Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Program 2017

Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Program is organized by University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and will be held during Nov 07 - 10, 2017 at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States Of America.

The target audience for this medical event is all Healthcare and Behavioral Health Professionals. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 26.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Goal:
Among clinical providers, there has been a reduced number of practitioners who actually utilize tobacco cessation best practices and guidelines when treating tobacco use. Likewise, providers believe that patients have many other resources at their disposable if they do want to quit. This is evidence showing only 60% of smokers received advice from their health care provider to quit, 30% sought help, and less than 5% received the most effective and evidence-based quitting treatment intervention: : combination medication and counseling. (Babb et al. 2017) Furthermore, many clinical providers for patients lack access to state of the art and evidence-based treatments for tobacco cessation. This program will address those issues by educating the provider through three and half day learning curriculum provided by specialists in the tobacco treatment programs at MD Anderson. The Certified Tobacco Treatment Training program will, in the long term, contribute to tobacco control efforts and in turn prevent cancer and other tobacco related conditions.

Conference Objectives are :
• Improve efficacy for treatment of nicotine addictions as part of integral care for patients, thus reducing risk of premature deaths (Knowledge, Competence and Performance)
• Improve counselors’ skills and provide additional breadth of experience in treating patient’s tobacco dependence disorders (Knowledge, Competence and Performance)
• Improve providers’ technical abilities to effectively prescribe tobacco cessation medications (Knowledge, Competence and Performance)
• Improve documentation of impact and provide additional experience in treating patients (Knowledge, Competence and Performance)
• Improve selected interventions for specific level of treatment (Knowledge, Competence and Performance)
• Improve assessment and enrollment of tobacco users into the treatment program (Knowledge, Competence and Performance)
• Increase efficacy and efficiency of programming (Knowledge, Competence and Performance)