What Every Physician Should Know About Drug Testing

Medical Grand Rounds

Presenter(s):

  

Theodore F. Them, MD, MS, PhD, MPH, FACOEM
Chief, Section of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Guthrie Clinic, Ltd., Sayre, PA

When:

  

Friday, November 30, 2012

Time:

  

12:00 p.m.

Where:

  

Auditorium, Patterson Education Building, Sayre, PA

Videoconferenced to: Big Flats, Corning Centerway, Corning Hospital, Ithaca, & Troy Community Hospital, Pine City and Wellsboro

(Lunch will be provided)

Description:

  

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Recall three website resources for related information
  • List the major “at-risk” groups for substance abuse
  • Accurately describe 3 valid reasons/causes for drug contracts/informed consent for patients
  • Identify at least 5 human tissue/excretion matrices for drug testing and their appropriate applications
  • Define screening vs. confirmatory analytical testing methods
  • Describe the relative pros and cons of each testing matrix/tissue
  • Avoid common pitfalls and/or wrongful dismissal of patients from a medical practice based on drug testing done under a related contract or consent
  • Initiate creation of an effective, defensible drug-testing contract/informed consent with patients
  • Demonstrate competence and confidence in interpreting drug-testing results attendant to a contract or consent

This Program is intended for:

 

Internists, Family Practitioners, Medical Specialists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Fellows, Residents, Medical and Nursing Students, and other Healthcare Professionals.

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Accreditation Statement:

  

"Guthrie Health is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians."

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Designation Statement:

 

"Guthrie Health designates this live activity for a maximum of (1.0) AMA PRA Category I Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity."

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Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Statement:

  

"Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Guthrie Health are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

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