This site helps you identify your state licensure requirements and quickly find Advocate Health courses that support them.

It serves as a central resource for licensed professionals to meet continuing education and licensure requirements. Users can select a state to view specific requirements, while the main page features relevant courses in the CE Learning platform to support compliance, including our Licensure Courses and DEA Education Courses.

The page also supports the DEA’s one-time requirement for 8 hours of opioid and/or substance use disorder education by providing curated internal and external resources.

Our goal is to bring licensure requirements and educational resources together in one place to make compliance simpler and more accessible.

Explore the Licensure and DEA Education Courses learning resources further down the page. 

Requirements are subject to change. Each professional is responsible for verifying and meeting the requirements for their specific licensure.

Click on the state below to see licensure requirements

Alabama                       Georgia                         Illinois                     

North Carolina              South Carolina              Michigan

Wisconsin     

For a list of all state requirements click here

As of June 27, 2023 all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered practitioners need to attest to 8 hours of CME dedicated to Opioid Use Disorder and/or Substance Use Disorder. This is a one-time attestation for all new and renewal applications. Past trainings do count towards the 8-hour requirement. If you previously held an X-Wavier or are boarded certified in addiction medicine, no further education is required for the DEA. Read more about the New DEA training requirement here. 

Requirements are subject to change, and each professional is responsible for ensuring that they are meeting the requirements for their licensure.

Other Resources

Here are other resources available outside of Advocate Health to help meet the DEA education requirements:

• AMA Ed Hub: Substance Use Disorders and Addiction Education to Meet New DEA Requirements
• American College of Physicians: Pain Management Series 
• New England Journal of Medicine: Pain Management and Opioids - NEJM Knowledge 
• Pri-Med: Safe and Effective Pain Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care - AMGA

Advocate Health Supplemental Materials

The following materials can be accessed with an aah.org email:

• ED Mat Algorithm: AAH Opioid Resources - AAH MAT Algorithm Rev 2023.03.23.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)
• Pocket Guide for MAT: AAH Opioid Resources - Medication_Assistant_PocketGuide_Final.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)
• Home Induction: 
  • AAH Opioid Resources - Home Inductions Pt Instructions 4mg rev.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)
  • AAH Opioid Resources - Home Inductions Pt Instructions 8mg.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)

Opioids

• Online, recorded options:
  • Functional Neurologic Disorder - EM
  • Opioid Series - No Opioids? No Problem - EM
  • Opioid Series - Dependency Vs Opioid Use Disorder - EM
  • Opioid Series- Weaning- When to, When not to - EM
  • Overdose Data to Action: Opioid Sparing Multimodal Analgesia
  • Buprenorphine For Opioid Use Disorder Recorded Presentation
  • MG PCP Opioid Conference - Benzodiazepine Tapering recording
  • Opioid Dependence Vs Opioid Use Disorder: How to help a Patient through Withdrawal Recorded Presentation
  • Opioid Use Disorder PCP Case Conference Recorded Presentation
  • A Cry for Comfort: Optimizing Postoperative Opioid Use in the NICU Recorded Presentation | Advocate Health
  • MG Opioid Conference - Agreements and Naloxone - Waste of Time? Recorded Presentation…
  • MAR NOW: Rapid Access to Medications for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders recording
  • The Science Behind Chronic Pain: Language Providers Can Use for Patient Education and Identification of Opioid Use Recorded Presentation
  • Antidotes Are No Joke! Policy and Operational Pearls on Antidotes Recorded Session
  • Emergency Department Buprenorphine Induction recording
  • Population Health Pharmacy: A Lesser-Known Part of the One Pharmacy Mission Recorded Presentation
  • Urgent Care Skill's Experience 2026
  • MEDtalks: How to approach inheriting patients on controlled substances Recorded Presentation
  • Medication Management in Neonatal and Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): From Priming to Infusion Recorded Presentation
  • Opioid Series: Drug Screens, What's the Deal? Recording | Advocate Health

Implicit Bias

• Advocate Health Implicit Bias Awareness Training for Licensed Healthcare Professionals 2026
• Advocate Health Implicit Bias: Maternal Health, Training for Licensed Healthcare Professionals 2026 | Advocate Health

Sexual Harassment Prevention.

• Advocate Health teammates and affiliates must complete this course internally. Please visit Workday. 

Recognizing Dementia

Expected to be ready by June 2026. However, there are courses available for Nursing on HealthStream that meet the requirement: Alzheimer's Disease 20-1310140 Course Details. Case Management: the Patient with Dementia Course Details.  In order for the links to work, please be logged in to HealthStream first. 

Additional external CE opportunities: 

• Alzheimer's Disease - Free CME & CEU Courses Online | myCME
  Building Clinical Capacity for Blood-Based Biomarkers (3 credits)
  Sustaining Benefit—Maintenance Therapy (1 credit)
  Early Diagnosis with SDM (1.25 credits)
  Interactive patient simulation modules
   
• Alzheimer's Disease | Alzheimer's Disease CME Learning Center
  Updates on early‑onset Alzheimer’s
  Agitation management in AD
  Global, region‑specific diagnostic and treatment strategies
  Cognitive health practice improvement modules
   
• The Alzheimer’s Project CME Series
  Accredited for 1.75 nursing contact hours.
  Evaluation algorithms (MMSE, MOCA, SLUMS, etc.)
  Differential diagnosis
  Conducting dementia diagnosis disclosure conversations

Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse

• Illinois Mandated Reporter Training (dcfstraining.org)

Patient Safety courses:

• End User Experience & Patient Safety Recorded Session | Advocate Health
• Ensuring Safety: The Impact of ISMP Guidelines on Pharmacy Technician Practices | Advocate Health}
• Red Flag in the Med Bag: Tackling Duplicates on a Home Medication List | Advocate Health

Pharmacy Law courses:

• Caution! Hazardous Drugs Ahead: The In's and Out's of Hazardous Drug Handling | Advocate Health

Cultural Competencies

• Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in the Clinical Environment Course Recorded Presentation | Advocate Health