Conscious Physicians Psychedelics Academy
Our patients are already asking. Will we have the answers?
Our patients are already asking. Will we have the answers?
Somewhere in New Mexico today, a veteran with PTSD, a mother who has tried every antidepressant, and a patient facing the end of life are asking their clinician about psilocybin. Too often they get a shrug, a warning, or silence, and then they look for answers on their own. Are we ok with that?
You can be the clinician who knows.
Psychedelic medicine is moving faster than medical education:
A 2026 federal executive order prioritized psychedelic treatments, and the first psilocybin drug application is now before the FDA.
New Mexico is building its own Medical Psilocybin Program.
A Johns Hopkins–led survey of 879 healthcare professionals found high interest but low knowledge, and named the lack of trained providers as the top concern.
CPPA closes that gap: an educational platform created by doctors, for healthcare professionals.
Our self-paced, 8+ hour Certifying Clinician course for New Mexico clinicians is built to align with the Department of Health’s proposed rules and is approved by the UNM School of Medicine for 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. You’ll learn the most essential best practices on medical clearance, drug interactions, and how to guide patients with confidence, backed by a community of New Mexico colleagues.
This course is not approved, endorsed, or certified by the New Mexico Department of Health, and does not grant certification. The state’s rules are not yet final. The Department has not yet finalized the training requirements, approved training pathways, or required topics for Certifying Clinicians, and the final rules may change. If they add required topics, self-paced enrollees receive new modules free.
Who this course is for
Who this course is for
This program is only for New Mexico licensed clinicians with a controlled substance number, who will serve as certifying clinicians under the Medical Psilocybin Act (SB 219).
You are eligible if you:
- Hold an active New Mexico license as an MD, DO, ND, NP, or PA
- Hold an active New Mexico controlled substance registration number
- Will be evaluating patients seeking psilocybin-assisted treatment under New Mexico law
This is not a facilitator training program. Certifying clinicians do not provide psilocybin-assisted sessions. If you are seeking facilitator certification, this course will not meet that requirement.
What is the Certifying Clinician role?
What is the Certifying Clinician role?
Educate the patient
On Psilocybin Assisted Treatment.
Confirm the qualifying diagnosis
Establish and document that the patient meets a qualifying condition.
Complete medication reconciliation
Identify interactions, contraindications, and tapering considerations before referral.
Determine medical clearance and readiness
Assess medical, psychiatric, and safety risk factors.
Refer appropriately
Determine whether the patient is ready to be referred to a state-certified facilitator, a psychiatrist, a therapist, etc.
Document and report
Meet confidentiality obligations under 42 CFR Part 2 and state research and data collection requirements.
This course prepares you to do each of these with confidence and proper documentation.
The 8+ Hours curriculum
The 8+ Hours curriculum
CME approved by UNM School of Medicine for 7.25 AMA CME credit hours.
Required content areas:
Psilocybin action, interactions, and pharmacology
Medicine pharmacology, metabolism, dose-response, and the interaction profile that matters most in practice: SSRIs/SNRIs, MAOIs, lithium, antipsychotics, and others.
Overview of certifying clinician responsibilities
Scope, boundaries, documentation, and where your role ends and the facilitator's begins.
42 CFR Part 2
Substance use disorder record confidentiality, consent, and disclosure rules applied to real psilocybin charting scenarios.
Diagnosis of qualifying conditions
Diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, and documentation standards for the conditions qualifying under the Act.
Determining medical clearance for psilocybin therapy
Cardiac, neurologic, and psychiatric screening; absolute versus relative contraindications; how to document a clearance or referral decision.
Psychedelic emergencies and urgencies, and medical monitoring
Spiritual emergency, holding space, psychiatric urgency and medication management, and when to escalate.
Research and data collection requirements
Documentation on what the state expects you to capture and report, and how to build it into your workflow.
Competency evaluation
A post-course assessment demonstrating competency across all content areas above. You have one attempt to pass in order to receive the CME credits.
What we add beyond the requirement
What we add beyond the requirement
Conscious Life Practice tools
Practical clinician-facing frameworks for presence, self-regulation, while holding difficult conversations with patients in an emotionally loaded pathway.
