The High Plains Research Network (HPRN) and the Colorado Research Network (CaReNet) worked with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), local community practice coaches, and research liaisons to create a curriculum to train the entire practice team staff on how to provide a comprehensive medication assisted therapy (MAT) program for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).

The IT MATTTRs Practice Team Training curriculum contains four 1-hour modules:

• Module 1: Opioids, Receptors, Colorado, and You – Epidemiology, science and pharmacology of opioids, addiction, and medication assisted treatment
• Module 2: The Patient - Identifying, preparing, treating, and managing the patient
• Module 3: The Practice - Preparing the practice, facility, and staff to offer MAT
• Module 4: Special Populations - Offering care to special populations like adolescents and pregnant women
• Module 5: SBIRT - (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment)

The Practice Team Training will help you to identify and assess patients who are appropriate for MAT, apply knowledge of buprenorphine to manage patients with OUD, discuss psychiatric and co-morbidities associated with OUD, and help you to build a clinical team that has knowledge, skills, and resources to treat OUD.

For practices that have a MAT certified prescriber, the practice team training will equip all staff members with the expertise and tools to support a successful MAT program within a clinic.

• PTOs will receive $900 for every practice that completes the 5-session series training.
• Practices will receive $1000 upon completion of the 5-session series.

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• MATerials 
• IT MATTTRs Primary Care Practice Team Training - Module 1 v2_3.12.20
• IT MATTTRs Primary Care Practice Team Training - Module 2 v2_3.12.20
• IT MATTTRs Primary Care Practice Team Training - Module 3 pt 1 v2 3.12.20
• IT MATTTRs Primary Care Practice Team Training - Module 3 pt 2 v2 3.12.20
• IT MATTTRs Primary Care Practice Team Training - Module 4_v2_3.12.20
• Primary Care Practice Team Training - Module 5
• Behavioral Health Team Training - Modules 1
• Behavioral Health Team Training - Modules 2-3
• Behavioral Health Team Training - Modules 4-6
• TED Talk Video - Johann Hari: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong
• Video - Macklemore "Drug Dealer"
• Video - Macklemore discussing opioids with President Barack Obama
• CME Letter for Non Physicians 
• CME Letter for Physicians 

Drop In: Mock Primary Care Team Training Module 1 (Lori Jarrell, 4.9.2018)

• Blank Scope of Work
• Practice Agreement
  • Each practice must have a signed Practice Agreement in order to receive compensation.

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What is a Field Note?

• It is a way to help us understand on an ongoing basis what is going on in the practice. Open-ended comment fields give us the content that is needed to understand practices’ progress.
• Please complete a field note after each contact with the practice team, such as a meeting or conference call.
• What type of information is IT MATTTRs 2 looking for in field notes?
  • Details to help us understand ratings.
  • Practice team attitudes, reactions, and quotations.
  • Progress and challenges
  • Practice context (e.g., turnover, barriers).
  • Nuances that can’t be captured with multiple-choice questions.
  • Help us understand the practice’s story. For example:
    • This practice is highly motivated and positive with moving forward on their IT MATTTRs 2 goals. They contemplated where they currently are as a practice and where they would like to go both with the MAT training and the prescribing of buprenorphine. They were highly open to feedback and advice; wanting to make their goals actionable.
    • Discussing challenges, such as, the practice’s perception of becoming a ‘pain clinic’ by offering buprenorphine to their patients. What are their main concerns? Did everyone who attended the module share those same views? Did the discussion end on a positive note or are there still concerns?
    • What is done with this information?
      • Field notes are just one of the data sources that IT MATTTRs 2 is using to document participating practices’ experiences and progress. The information we learn from field notes will help us understand barriers and what types of services are most valuable and beneficial for practices. Overall, the information will be used to improve similar programs in the future.

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If you have completed your 5th field note, please fill out this invoice.

1. Fill in the highlighted portion
2. Email the invoice to ITMATTTRs2@ucdenver.edu