On-Demand CME Activities

This course provides a clear and practical overview of 42 CFR Part 2, the federal confidentiality regulation that protects Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment records. Participants will learn the purpose and scope of Part 2, how it differs from HIPAA, and what recent regulatory updates mean for clinical practice in Maine.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will:

• Describe the purpose, scope, and core protections of 42 CFR Part 2.
• Identify lawful pathways for disclosure of Part 2 information, including valid patient consent requirements and limited exceptions for disclosure without consent.
• Consider potential updates to current patient consent practices.

This self-paced online module equips healthcare professionals with clinical knowledge and tools to provide a structured pathway designed to strengthen hospital-based care for patients with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Through a blend of virtual training, expert faculty guidance, case-based learning, and course-based implementation activities, hospital teams will build practical, evidence-based workflows to strengthen patient experience, improve early identification and treatment, support safe discharge planning, and integrate MOUD into routine inpatient care. Participants will complete asynchronous course assignments designed to reinforce key concepts, support real-time practice change, and prepare each site for long-term adoption and sustainability.

Explore Trauma‑Informed Care: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration, a dynamic, on‑demand learning series designed to deepen your understanding of trauma and its impact across healthcare, education, and community settings. This six‑unit program features expert‑led sessions on topics such as early identification, emergency services, pediatric care, and family resilience. Participants will gain practical strategies to support children, families, and communities through a trauma‑informed lens. Learners can complete the series at their own pace while engaging with a wide range of real‑world perspectives and applications.

This enduring material explores the “syndemic” of substance use and hepatitis C, emphasizing how these interconnected conditions interact and amplify health risks within vulnerable populations. It highlights the relationship between substance use—particularly injection drug use—and the transmission and management of hepatitis C, underscoring the need for integrated care approaches. The course focuses on improving clinicians’ understanding of this overlapping public health challenge, including available services and strategies to address both substance use and infectious disease in a coordinated, patient-centered manner.

This enduring material provides an overview of how hospitals deliver care for patients with co‑occurring mental health and substance use disorders, with an emphasis on inpatient services and supports. It highlights multidisciplinary approaches—such as consultation‑liaison psychiatry and behavioral intervention teams—to identify, manage, and treat these conditions within the general hospital setting. The course focuses on improving clinicians’ understanding of available hospital‑based resources, care models, and strategies for delivering timely, patient‑centered, and equitable treatment. Health care providers will gain practical insights to better coordinate care and address the complex needs of patients with mental health and substance use disorders during hospitalization.

This enduring material provides an evidence-based overview of kratom and its key alkaloids, mitragynine and 7‑hydroxymitragynine (7‑OH), with a focus on their pharmacology and clinical implications. It explains how these compounds produce both stimulant and opioid‑like effects, while highlighting variability in potency across products and the growing presence of more concentrated formulations. The course also examines safety concerns, including misuse potential and emerging public health risks associated with increasingly potent derivatives such as 7‑OH, which has stronger activity at opioid receptors than mitragynine.

This self-paced online module equips health care professionals with clinical knowledge and tools to recognize, diagnose, and manage infection-associated chronic conditions. These include long COVID, chronic Lyme disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and dysautonomia. Each condition is explored in depth, with a focus on symptom management, interdisciplinary collaboration, patient-centered communication, and system-level challenges. The module addresses common clinical overlaps, stigma, and the evolving evidence base to support effective, equitable care.

This module focuses on equipping healthcare professionals with evidence-based techniques and strategies to manage and mitigate stress in their demanding work environments. By exploring stress inoculation principles, participants will learn how to build resilience, handle workplace challenges effectively, and enhance their emotional well-being. This training will provide practical tools to improve self-care, maintain focus under pressure, and prevent burnout.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will:

1. Identify the psychological and physiological impacts of stress on healthcare professionals and understand how chronic stress can affect mental health, decision-making and patient care
2. Implement stress inoculation techniques to prepare for, manage, and recover from high stress situations, ensuring long term resilience and improved professional performance
3. Develop personalized self-care strategies that can be integrated into daily routines, promoting mental and emotional well-being and reducing the risk of burnout.

