Enroll in pain management course, earn CE credit
“I felt like I was prescribing a pill for everything, and that just didn’t feel right. I also wasn’t seeing the outcomes for people that I wanted. I wasn’t getting to the root cause or looking upstream for why these conditions exist. Some might call the upstream approach looking at social determinants of health.” That realization and her own personal health experiences led Khadija Kabani, DO, to change her patient care strategy and pursue more training in integrative and functional medicine. Today, she is guiding patients to better outcomes because she is addressing their whole health, beyond biology and medications, and she is sharing her learnings in HSC’s new online Social Determinants of Health and Pain Management course.
The Continuing Education and Assessment team at HSC’s Division of Academic Innovation developed the course to help health care professionals take an upstream approach to pain management. In this module, Dr. Kabani and her patient share their journey and insights on what it looks like to deliver care through the lens of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) This course is intended to shift the focus toward evidence-based, holistic pain management facilitated by an interprofessional health care team working together to address the numerous non-biological factors that improve patient outcomes and prevent opioid and substance misuse.
According to the National Academy of Medicine, an estimated 260 Americans lose their lives every day to drug-related overdoses. In 2021, Congress passed the Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act, which requires health care professionals who prescribe controlled substances to complete eight hours of training on the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders.
Completion of this course counts toward credits required by the MATE Act of 2021 as well as many state licensing boards and other health care organizations.
“This course is a good example of HSC’s commitment to whole health and building healthier communities,” said Sujita Adhikari, MPH, CPH, Senior Program Manager, Department of Continuing Education and Assessment, Division of Academic Innovation. “We hope it helps practitioners to discover the root cause of their patients’ pain. Asking the right questions and looking through the lens of the social determinants of health can inform a realistic treatment approach that helps patients heal while preventing substance misuse.”