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Mapping of pain curricula across health professions programs at the University of Toronto

BACKGROUND: There is a growing societal need for health professional competency in pain care. The University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain–Interfaculty Pain Curriculum (UTCSP-IPC) has been offered since 2002. Content and process have been updated annually. In addition, participating health...

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Autores principales: Murphy, Laura, Lax, Leila, Musa, Renata, Langlois, Sylvia, Kanofsky, Sharona, Hunter, Judith, Kumbhare, Dinesh, Promislow, Sara, Oskarsson, Jon, Davies, Robyn, Cockburn, Lynn, Barry, Maureen, Bjelajac Mejia, Aleksandra, Lanca, Jose, Dao, Thuan, Watt-Watson, Judy, Stevens, Bonnie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8730574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35005378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24740527.2018.1479841
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: There is a growing societal need for health professional competency in pain care. The University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain–Interfaculty Pain Curriculum (UTCSP-IPC) has been offered since 2002. Content and process have been updated annually. In addition, participating health professions programs have advanced their pain teaching. A curricular scan was needed to creatively and constructively advance the UTCSP-IPC. AIM: The aim of this study was to map curricular pain content in participating health professions programs onto the UTCSP-IPC content as a first step to further curriculum design. METHODS: UTCSP-IPC committee members and faculty representatives from six health profession programs completed a 27-item online survey in this collaborative action study. Descriptive statistics were completed in Microsoft Excel. RESULTS: The UTCSP-IPC provided an average of 43.3% (range 32%–62%) of total pain content teaching hours to participating health professions students and a range of 8% to 100% of total opioid-related teaching hours. Curricular overlaps and gaps in pain content were identified and will be used to update and inform the iterative design of the UTCSP-IPC. Ninety-three percent of participating health professions faculty indicated that the interprofessional focus on pain care in the UTCSP-IPC was important. CONCLUSION: This study highlighted the value of the UTCSP and areas of curricular refinement to ensure continued relevance in relationship to pain content within the six participating health professions programs. Mapping a coordinated approach between uniprofessional and interprofessional teaching will both meet the demands of professional competence and create greater applicability to future practice settings.