This module empowers healthcare professionals to tackle burnout by integrating Quality Improvement (QI) strategies. Learn how to identify burnout’s root causes, implement data-driven interventions, and sustain a healthier, more resilient workplace. Whether you’re a leader or a frontline staff member, this training equips you with actionable tools to foster well-being and enhance team performance.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will:

1. Understand Burnout and Its Impact on Healthcare Professionals
2. Apply Quality Improvement (QI) Tools to Address Burnout
3. Evaluate and Sustain Strategies to Reduce Burnout

This module focuses on the importance of wellness for healthcare providers and offers practical strategies to reduce burnout, enhance well-being, and improve patient care. Learn how to foster a supportive environment, implement wellness initiatives, and evaluate their impact to ensure a thriving, resilient healthcare team. Whether you’re a leader or a frontline provider, this training equips you with the tools to build a culture of wellness in your healthcare setting.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will:

1. Understand the Importance of Wellness for Healthcare Providers
2. Identify and Implement Wellness Strategies for Healthcare Teams
3. Evaluate and Adapt Wellness Initiatives in Healthcare Settings

Social determinants of health (SDoH) include (but are not limited to) gender inequality, structural racism, stigma, poverty, citizenship status, education, housing, transportation, health systems and services, social safety network, food insecurity, unemployment/employment and working conditions, public safety, and social exclusion/inclusion. These SDoH accumulate and intersect to either promote the health and well-being of communities or to prevent individuals and communities from reaching health equity. Our experiences with SDoH impact implicit bias and manifest in our personal and professional lives. This course will explore how SDoH create differential impacts around substance use disorder, the opioid epidemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic, and how implicit bias can impact healthcare systems. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on examples from their own experiences and discuss not only challenges, but also ways to overcome these challenges individually, and as an organization.

Learning Objectives

This course will:

• Review and define terms related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and social determinants of health (SDoH).
• Explore data on the impact of DEI and SDoH issues on health care access, experiences, and outcomes.
• Describe how social determinants can explain disparities in substance and opioid use disorder (SUD/OUD) prevalence and the recovery continuum.
• Outline the meaning of DEI and SDoH for approaching SUD and OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery.
• Identify implicit vs. explicit bias in various settings.
• Discuss implicit bias as a contributing factor to health and healthcare disparities.
• Outline effective strategies for engaging in dialogue around implicit bias.

This module is intended to provide clinicians with information on features of the PMP. At the end of this module, users should understand the available tools in the PMP and a basic understanding of interpreting risk scores.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will better understand:

• How to use the PMP as a tool for patient safety.
• The new PMP functionalities.
• The ‘Overdose Risk Score’.

This course is intended to address the opioid-specific education requirements under Maine Public Law Chapter 21 and 488. Maine’s opioid prescribing law requires providers to limit the daily opioid dosages for chronic pain to patients. But how can providers meet this legal requirement while also limiting their patients’ distress? This online course reviews why tapering is important, common tapering scenarios, techniques for effectively and compassionately tapering opioid dosages, and office workflows around tapering.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will better understand:

• Prescribing Laws (Understanding Chapter 21 and 488).
• The principles of ethical and compassionate opioid tapering aimed at reducing unintentional overdose and suicide.
• Opioid prescribing trends in Maine, across the U.S., and internationally.
• The services offered to prescribers in Maine through the Schmidt Institute’s Controlled Substance Stewardship Program.
• The risk factors for opioid overdose and suicide.

This course is intended to address the opioid-specific education requirements under Maine Public Law Chapter 488. At the end of this course, users will have knowledge on alternative treatments that are available as options to assist with chronic pain as well as tips from patients living with chronic pain.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will better understand:

• How chronic pain differs from acute pain.
• Potential alternative treatments that exist and may aid with chronic pain.
• How to communicate with patients about alternative treatments
• Ways to reduce or eliminate pain by addressing the physical, psychological, and social components of pain.
• The perspective of a patient living with chronic pain.

