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Virginia Physician CME Packages
These CME packages are tailored to meet your state’s current requirements.
Virginia 5 Hour Physician Package
Virginia 5 Hour Physician Package

Included Courses:
- Best Practices for Treating Pain with Opioid Analgesics 2
- Evidence-Based Guidance on Prescribing Controlled Substances 3
Mandatory Courses
These course topics are required by the state of Virginia for physician license renewal
Best Practices for Treating Pain with Opioid Analgesics
Best Practices for Treating Pain with Opioid Analgesics

About the Course:
To provide the fundamentals of acute and chronic pain management and a contextual framework for the safer prescribing of opioid analgesics that includes consideration of a full complement of non-opioid treatment options.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
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Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Management
Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Management

Target Audience
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers involved in the treatment and monitoring of patients with pain.
Course Objective
This CME learning activity is designed to increase physician knowledge and skills about guideline-recommended principles for effectively managing chronic and acute pain conditions with non-opioid pain treatments with a focus non-opioid options for four common painful conditions: osteoarthritis, low-back pain, diabetic neuropathy, and fibromyalgia.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Antibiotic Stewardship
Antibiotic Stewardship

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and other health care providers.
Course Objective:
The purpose of this course is to increase physicians knowledge and skills regarding antibiotic stewardship best practices. This activity will cover the seven core elements of a successful antibiotic stewardship program, interventions to improve the use of antibiotics, and methods used to track and measure antibiotic use and outcomes.
CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Chronic Pain
CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Chronic Pain

About the Course:
Physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals must better understand their competing responsibilities related to the prescription of opioids and be able to effectively evaluate all patients for their level of risk for misuse or abuse of opioids. This course reviews the 2016 CDC guidelines for prescribing opioids to patients with chronic non-cancer pain. An expert panel formed to create guidelines for the use of opioids in the treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain concluded that adequate patient risk assessment and risk management for opioid abuse, addiction, and diversion is essential.
Caring for LGBTQ Patients
Caring for LGBTQ Patients

About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to educate physicians with respect to recognizing and managing the unique healthcare needs of patients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ), with an understanding of linguistically and culturally appropriate approaches to care for these populations.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Compassionate Care at the End of Life
Compassionate Care at the End of Life

Target Audience
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DO), physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals who seek to improve palliative/end-of-life care for their patients.
About the Course:
Physicians and other healthcare professionals are constantly striving to improve care for patients in their final phase of life. This educational activity addresses the major dimensions of end-of-life care that clinicians are likely to encounter as they care for, and comfort, patients in their final phase of life.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Effective Management of Acute and Chronic Pain with Opioid Analgesics
Effective Management of Acute and Chronic Pain with Opioid Analgesics

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and other health care professionals involved in the management of patients with pain.
About the Course:
This CME learning activity is designed to increase physician knowledge and skills about guideline-recommended principles of pain management, the range of opioid and non-opioid analgesic treatment options, and specific strategies for minimizing opioid analgesic prescription, diversion, and abuse.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Enhancing Physician Mental Health and Resilience
Enhancing Physician Mental Health and Resilience

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and other health care providers.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to educate physicians on the prevalence of clinician stress, burnout, depression, moral injury, and suicide; as well as the challenges to clinician well-being. This activity will provide learners evidence-based multi-disciplinary strategies for reducing mental/emotional stress and dysfunction and improving clinician resilience and well-being.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Evidence-Based Guidance on Prescribing Controlled Substances
Evidence-Based Guidance on Prescribing Controlled Substances

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers involved in the treatment and monitoring of patients prescribed controlled substances.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to educate health care providers about the requirements of the Controlled Substances Act and safe prescribing practices for both opioid and non-opioid controlled substances. In addition, some of the medical conditions for which controlled substances are most commonly prescribed will be reviewed, along with recommendations for responsible management of these conditions with specific controlled substances.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices
Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers involved in the treatment and monitoring of patients.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to summarize a range of issues related to patient safety practices (PSPs) that are relevant to practicing clinicians and seeks to support a culture of safety across the healthcare continuum. Topics include issues such as addressing the opioid crisis and emerging health risks (e.g., multidrug-resistant organisms) and overall directives to “put patients first” and to reduce provider burden and burnout.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Guidance on Professional Boundaries and Sexual Misconduct
Guidance on Professional Boundaries and Sexual Misconduct

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to provide important information to help understand and maintain professional boundaries and appropriate relations with patients, including strategies for initiating and conducting sensitive examinations and the communication that is required as a component of such examinations.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
HIV/AIDS Update for Clinicians
HIV/AIDS Update for Clinicians

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DOs), physician
assistants, and nurse practitioners.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to update physicians on the current status and epidemiology of the HIV pandemic in the United States and provide information on the most recent guidelines regarding screening, testing, and managing persons living with HIV and the barriers that prevent optimal care in the primary care setting.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Hospice and Palliative Care for Healthcare Professionals
Hospice and Palliative Care for Healthcare Professionals

