SCOPE of Pain: Safer/Competent Opioid Prescribing Education. Optimizing Pain Care. Assessing Risk and Benefits. Enhancing Communication. Participate in a variety of educational programs at no cost!

Explore SCOPE of Pain

• Core curriculum

  Uses a case-study format to cover safer management of both acute and chronic pain, plus information about identifying and managing opioid use disorder, with or without concurrent pain. Available as:

  • Online program (2-hours)
  • Podcasts (3-hours)
  • Webinars (monthly, 2.5- to 3-hours)
  • Archived webinar

• Supplemental training

  Dive deeper into Safer Opioid Prescribing content. Modules range from 30 minutes to 1.75 hours, and include the following topics:

  • How to Taper Opioids
  • Safer Post-Operative Prescribing
  • Safer Prescribing for Acute Dental Pain
  • How to Prescribe and Dispense Naloxone

• Resources

  Find links to guidelines, templates, and other resources, for yourself and your patients, including:

  • Sample Patient Provider Agreement
  • Links to American Chronic Pain Association; US Pain Foundation; updated CDC and VA Guidelines

• Micro-cases

  Brief (2-4 minutes each) audio cases, for a quick educational boost about challenges providers face every day. Topics include:

  • "My wife overdosed on her fentanyl patch!"
  • "Your staff is treating me like a drug addict!"
  • "My pain is a 20 on a 10-point scale"

• Trainer's toolkit

  Resources to help train your colleagues:

  • Videos demonstrating patient-provider communication around a variety of topics
  • Skills practice sets, with guided facilitator notes and patient, provider, and observer roles
  • Guided case discussion with facilitator guide
  • Ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations with embedded videos