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1. Physician Well-being and Professional Fulfillment: American College of Physicians
Website with guidance and resources that foster communities of well-being for internal medicine physicians to best serve patients and optimize professional fulfillment.
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3. Organizational Evidence-Based and Promising Practices for Improving Clinician Well-Being (PDF)
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DEA-registered practitioners can use UpToDate to meet MATE Act requirements
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 enacted a new one-time, eight-hour training requirement for all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered practitioners on the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders. The training requirement Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act is in effect as of June 2023. For more information, visit the U.S. Department of Justice website.
Continuing education (CE) credits earned from reading certain UpToDate topics will meet the training requirement. Earn 0.5 credits for each eligible topic viewed. The training does not have to occur in one session. It can be cumulative across multiple sessions that equal eight hours of training. The linked document lists topics that address the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders and will meet the training requirement:
UpToDate Links to meet MATE Act Requirements
Additional Information:
Visit this UpToDate Support Knowledge Base article for information on tracking MATE Act-eligible topics.
Specific MATE-eligible topics are not automatically identified for you. You can highlight the eligible topics on the activity log and keep this documentation if needed for audit purposes.
There is a bit of nuance in how the eligible credits are earned depending on provider role. For MDs and PAs, the user must start a new search in order to accrue a credit. Users earning AMA PRA Category 1 credits must ask a new question each time they want to earn another 0.5 credits. An MD or a PA will need to conduct sixteen searches and click on a MATE Act-eligible topic to meet the requirement (0.5 credits X 16 questions researched = 8 hours). DOs are eligible to use the above process to earn AOA Category 2A credits.
It’s different for NPs because AANP CE requirements are time-based. If an NP views a topic, then clicks into another one, the meter keeps running. There’s no need to start a new search. So NPs actually have to view the content for 8 hours to meet the requirement.
New Training Requirements for DEA License Renewal (munsonhealthcare.org)