Systematic Review of Pain Medicine Content, Teaching, and Assessment in Medical School Curricula Internationally.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pain management is a major health care challenge in terms of the significant prevalence of pain and the negative consequences of poor management. Consequently, there have been international calls to improve pain medicine education for medical students. This systematic review examines the literature on pain medicine education at medical schools internationally, with a particular interest in studies that make reference to: a defined pain medicine curriculum, specific pain medicine learning objectives, dedicated pain education modules, core pain topics, medical specialties that teach pain medicine, elective study opportunities, hours allocated to teaching pain medicine during the curriculum, the status of pain medicine in the curriculum (compulsory or optional), as well a

SUBMITTER: Shipton EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6251835 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature