{"id":37301,"date":"2016-08-25T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=37301"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:21:16","slug":"expanding-core-competencies-to-combat-opioid-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/08\/25\/expanding-core-competencies-to-combat-opioid-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Core Competencies to Combat Opioid Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUSM Physician Assistant (PA) program leadership joined Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and other health and human services leaders from throughout the Commonwealth \u00a0to announce an expansion of the reach and use of core competencies for the assessment and prevention of prescription misuse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37306\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/08\/COM-Baker-PA-Program-e1472131606638.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Warner (1st from left), Susan White (2nd from right), Oren Berkowitz (4th from right)\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37306\" height=\"462\" width=\"650\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Warner (1st from left), Susan White (2nd from right), Oren Berkowitz (4th from right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0 cross-institutional core competencies will ensure \u00a0advanced practice nurses and physician assistants educated in the Commonwealth, as well as community health center employees, receive enhanced training in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies regarding prescription drug misuse.<\/p>\n<p>At the Aug. 22 press conference PA Program Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine Mary L. Warner, MMSc, PA-C; PA Program Director of Research and Assistant Professor of Medicine Oren Berkowitz, PhD, MSPH, PA-C;\u00a0 and PA Program Director of Didatic Education and Assistant Professor of Medicine Susan White, MD, were proud to share that 100 percent of BUSM\u2019s inaugural graduating class have successfully completed BU\u2019s nationally known SCOPE of Pain program for safe and effective management of chronic pain and and have learned to administer Naloxone, a prescription medicine that blocks the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose.<\/p>\n<p>White and Berkowitz worked closely with other PA faculty in the state to spearhead the development of the competencies.\u00a0 They will be presenting this work at the national meeting of PA educators in October. \u201cThis session, which highlights a model of collaboration for other PA programs and states around opioid prescribing, was accepted as a special presentation after the final conference schedule was announced,\u201d explained Warner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physician Assistant faculty join Gov. Baker at press event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37315,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions\/37315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}