Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence (MATOD)
Digital workshop 16 Apr, 1:07 PM - 31 Dec, 2:00 PM (AEDT)
The online MATOD program is a self-paced, self-guided online program completed through gplearning.
Modules will be ensure confidence and understanding of the basic concepts of opioids before identifying ways to implement opioid agonist therapy in your practice.
Module 1: Opioids and Concepts
Module 2: Kinetics and Dynamics
Module 3: Clinical Assessment
Module 4: The Patient Arc
Module 5: Special Circumstances
Module 6: Pregnancy and Lactation
Module 7: Opioid Agonist Therapy in Victoria
Optional modules
Module 8: Nurse Practitioner Perspective
Audits
The MATOD program is a CPD Approved Activity, under the RACGP CPD Program, and is eligible for up to 21 CPD Hours when all components are completed.
Non RACGP members please register HERE
Learning outcomes
- Identify opioid toxicity in a patient requesting a prescription for opioids.
- Recognise opioid withdrawal in a patient requesting a prescription for opioids.
- Decide when opioid use disorder is present in a patient requesting a prescription of opioids.
- Compare the formulations of methadone and buprenorphine.
- Compare the dynamics of methadone and buprenorphine.
- Compare the dynamics of sublingual buprenorphine and long-acting injectable buprenorphine.
- Detail the kinetics of methadone and buprenorphine to case management.
- With consideration to polypharmacy, identify important drug-drug interactions relevant to opioid agonist therapy.
- Explore an assessment plan for any patient presenting with a suspected opioid use disorder.
- Explain the difference in the assessments of patients with suspected prescription opioid use disorder versus heroin use disorder.
- Discuss the role of testing for patients with opioid use disorder.
Compare treatment options for both acute withdrawal management and long-term opioid therapy for patients presenting with opioid use disorder.
- Explain how to manage a patient arc on methadone.
- Explain how to manage a patient arc on sublingual buprenorphine.
- Explain how to manage a patient arc on long-acting injectable buprenorphine.
- Detail how vomiting, intoxication and overdose are managed for in the context of opioid agonist therapy.
- Describe how to manage the transfer of a patent between various types of opioid agonist therapy.
- Discuss how to manage a patient with hepatorenal impairment on opioid agonist therapy.
- Discuss how to manage acute pain in the context of opioid agonist therapy.
Discuss the principles of opioid agonist therapy in each stage of pregnancy peripartum and post-partum.
- Identify the risks of opioid withdrawal during pregnancy.
- Recognise how opioid agonist therapy dosing requirements may change in pregnancy.
- Recognise the safety profile of opioid agonist therapy during breast feeding.
- Explain what is required within a treatment plan for patients with opioid use disorder.
- Understand the Victorian medicolegal context to be able to manage patients with opioid use disorder.
- Provide appropriate overdose management advice.
- Identify where to seek help, support, and advice regarding the management of patients with opioid use disorder within the Victorian context.
- Understand the context for Nurse Practitioners in the opioid agonist therapy space.
- Understand the entry points for Nurse Practitioners into the opioid agonist therapy treatment space.
- Understand the clinical practice for Nurse Practitioners within the opioid agonist therapy treatment space.