About the 34th Annual
Meeting On-Demand Recordings
The 2018 meeting theme -- Managing Acute and
High-Impact Chronic Pain Through Multidisciplinary Care -- has been woven
throughout the 2018 AAPM educational program. Sessions address a challenge
among all healthcare providers, the patients clinicians care for, and the
communities they live in: balancing the need for improving comprehensive pain
care while responding to the growing societal epidemic of prescription opioid
abuse and opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Now, amidst the current opioid
crisis and the devastation it has inflicted, is a critical time for the pain
medicine specialty to lead the way in advocating for comprehensive pain care. Patients
are in need of greater access to evidence-based pharmacologic approaches,
behavioral health interventions, interventional procedures, substance abuse
treatment, and rehabilitation-based care. To that end, the AAPM 34th Annual
Meeting was designed to provide key stakeholders—including physicians and
members of their treatment teams, payers, and researchers— with the skills and
knowledge necessary to improve the care provided to patients and to optimize
patient outcomes.
Target Audience
Clinicians treating patients in pain are invited to join leading
experts in pain medicine in viewing recordings from the AAPM 34th Annual
Meeting. The program has been designed by a multidisciplinary, multimodal
committee of experts at the forefront of pain medicine practice. Its primary
audience is physicians whose scope of practice is targeted at the
multidisciplinary practice of pain medicine, and its secondary audience of
non-physician healthcare clinicians includes nurses, nurse practitioners,
physician assistants, physical therapists, psychologists, and pharmacists who
are part of the multidisciplinary pain management team.
Learning Objectives
After watching these on-demand non-CME recordings, participants should
be better able to:
• Describe recent advances in research, clinical best practices,
patient management, practice management, and the diagnosis and treatment of
patients in pain to pain medicine clinicians.
• Assess the most up-to-date, evidence-based scientific developments
and clinical best practices in the field of pain medicine
• Review the wide range of treatment therapies available to help
patients suffering from pain and pain-related psychosocial dysfunction regain
their quality of life.
• Assess, treat, and improve outcomes for patients suffering from
multiple types of pain through the use of evidence-based,
integrative/multidisciplinary pain management strategies, and patient-centered
treatment plans.
• Improve patient safety and decrease the rate of opioid- and pain
analgesic–related adverse events.
Technical Support
For additional assistance, please contact the American Academy of Pain
Medicine, 8735 W. Higgins Road, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60631, 847-375-4731. If
you need further assistance with software requirements please contact support@blueskyelearn.com
Faculty/Planner Disclosures
& Policy
AAPM plans and implements educational activities in accordance with ACCME which
calls on accredited providers to offer educational activities that address
physicians’ real-world practice needs, whether their scope of practice is in
clinical care, research, health care administration, or other areas of
medicine. AAPM's educational programs are designed to change either physicians’
competence, by teaching them strategies for translating new knowledge into
action, or physicians’ performance (what they actually do in practice), or patient
outcomes. AAPM continually evaluates its programs’ effectiveness in achieving
these goals.
All program faculty and planners are required to disclose all financial
relationships they may have or have had within the last 12 months with
commercial interests whose products or services are related to the subject
matter of the presentation. Any real or apparent conflicts of interest are
resolved prior to the presentation. All confirmed faculty disclosure is made
available to participants prior to the activity. Faculty are also expected to
disclose this information to the audience both verbally and in print (slide
presentation) at the beginning of a presentation. Faculty members must also inform
learners if any unlabeled uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration will be discussed.
Disclosures
Disclosure information for the 34th Annual Meeting Program Committee
and Faculty can be found at http://www.painmed.org/annualmeeting/2018-faculty-disclosures/
CME
CME is not provided for the 34th Annual Meeting On-Demand
Recordings.
Copyright
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All rights reserved, including that of translation into other languages. No part of this on demand course may be shared, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright holder.