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Urology Grand Rounds

Medical Grand Rounds
Provided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and Department of Medicine


Speakers: Michael Kopf, MD Sarah Loschiavo, APRN
Assistant Professor of Medicine Nurse Practitioner
Hematology-Oncology Palliative Care
Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center UCONN Health
UCONN Health

Title: Crash Course in Opiate Conversion Calculations and Pain Management
(2nd of 3 sessions for MOC – attendance at all 3 required for MOC)

Date: March 21, 2019

Time: 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Location: Henry Low Learning Center
UConn Health
Target Audience:
The Department of Medicine faculty, housestaff and students, though many topics will be of interest to housestaff, students and other faculty
members within the University of CT Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine.

Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):

1. Discuss the opioid equianalgesic ratios applicable to clinical practice.
2. Explain how to be able to convert between opioids frequently encountered in management of pain.
3. Develop competence in completing a basic pain assessment.

Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ABIM MOC Statement: Successful completion of ALL three designated CME activities (attached event is only one of three separate sessions), which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

Neither the activity director, planning committee members, nor the speakers, Michael Kopf, MD and Sarah Loschiavo, APRN have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.

Michael Kopf , MD and Sarah Loschiavo, APRN will not be discussing the use of any of

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