Case-based learning
Real-world screening and clearance cases, including the ambiguous ones.
Expert interviews with two psychiatrists
Candid conversations on psychiatric risk stratification, medication tapering, and past trauma and challenging experiences, and diagnostic evaluation tools.
Journeys Documentary
Understanding Psilocybin Assisted Treatment through 21 expert interviews and real patient interviews & stories. At no additional cost to you.
Continuing medical education
Continuing medical education
CME approved by UNM School of Medicine for 7.25 AMA CME credit hours.
You don't finish alone: the CPPA Clinician Community
You don't finish alone: the CPPA Clinician Community
Certification is the beginning. New Mexico's medical psilocybin program is new, the rules will evolve, and the clinical questions will be genuinely hard.
The CPPA Clinician Community is where certifying clinicians work through them together.
Your membership includes:
- De-identified case consultation between certifying clinicians
- Policy and regulatory updates as the Department of Health rules evolve
- Case studies drawn from real New Mexico practice
- Future continuing education credits and modules as they are released
- Member discounts on future CPPA events and trainings
- A peer network of New Mexico clinicians doing this work
- Free access to Journeys Documentary once you buy the course.
Included free for your first month with course enrollment. After that, $49.97/month — cancel anytime.
What you get
What you get
- 8+ hours of focused, self-paced training you can complete on your schedule, built to align with the Department of Health's proposed Certifying Clinician rules (September 2026)
- 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, approved by the UNM School of Medicine
- Free updates if the final state rules require additional topics
- Certificate of completion and CME documentation once you pass the course evaluation
- Membership in the CPPA clinician community, which is the heart of this course. You'll find peer support, case consultation, referral sources, and real-time updates as New Mexico's rules are finalized.
- Tuition: $1,200
Certifying Clinician Course
$1,200
8+ didactic hours · CME approved by UNM School of Medicine for 7.25 AMA CME credit hours · Self-paced online
Certificate of completion documenting the eight required content areas, for use with your certification application.
Certifying Clinician Course
$1,200
8+ didactic hours · CME approved by UNM School of Medicine for 7.25 AMA CME credit hours · Self-paced online
Certificate of completion documenting the eight required content areas, for use with your certification application.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
🌿 Heal the Clinician. Heal the Community.
New Mexico's patients are already asking. Be ready to answer.
New Mexico's patients are already asking. Be ready to answer.
Complete your eight required didactic hours, demonstrate competency, and join the clinicians building this standard of care in New Mexico.
$1,200 • 8+ didactic hours • CME approved by UNM School of Medicine for 7.25 AMA CME credit hours • Self-paced online
Learn from a clinician who helped shape the law
The course was created by Dr. Lida Fatemi, DO, MPH. She is a hospice and palliative care physician, Associate Professor at the UNM School of Medicine, legislative advisor on New Mexico's Medical Psilocybin Act (SB219), and founder of the Conscious Physicians Psychedelics Academy. She is actively involved in the Department of Health's rulemaking process and follows every development closely, so you don't have to.
Important: This course is not state-approved.
This course is not approved, endorsed, or certified by the New Mexico Department of Health. The Department has not yet finalized the training requirements, approved training pathways, or required topics for Certifying Clinicians, and the final rules may change. If additional topics are required, CPPA will provide new modules free of charge to everyone enrolled in the self-paced course. Completing this course does not grant certification. Only the New Mexico Department of Health issues certification, and each clinician is responsible for meeting all final state requirements.
Conscious Physicians Psychedelics Academy · Albuquerque, New Mexico
This course provides education toward the didactic requirements described in 7.35.3.18 NMAC. Certification decisions are made solely by the New Mexico Department of Health. Nothing in this program constitutes legal advice or a guarantee of certification from the state.
This program is educational in nature and does not provide training in psychedelic administration or medical treatment.
At the federal level, psychedelic substances remain classified as controlled substances. There is, however, increasing federal support for psychedelic research and expanding state-level frameworks, including in New Mexico, where regulated clinical models are actively being developed.
Participants are responsible for practicing within their professional scope and applicable jurisdictional laws.