For Publishers
DiscoveryMetadataPeer reviewHostingPublishing
For Researchers
JoinPublishReviewCollect
Register
Blog
About
Search
Advanced search
My ScienceOpen
Search
For Publishers
For Researchers
Blog
About
13
views
59
references
 Top references
cited by
9
    
0 reviews
 Review
0
comments
 Comment
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      124
      similar
       All similar
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Pain medicine content, teaching and assessment in medical school curricula in Australia and New Zealand

      research-article

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPMC
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Background

          The objective of pain medicine education is to provide medical students with opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and professional attitudes that will lead to their becoming safe, capable, and compassionate medical practitioners who are able to meet the healthcare needs of persons in pain. This study was undertaken to identify and describe the delivery of pain medicine education at medical schools in Australia and New Zealand.

          Method

          All 23 medical schools in Australia and New Zealand in 2016 were included in this study. A structured curriculum audit tool was used to obtain information on pain medicine curricula including content, delivery, teaching and assessment methods.

          Results

          Nineteen medical schools (83%) completed the curriculum audit. Neurophysiology, clinical assessment, analgesia use and multidimensional aspects of pain medicine were covered by most medical schools. Specific learning objectives for pain medicine were not identified by 42% of medical schools. One medical school offered a dedicated pain medicine module delivered over 1 week. Pain medicine teaching was delivered at all schools by a number of different departments throughout the curriculum. Interprofessional learning (IPL) in the context of pain medicine education was not specified by any of the medical schools. The mean time allocated for pain medicine teaching over the entire medical course was just under 20 h. The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was used by 32% of schools to assess knowledge and skills in pain medicine. 16% of schools were unsure of whether any assessment of pain medicine education took place.

          Conclusion

          This descriptive study provides important baseline information for pain medicine education at medical schools in Australia and New Zealand. Medical schools do not have well-documented or comprehensive pain curricula that are delivered and assessed using pedagogically-sound approaches considering the complexity of the topic, the prevalence and public health burden of pain.

          Electronic supplementary material

          The online version of this article (10.1186/s12909-018-1204-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

          Related collections

          Most cited references59

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: found
          • Article: not found

          The integrated curriculum in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 96.

          David Brauer, Kristi Ferguson (2015)
          The popularity of the term "integrated curriculum" has grown immensely in medical education over the last two decades, but what does this term mean and how do we go about its design, implementation, and evaluation? Definitions and application of the term vary greatly in the literature, spanning from the integration of content within a single lecture to the integration of a medical school's comprehensive curriculum. Taking into account the integrated curriculum's historic and evolving base of knowledge and theory, its support from many national medical education organizations, and the ever-increasing body of published examples, we deem it necessary to present a guide to review and promote further development of the integrated curriculum movement in medical education with an international perspective. We introduce the history and theory behind integration and provide theoretical models alongside published examples of common variations of an integrated curriculum. In addition, we identify three areas of particular need when developing an ideal integrated curriculum, leading us to propose the use of a new, clarified definition of "integrated curriculum", and offer a review of strategies to evaluate the impact of an integrated curriculum on the learner. This Guide is presented to assist educators in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a thoroughly integrated medical school curriculum.
          Article 0 comments Cited 126 times – based on 0 reviews     Review now
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: found
            • Article: not found

            Evidence-based scientific data documenting the treatment and cost-effectiveness of comprehensive pain programs for chronic nonmalignant pain.

            A Okifuji, Robert Gatchel (2006)
            Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent and costly problems in the United States today. Traditional medical treatments for it, though, have not been consistently efficacious or cost-effective. In contrast, more recent comprehensive pain programs (CPPs) have been shown to be both therapeutically efficacious and cost-effective. The present study reviews available evidence demonstrating the therapeutic efficacy and cost-effectiveness of CPPs, relative to conventional medical treatment. Searches of the chronic pain treatment literature during the past decade were conducted for this purpose, using MEDLINE and PSYCHLIT. Studies reporting treatment outcome results for patients with chronic pain were selected, and data on the major outcome variables of self-reported pain, function, healthcare utilization and cost, medication use, work factors, and insurance claims were evaluated. When available, conventional medical treatments were used as the benchmark against which CPPs were evaluated. This review clearly demonstrates that CPPs offer the most efficacious and cost-effective, evidence-based treatment for persons with chronic pain. Unfortunately, such programs are not being taken advantage of because of short-sighted cost-containment policies of third-party payers. A comprehensive review was conducted of all studies in the scientific literature reporting treatment outcomes for patients with chronic pain. This review clearly revealed that CPPs offer the most efficacious and cost-effective treatment for persons with chronic pain, relative to a host of widely used conventional medical treatment.
            Article 0 comments Cited 94 times – based on 0 reviews     Review now
              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              Practice guidelines for chronic pain management: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Chronic Pain Management and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.

              , (2010)
              Article 0 comments Cited 93 times – based on 0 reviews     Review now
                Bookmark
                All references

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Elspeth Erica Shipton: elspeth.shipton1@my.nd.edu.au
                Frank Bate: frank.bate@nd.edu.au
                Raymond Garrick: ray.garrick@nd.edu.au
                Carole Steketee: carole.steketee@nd.edu.au
                Eric John Visser: eric.visser@nd.edu.au
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMC Med Educ
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Med Educ
                Title: BMC Medical Education
                Publisher: BioMed Central (London )
                ISSN (Electronic): 1472-6920
                Publication date (Electronic): 11 May 2018
                Publication date PMC-release: 11 May 2018
                Publication date Collection: 2018
                Volume: 18
                Electronic Location Identifier: 110
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 0402 6494, GRID grid.266886.4, School of Medicine, , University of Notre Dame Australia, UNDA, ; P O Box 1225, Fremantle, WA 6160 Australia
                [2 ]ISNI 0000 0004 0402 6494, GRID grid.266886.4, School of Medicine, , University of Notre Dame Australia, UNDA, ; Sydney, Darlinghurst Campus, Darlinghurst, NSW 2000 Australia
                [3 ]ISNI 0000 0004 0402 6494, GRID grid.266886.4, The Learning and Teaching Office, , University of Notre Dame Australia, UNDA, ; P O Box 1225, Fremantle, WA 6160 Australia
                Article
                Publisher ID: 1204
                DOI: 10.1186/s12909-018-1204-4
                PMC ID: 5948674
                PubMed ID: 29751806
                SO-VID: 9b699424-d08d-4b3f-bb22-9586b95a9c7c
                Copyright © © The Author(s). 2018
                License:

                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

                History
                Date received : 1 September 2017
                Date accepted : 20 April 2018
                Categories
                Subject: Research Article
                Custom metadata
                issue-copyright-statement © The Author(s) 2018

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Education
                Keywords: pain medicine,education,curricula,medical student
                Data availability:
                ScienceOpen disciplines: Education
                Keywords: pain medicine, education, curricula, medical student

                Comments

                Comment on this article

                scite_

                Similar content124

                See all similar

                Cited by9

                See all cited by

                Most referenced authors1,316

                See all reference authors