User's Guide to the BupPractice Program

Thank you for considering the BupPractice Program!

The purpose of the buprenorphine training program is to help educate physicians about buprenorphine treatment so that they can become waivered to prescribe buprenorphine.

Start prescribing buprenorphine for your patients with opioid addiction!

Some features of this online program include:

• 8 hour training program meets the training requirement of DATA 2000
• Up to 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (TM) available for physicians
• $199/physician (group rates available)
• All Internet-based, available 24/7
• Development solely funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and your program fee; no industry support.

Did You know?:

• Completions: We have over 3,800 total physician completions of our training program (2006-March 2013).
• High Post-training satisfaction: In a 2013 February-March post-training survey, 100% of providers (N=90) would recommend our training program to colleagues.
• High Follow-up training satisfaction: 47 providers completed a November 2012 - April 2013 followup survey (sent to users 1 month after completion of our online training program). All providers (100%) indicated on the survey they would recommend our program to a colleague.

What are recent users saying?

"This program really made me feel at ease with respect to addressing some of my insecurities about prescribing buprenorphine." Doctor in the DC area, general psychiatry (2/11/13)

"This is a really well designed program; it's clear, concise, and easy to complete. I highly recommend it!" Family Medicine Resident in Massachusetts (2/9/13)

"GREAT program and learning resource. Eye opener into the nature and magnitude of the problem." VA Beach, VA, Internal medicine/Hospitalist (2/15/13)

Click through the following user guide to see topics covered, sample pages taken directly from our program and an overview of the steps you need to complete.