Skills Gained

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

1. Define and establish a diagnosis of opioid use disorder
2. Evaluate a patient with opioid use disorder and create a patient-centred care plan
3. Provide safe treatment of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine/naloxone, methadone, slow-release oral morphine, and injectable opioid agonist treatment
4. Write a safe and clear prescriptions for methadone, buprenorphine/naloxone, slow-release oral morphine, and injectable opioid agonist treatment
5. Safely initiate and maintain a patient on methadone, buprenorphine/naloxone, slow-release oral morphine, and injectable opioid agonist treatment
6. Engage a patient in comprehensive and continuing care
7. Provide trauma-informed care to people with opioid use disorder
8. Educate patients about harm reduction and integrate harm reduction provision into clinical care
9. Transition patients between modalities of pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorder
10. Provide opioid agonist treatment to patients in the acute care settings
11. Manage precipitated withdrawal