A Blueprint of Pain Curriculum Across Prelicensure Health Sciences Programs: One NIH Pain Consortium Center of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPE) Experience

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• Personal Author:
  Ballweg R ; Danielson J ; Doorenbos AZ ; Drangsholt M ; Gordon DB ; Lindhorst T ; Loeser JD ; Palisoc J ; Spector J ; Tauben D ; Vorvick L
• Description:
  To improve U.S. pain education and promote interinstitutional and interprofessional collaborations, the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium has funded 12 sites to develop Centers of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPEs). Each site was given the tasks of development, evaluation, integration, and promotion of pain management curriculum resources, including case studies that will be shared nationally. Collaborations among schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and others were encouraged. The John D. Loeser CoEPE is unique in that it represents extensive regionalization of health science education, in this case in the region covering the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. This paper describes a blueprint of pain content and teaching methods across the University of Washington's 6 health sciences schools and provides recommendations for improvement in pain education at the prelicensure level. The Schools of Dentistry and Physician Assistant provide the highest percentage of total required curriculum hours devoted to pain compared with the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work. The findings confirm the paucity of pain content in health sciences curricula, missing International Association for the Study of Pain curriculum topics, and limited use of innovative teaching methods such as problem-based and team-based learning. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Pain Education Curriculum Curriculum Development Health Care Workers Health Sciences Medical Personnel Prelicensure Teaching Teaching Methods WWAMI
• ISSN:
  1526-5900
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; Idaho ; Montana ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Washington ; Wyoming
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055147
• Citation:
  J Pain 2013 Dec; 14(10):1533-1538
• Contact Point Address:
  Ardith Z. Doorenbos, PhD, RN, FAAN, Box 357266, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
• Email:
  doorenbo@uw.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of Pain
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:66150148a522a951ef83c0d965524dd3c9ae1d40307666efbe20f84fd649db50f15527f9b7a5eafe66bda96dd23460a65ff962053d352fb9c3e05bcc59cac4f4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217509/cdc_217509_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 465.99 KB ]