Course release date: 2/2022
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to provide healthcare professionals information on how to care for their dying patients. Hospice levels of care, regulations, ethical issues, and special populations are discussed.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals
Implicit Bias Implications for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to provide a historical context of race and racism and its relationship to the development of racial implicit bias. The development of implicit bias will be discussed along with research demonstrating the impact of implicit bias on the clinical encounter. Recommendations for mitigating implicit bias are offered.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Improving Access to Care for LGBTQ Patients
Improving Access to Care for LGBTQ Patients

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DO), physician assistants, and nurse practitioners.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to help improve care and health outcomes of the LGBTQ population by recognizing the existing disparities and increased health risks present in this population. This course will examine system and provider/client barriers to equality in healthcare.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Assessment, Compassionate Care
Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Assessment, Compassionate Care

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals who see patients abused in a current relationship, distressed by abuse in a prior relationship, or who suffer adult health effects that stem from witnessing IPV.
About the Course:
The purpose of this activity is to provide clinicians with strategies for screening, assessing, and responding to patients who may be victims or perpetrators of intimate partner violence. The activity also details the scope and prevalence of IPV, techniques for addressing potential barriers to care, and instruction on providing appropriate information and resources to patients when IPV is suspected.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Managing Acute Pain
Managing Acute Pain

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers involved in the treatment and monitoring of patients with pain.
About the Course:
This program is designed to improve clinician competence in appropriately managing acute pain conditions so as to effectively alleviate patient pain while simultaneously reducing opioid risks of diversion, misuse, and addiction.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Managing Alzheimer’s Disease
Managing Alzheimer’s Disease

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and other health care practitioners involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with cognitive impairments.
About the Course:
This activity helps physicians across specialties provide optimal evidence-based care for patients with cognitive impairments related to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The activity describes the definitions, differential diagnosis, and risk factors for AD and other forms of dementia, provides guidance about screening and evaluation, and summarizes current evidence for both non-pharmacological and pharmacological management of cognitive impairment and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Medical Errors and Physician Burnout
Medical Errors and Physician Burnout

Course expiration date: 6/30/2023
Target Audience
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DO) and all other health care professionals.
Course Objective
The purpose of this course is to educate physicians about the prevalence and nature of medical errors with a specific focus on the role that clinician burnout may play in the occurrence of such errors. The course will cover factors that increase risk for burnout, and factors that can mitigate or reduce that risk. The course reviews the multi-factorial nature of burnout, examining contributory causes at the level of individual physicians and at higher systems levels, such as the ways that technology can either exacerbate, or reduce, the experience of burnout and, thus, potentially impact rates of medical errors.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Opioid analgesics in the management of acute and chronic pain
Opioid analgesics in the management of acute and chronic pain

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers involved in the treatment and monitoring of patients with pain.
About the Course:
This course is designed to increase physician knowledge and skills regarding guideline-recommended principles of pain management, the range of opioid and non-opioid analgesic treatment options, and specific strategies for minimizing opioid analgesic prescription, diversion, and abuse.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological Options for Pain Management
Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological Options for Pain Management

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DO), physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals who seek to successfully manage pain.
About the Course:
This CME learning activity is designed to increase physician knowledge and skills about guideline-recommended principles for effectively managing chronic and acute pain conditions with a focus on strategies for minimizing opioid analgesic prescription, diversion, and abuse.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Pharmacology and Clinical Effects of Medical Cannabinoids
Pharmacology and Clinical Effects of Medical Cannabinoids

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DO), physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals who seek to successfully manage pain.
About the Course:
This CME learning activity is designed to increase physician knowledge and skills about guideline-recommended principles for effectively managing chronic and acute pain conditions with a focus on strategies for minimizing opioid analgesic prescription, diversion, and abuse.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Preventing Clinician Burnout
Preventing Clinician Burnout

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DO) and other health care practitioners.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to educate physicians about the prevalence of physician dissatisfaction and emotional distress, ways of measuring and quantifying that dissatisfaction and distress (e.g., using indicators such as burnout, depression, stress, anxiety, or suicidal ideation), as well as pros and cons of using these different indicators. The course will also cover factors that increase risk for burnout, and factors that can mitigate or reduce that risk. The course reviews the multi-factorial nature of burnout, examining contributory causes at the level of individual physicians, the organizations in which they work, and at higher systems levels, such as the ways that technology can either exacerbate, or reduce, the experience of burnout.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Sexual Harassment Awareness and Prevention
Sexual Harassment Awareness and Prevention

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians, physician assistants, and other health care providers in all specialties.
About the Course:
This course provides the latest information about the scope and nature of sexual harassment in healthcare and medicine. The activity will discuss strategies for mitigating and preventing sexual harassment and for intervening in witnessed sexual harassment.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
Suicide Assessment and Prevention
Suicide Assessment and Prevention

Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians (MD/DO) and other health care practitioners.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to educate physicians about the latest evidence-based practices for assessing suicide risk and managing at-risk patients with non-pharmacological and pharmacological therapies. The course includes focused learning on specific populations at high risk of suicide, including Veterans and active-duty military personnel, older adults, and physicians.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page
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Order physical book by mail: 2022 Virginia Medical Licensure Program
Order physical book by mail: 2022 Virginia Medical Licensure Program
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