FAQs

Contacting your elected representatives is an important part of advocacy – they want and need to hear from you about the issues that are affecting your practice. This website allows you to enter your home address (and you can also use your work address because that matters too!) to find out all of your elected representatives.

No, all are welcome so please join us! You can find out more, like the zoom link, agenda, and meeting times, in the weekly e-newsletter.

Yes, you do not need to be a member of one to be a member of the other. 

Yes, please contact Andrew MacLean, JD, at [email protected] or 207-215-7462.

Organizations who are eligible to provide CME include those whose mission and function are: (1) providing clinical services directly to patients; or (2) the education of health care professionals; or (3) serving as fiduciary to patients, the public, or population health; and other organizations that are not otherwise ineligible.  Organizations should also have already offered at least two CME activities through Joint Providership to apply to be an Accredited CME Provider.

If your organization is deemed eligible to provide CME, they can engage in Joint Providership with the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education. Click here for more information.

Yes, at this time, the State of Maine still requires Maine licensed physicians to complete 3 hours of opioid prescribing education every two years.

Activities that can be used to satisfy the requirements of the MATE Act include:

• CME Activities already completed that were approved to offer opioid prescribing education
• Previously completed Data-Waived Trainings
• CME Activities offered by an approved provider that are designed to provide training on opioid or other substance use disorders