Train Your Practice
Clinician waiver training is a great way to start the process of offering medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) in your clinic. How do you create a cohesive, supportive clinical environment where the entire practice team plays a role in treatment for OUD? The IT MATTTRsTM Practice Team Training can help.
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IT MATTTRsTM Practice Team Training
Recognizing that clinician waiver training to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) is a necessary but insufficient strategy to increase access to effective treatment in local primary care practices, the IT MATTTRsTM Practice Team Training:
- Gives everyone in your practice a common set of knowledge and language around OUD and MAT.
- Supports team-based care for effective education and care coordination.
- Applies to practices at all different stages of readiness, including practices with and without a certified prescriber.
The IT MATTTRsTM Practice Team Training will help you build a clinical team that has knowledge, skills, and resources to treat OUD. Over four 45-minute modules, the training covers information critical for your team’s understanding of OUD as a chronic condition, preparing your practice and patients for MAT, and the specific MAT stages and steps.
- Module 1: Opioids, Receptors, Colorado, and You
- Module 2: The Patient
- Module 3: The Practice
- Module 4: Special Populations
The IT MATTTRsTM Practice Team Training was developed by MAT experts, community members, and academic researchers for your entire team. Your front desk staff, medical assistants, nurses, medical records, care coordinators, clinic managers, clinicians, behavioral health providers all play a role in providing MAT.
What Practices Are Saying!
It was valuable for the whole team to hear the benefits of MAT and to understand that it is not simply substituting another drug/substance.
The most valuable was learning exactly what can help these people that need treatment the most. Also, learning how it effects someone who can really be struggling with an opioid or heroin addiction.
The training made me realize that I want to take the training for the DEA waiver and help patients with addiction at this practice.
How To Train Your Practice Team
You have several options for training your practice team. Review essential information in the four-module IT MATTTRsTM Practice Team Training with your team by reviewing the training slides linked to each module.
Module 1: Opioids, Receptors, Colorado, & You
Module 2: The Patient - Identifying, Preparing, Treating, & Managing The Patient
Module 3: The Practice - Preparing the Practice, Facility, & Staff To Offer MAT
Module 4: Special Populations - Offering Care To Special Populations Like Adolescents & Pregnant Women
More Options & Information
View recordings of the 4-module live, online training with our experienced practice facilitators to receive even more comprehensive information and step-by-step guidance to deliver MAT in your practice. Contact us at itmatttrs@cuanschutz.edu for more information.
Request an individualized Practice Team Training for your practice.
Train Your Own Trainers:
Are you part of a hospital system that has multiple practices that need training in MAT? Or are you interested in training your key personnel to sustain a practice training program on MAT for OUD at your clinic? IT MATTTRsTM offers a 12-hour (2 day) Train the Trainer Program designed to provide new, local trainers with the OUD and MAT knowledge needed to successfully deliver the Practice Team Training and practice facilitation guidelines to provide ongoing implementation support to your local primary care practices. Find out what people are saying about the IT MATTTRsTM Train the Trainer program here.
For more information, contact us at itmatttrs@cuanschutz.edu
IT MATTTRsTM Training: Evidence
In a survey of trained clinicians and clinical and administrative support staff…
- 82% said their understanding of OUD and MAT improved.
- 84% said the information was presented in ways they could clearly understand.
- 79% would recommend the training to others in their profession.
- 68% agreed or strongly agreed that they identified actions to apply information learned to their work.
All team members – clinicians, nurses, medical assistants, front desk staff – rated their ability to describe and deliver MAT significantly higher after training than before.
Learn more about how the IT MATTTRsTM Team Training was developed and its effectiveness here.
