The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) provides training for general practitioners and nurse practitioners in medication assisted treatment for opioid dependence (MATOD).
The training qualifies participants to become authorised prescribers of methadone, and for greater than 10 buprenoprhine opioid replacement therapy patients. It is approved for continuing professional development.
The RACGP training includes face-to-face and online options. It covers harm minimisation, patient assessment, opioid pharmacotherapy, clinical assessment, and the practical management of medication options.
Successful participants can be linked with addiction medicine specialists for continual consultation to provide ongoing safe and confident prescribing.
More information is available on this RACGP webpage. If you have questions, please contact the Pharmacotherapy Area Based Network (PABN) on nwmrpharmacotherapynetwork@cohealth.org.au or 0439 436 772.
Disclaimer: This article was provided by RACGP. While every effort has been made to ensure the information is accurate, North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network does not warrant or represent the accuracy, currency and completeness of any information or material included within.
