Ten years of interfaculty pain curriculum at the University of Toronto: impact on student learning.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Delivery of interprofessional pain education for prelicensure healthcare professionals is strongly recommended to advance a workforce ready for collaborative practice and to improve the quality and outcomes of pain care.

Objectives

We report a 10-year (2009-2019) longitudinal evaluation of a 20-hour undergraduate Interfaculty Pain Curriculum (IPC) delivered to students in the Faculties of Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Medicine (also including the Departments of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physician Assistant) at the University of Toronto, Canada. The IPC follows a constructivist approach to facilitate interactive and multifaceted learning.

Methods

Evaluation methods based on the Kirkpatrick model were used to appraise changes in partici

SUBMITTER: Cioffi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8635288 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature