APPENDIX D
SURVEY

Goal: Analyze current accreditation, certification, licensing, and regulatory requirements for health professions education that address acute and chronic pain management and substance use disorders. Compare and contrast across the education continuum and across the health professions.

Definitions:

• Accreditation refers to the process by which a voluntary, non-governmental agency or organization appraises and grants accredited status to institutions and/or programs or services which meet predetermined structure, process, and outcome criteria.
• Certification refers to the process by which a non-governmental agency or association certifies that an individual licensed to practice a profession has met certain predetermined standards specified by that profession for specialty practice.
• Continuing professional development/continuing education (CPD/CE) refers to the process of ongoing, lifelong learning to maintain competence, licensure, and/or certification.
• Graduate refers to the period in the student role after receiving an undergraduate degree through conferral of a graduate degree, e.g., MSN, DNP, MPH, MSc, PhD, PharmD, JD, MD, DO, DDS, and DMD. Such programs may also lead to eligibility for licensure and certification.
• Licensing refers to the formal recognition by a regulatory agency or body that a person has passed all the qualifications to practice that profession in that state.
• Post-graduate refers to the period of time for post-graduate or residency/fellowship training, depending on the specific health care profession. Such programs may also lead to eligibility for licensure and certification.
• Regulation refers to the process by which an entity ensures that individuals entering (or remaining in) the health workforce have obtained and maintained the core competencies, knowledge, and skills, required for safe practice within their profession that is substantially free of commercial bias.
• Undergraduate refers to the period of time in the student role between graduation from secondary education through conferral of an undergraduate degree, such as a baccalaureate degree.

Strategy: Disseminate surveys to collect data from accrediting, certifying, licensing, and regulatory bodies across the health professions.

The Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic, convened by the National Academy of Medicine, is evaluating requirements established by accrediting, certifying, licensing, and regulatory bodies for health care professionals that address acute and chronic pain management and substance use disorders. The Action Collaborative will use these data to compare and contrast requirements across

the education continuum and across different health professions. The findings from this survey will be used to inform the NAM Action Collaborative and will only be reported in aggregate.

The time to complete this survey is estimated at 15 - 20 minutes.

1. We may need to contact you for clarification of responses.

If you agree, please provide the following:

Name:

Email:

Phone:

Position Title:

2. What is the name of your organization?
3. Please indicate your organization type (select all that apply):
   • Accrediting Body
   • Certifying Body
   • Licensing Body
   • Regulatory Body
   • Other: Write-In:
4. What level of oversight does your organization have?
   • National
   • State
   • Other:
5. What is the focus of your organization’s accreditation/certification/licensure/regulation (select all that apply)?
   • Individual person (clinician, practitioner, provider)
   • Activity (educational activity or similar)
   • Program (undergraduate, graduate, residency, or similar)
   • Organization (university, CE provider, or similar)
   • Other – Write-In:

For questions 6-11, please select what profession your organization accredits/certifies/licenses/regulates and note any specialties that may apply in the given space (check all that apply).

6. Medicine
   • MD
   • DO
7. Nursing
   • Registered Nurse (RN)
   • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
8. Pharmacy
   • Pharmacist
   • Pharmacist Technician
9. Physician Assistant
   • Physician Assistant
10. Dentistry
    • DDS
    • DMD
    • Dental Hygienist
    • Dental Assistant
11. Other, such as behavioral health. Please describe.
12. Which element(s) of the education continuum do your organization’s expectations or requirements primarily influence or impact (check all that apply)?
    • Undergraduate (student)
    • Graduate (student)
    • Post-graduate (residency/fellowship)
    • Practice (practicing health care professionals) – CPD/CE

• Practice (practicing health care professionals) – credentialing of clinical privileges
• Practice (practicing health care professionals) - licensure