This course is intended to address the opioid-specific education requirements under Maine Public Law Chapter 488. At the end of this course, users should understand the appropriate use of benzodiazepine, alternative to benzo use, and why prescribing opioids and benzodiazepines is a deadly combination.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the epidemiology of benzodiazepine and opioid related overdose deaths in Maine and the United States.
• Describe the clinical use of benzodiazepines including indications for short term use, safety and tolerability, monitoring, and risk of physiological dependency and/or development of sedative use disorder.
• Identify compassionate and safe benzodiazepine tapering durations and strategies, as well as factors that would influence taper speed and duration.
• Identify first line and alternative non-benzodiazepine treatments for insomnia, agitation, and anxiety.

This course is intended to address the opioid-specific education requirements under Maine Public Law Chapter 488. At the end of this course, users will be educated on how to use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) with adolescents to prevent future or to intervene on current substance use disorder (SUD).

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will:

• Understand that substance use disorders often begin in adolescence
• Become familiar with the standard tools used to screen for substance use disorders in adolescence
• Understand that brief intervention using motivational techniques can be effective for the adolescent population

Objectives:
-Review the management of mood disorders such as depression and anxiety when co-occurring;
-Review the management of attention deficit disorders when co-occurring;
-Review the management of trauma-related disorders when co-occurring.

Objectives:
-Learners will gain an understanding of the current opioid crisis on a national, regional and patient level.
-Learners will gain an understanding of the pharmacology, efficacy and how to choose between medications for opioid use disorder: buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone.

Objectives:

• Understand the risks for substance use and addiction for healthcare professionals.
• Review treatment recommendations for healthcare professionals with AUD/SUD
• Become aware of the function of the NH Professionals Health Program

In this module, participants will learn how to use the Eat Sleep Console Care Tool 4th ed. in the setting of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome or neonatal opioid withdrawal. The functional assessment of the infant, treatment decision-making, and parent/caregiver education are the main topic areas. The history of the development of the tool and current research on the use of the tool is also described. This module is intended as the first step in training. It is essential that the learner who is using the tool in the field also receive hands-on training in the field.

This module is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance mental health services for veterans. It focuses on identifying risk factors, implementing preventive strategies, and providing effective interventions for veterans experiencing suicidal ideation. The course emphasizes a compassionate approach, tailored to address the unique psychological challenges faced by those who have served in the military, ensuring that veterans receive the highest standard of care in their journey towards mental well-being. 

CHWs are increasingly recognized as important members of the healthcare team that can help to improve population health, enhance the patient experience, improve provider satisfaction, and contain healthcare costs. To effectively work with a CHW, providers and administrators must understand the CHW’s identify, skills, and roles; how a CHW compares with other health professionals; the ways a CHW can improve patient care; and how to successfully integrate a CHW within a care team. In this webinar, six speakers from healthcare systems, a community-based organization, and Maine’s state health department will share their collective experience and best practices with participants on what to consider when partnering with a CHW. 

This online module examines the trends and demographics for suicide in the US, the role that prescription and illicit opioids and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) have played in those trends, the risk factors for suicidality in the context of chronic pain and in OUD, and the impact of opioid de-prescribing on suicidality and on population health. A broad overview of compassionate opioid tapering is covered, as well as the concept of Complex Persistent Opioid Dependence (CPOD)

This learning module is designed to enhance your understanding of mental health awareness and support as it relates to medical professionals. This module introduces various mental health screening tools, enabling you to confidently recognize signs and symptoms. Learn effective strategies to overcome obstacles and barriers that often hinder individuals from seeking help, fostering a supportive environment and gain valuable insights into the 2022 Healthcare Provider Protection Act and its specific implications for the state of Maine.

This learning module focuses on teaching attendees’ skills around how to be respectful of gender identity in medical practice, which both improves patient experience and patient health outcomes. While transgender people have always existed, it is more recent that many trans people have been able to be out and access medical care as themselves. Because of this, many healthcare staff are unsure of how to navigate gender identity and respectfulness in medical practice. This module will give attendees the knowledge and skills to navigate this with confidence.

• Increase awareness of the essential elements of the reproductive health attestation amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
• Apply the new attestation requirements in hypothetical case scenarios.
• Develop proficiency in implementing the new attestation requirements within your professional practice.