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Deconstructing One Medical School's Pain Curriculum: I. Content Analysis
Ylisabyth S Bradshaw1, Neha Patel Wacks2, Alejandra Perez-Tamayo3
1Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Objective:
Inventory one medical school's first- and second-year pain-related curriculum in order to explore opportunities to teach about pain both as a social, population-based process and as a neuron-centered phenomenon.
Design:
Deconstruction of pain-related curricular content through a detailed content inventory and analysis by students and faculty.
Setting And Subjects:
University-affiliated US medical school.
Methods:
Detailed inventory and content analysis of first- and second-year curricular materials.
Results:
The inventory of pain content showed fragmentation, mostly presenting it as a symptom without an underlying framework.
Conclusion:
Analysis of one medical school's pain-related curricular materials reveals opportunities for a more unified perspective that includes pain as a widespread disease state (not merely a symptom) and to provide an emphasis in the curriculum consistent with pain's public health burden.
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