DO Licensing Requirements: Are required 150 hours every three years, 1 of which must be in the area of medical ethics, and a minimum of 3 must be in the area of pain and symptom management and at least 1 of the 3 must include controlled substance prescribing.
MD Licensing Requirements: Are required 150 hours every three years, a maximum 110 of which may be AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, and a minimum of 3 must be in pain and symptom management and at least 1 of the 3 must include controlled substance prescribing. In addition, one hour must be earned in medical ethics.
All MDs and DOs have a one-time requirement of training in identifying victims of human trafficking.
A physician seeking a controlled substance license, or who is licensed to prescribe or dispense controlled substances, must complete a one-time training in opioids and controlled substance awareness prior to being issued a controlled substance license.
NEW - On December 29, 2022, 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.
Beginning June 1, 2022, an applicant for licensure or registration must have completed a minimum of 2 hours of implicit bias training within the 5 years immediately preceding issuance of the license or registration. Additionally, beginning on June 1, 2022, and for every renewal thereafter, an applicant for license or registration renewal must have completed a minimum of 1 hour of implicit bias training for each year of the applicant's license or registration cycle.
The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) just revised the Public Health Code – General Rules pertaining to implicit bias training standards to allow asynchronous teleconference or webinars as acceptable modalities. They were previously prohibited.
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