Virtual Brief Interventions to Prevent Opioid Overdoses

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Brief Emergency Medicine Interventions to Prevent Opioid Overdoses

Virtual Online Training

The effects of opioid use have far-reaching implications for the individual, family, workplace, community, and the health care system.

The training will introduce or refresh participants’ SBIRT skills (Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment). Participants will have the opportunity to learn, observe and practice skills through the use of experts and simulated patient actors. Participants interested in additional information will be able to access dedicated online learning opportunities.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this training participants will:

  1. Have increased confidence and ability to deal with opioid use disorder in a compassionate way

 2. Be able to differentiate between advice giving and motivational interviewing in the context of addiction

 3. Be able to recognize, intervene and refer to treatment those suffering and  in need

Choice of Four Training Dates

Please register to attend one of the sessions listed below. Registrations will be limited to one choice per person.

• March 30, 2021
• April 6, 2021
• April 8, 2021
• May 7, 2021

9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Training

12:00 - 12:30 pm - Optional Q & A

In order to receive full credit for the training, attendees will also be required to  complete an hour long, pre-work session prior to the actual virtual training.  Links to the online pre-work will be sent to registrants via email shortly before the training.

Available Credits

 3.5 continuing education hours (including pre-work)have been approved by these professions’ Boards of Examiners through the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation:  Nursing, Psychology, Allied Mental Health, and Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors.

Brief Emergency Medicine Interventions to Prevent Opioid Overdoses (including pre-work) was approved by NASW VT for 2.5 hours.

Vermont EMS providers can earn 3 hours of CEU (NCCP: psychological emergencies & individual hours) for this training, approved by the VT EMS Office.

 Who Should Attend?

This training is designed for Emergency Medicine professionals including EMS Personnel and Volunteers , Medical Doctors, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Health Care Practice Managers and Directors, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists and Parole Officers.

This training is funded by the Vermont Department of Health and designed to affect Vermont communities and open to those who live and work in Vermont.

THERE IS NO COST TO ATTEND

 These trainings are provided through a grant from the Vermont Department of Health, Division of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Programs.

About The Trainers:

 Alan Rubin, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the Larner UVM College of Medicine and is a Director of their Doctoring Skills Program and Graduate Program Director of Clinical and Translational Science.

Richard Pinckney, MD, MPH is an internist and Associate Professor at the University of Vermont where he directs the Internal Medicine Resident Clinic.  He is interested in the intersection between mental health and primary care, and loves to teach about compassion, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and evidence-based medicine. He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and the American Academy for Communication in Health Care, and has been leading SBIRT workshops since 2014.

Deborah Wachtel, DNP, MPH, APRN is an Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Deborah has extensive experience working with people who are in treatment for opioid disorder both in medicated assisted treatment at a spoke primary care practice, at her addiction medicine practice at SaVida Health, and conducting family planning research with women who are in treatment for opioid use disorder.