audience:
The activity is designed for primary care physicians.
Statement of Need:
California Assembly Bill 487 - California state law required California physicians to obtain a minimum of 12 hours of Category 1 continuing medical education credit in pain management. The following pain management and end-of-life courses to meet the mandated one-time 12-hour requirement. The Medical Board will accept courses or programs from an approved provider that address one or both topics. The 12 hours may be divided in any way that is relevant to the physician's specialty and practice setting. Acceptable courses may address either topic individually or both topics together.
Activity Overview:
The Office of Continuing Medical Education has created the "War on Pain" course as an outreach for California physicians. This series in pain management and end-of-life was created without any pharmaceutical support. It features UC Davis pain specialists who are faculty physicians in the field of pain and palliative medicine. The program however, is designed for primary care physicians.
Goal:
To meet the requirement for AB 487 California state law required California physicians to obtain a minimum of 12 hours of Category 1 continuing medical education credit in pain management and end-of-life. The "War on Pain" course was created to meet this requirement.
Accreditation:
Physician Credit:
The University of California, Davis Health System designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians must complete each 1.0 hour module to qualify for the hours of credit; there is no "partial credit" allowed on the one hour modules. A maximum total of 12-hours credit available for "War on Pain" series.
These modules are approved until January 17, 2011. They were reviewed and approved for 5 years from the originally released of January 17, 2006 (Please disregard original expiration date on the videos).
Educational Objectives:
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Have an awareness of other treatment modalities besides medication
- Describe the neurophysiology of pain transmission
- Evaluate the patient in pain
- Differentiate between different procedural interventions and understand when each is indicated
- Describe pharmacological techniques of pain treatment
- Identify and treat addictive behaviors
- Clarify the legal issues surrounding pain management
- Utilize new options to assess and treat the child in pain
- Determine how to treat pain and suffering in the patient with terminal illness
Disclosure Information:
As a sponsor accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the UC Davis Health System, Office of Continuing Medical Education must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all individually or jointly sponsored educational activities.
Speakers and planning committee members participating in a sponsored activity are expected to disclose to the audience any significant financial interests or other relationships with manufacturers of commercial products and/or providers of commercial services that will be discussed in their presentations.
The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent speakers with significant financial or other relationships from making presentations. Rather, disclosure allows listeners to determine if content is evidence based and free of commercial bias, and it demonstrates how speakers will resolve conflict when it exists.
All presenters must agree to provide verbal disclosure prior to presentations and a complete disclosure statement with acknowledgment of commercial support for this program.
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships:
| Name |
Commercial Relationship & Nature of Relationship |
| Scott M. Fishman, M.D. |
Consultant: Cephalon & Eli Lilly & Company
Consultant, Speaker's Bureau, Grants/Research Support: Elan Company, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Medical Affairs, Llc, Merck & Company,Inc., Pfizer Inc., Purdue Pharma, L.P.
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| Paul G. Kreis, M.D. |
Speaker's Bureau: Pfizer Inc., Organon |
No relevant financial relationships with commercial interests:
Kenneth T. Furukawa, MD
John F. MacMillan, Jr., MD
Gagan Mahajan, MD
Ben A. Rich, J.D., Ph.D.
Ingela C. Symreng, PsyD
Faculty:
Scott M. Fishman, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California, Davis
Kenneth T. Furukawa, MD
Co-Director, Inpatient Pain Service
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California, Davis
Paul G. Kreis, MD
Medical Director
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California, Davis
John F. MacMillan, Jr., MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Medical Director, UC Davis Hospice Program
Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine
Gagan Mahajan, MD
Director, Fellowship in Pain Medicine
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California, Davis
Ben A. Rich, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor and School of Medicine Alumni Association
Endowed Chair of Bioethics
UC Davis School of Medicine
Ingela C. Symreng, PsyD
Director, Pain Psychology
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California, Davis
Instructions:
To receive 12.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ in pain and palliative medicine you must:
- View all 12 modules
- Answer the evaluation questions
- Successfully complete the post-test (must pass 80% or higher)
- You will have 3 opportunities to successfully complete the test
Your statement of credit will be issued immediately upon successful completion of the test and submission of the evaluation form.
Contact Information:
Contact support@cecity.com for any payment information questions.
Contact gvwelsch@ucdavis.edu for any CME information questions.
Software Requirements:
Must have a PC.
Videos were created in Microsoft Producer for PCs use only. They do NOT play on Apple computers. Please do not purchase this series unless you have a PC to view videos. Test site: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cme/distance_education/webevents/2008-pain-cecity/2008pain-view-modules.html
PC computers - Videos were created in Microsoft Producer which supports PCs using the Windows Internet Explorer browser.
Apple computers - Microsoft Producer does not run on Apple computers. You will need to play these videos on a PC.
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