The University of Maryland at Baltimore will soon begin revamping the way it teaches pain management to future physicians, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
Over the next three years, the university will develop courses in assessing, diagnosing and treating pain, and avoiding abuse of prescription painkillers. The approach will be collaborative, drawing students from the medical, nursing, pharmacy and dental schools together to "pore over the same cases," said Mary Lynn McPherson, a professor and vice chair of the department of pharmacy practice and science.
Students will be taught under the revamped curriculum within one year, and the curriculum will be continually retooled to add cases and new methods of teaching, said Ms. McPherson. "Pain is such a difficult problem," she said. "It's physical and psychological and there is a lot of fear involved. It takes a village to treat a pain patient."
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Over the next three years, the university will develop courses in assessing, diagnosing and treating pain, and avoiding abuse of prescription painkillers. The approach will be collaborative, drawing students from the medical, nursing, pharmacy and dental schools together to "pore over the same cases," said Mary Lynn McPherson, a professor and vice chair of the department of pharmacy practice and science.
Students will be taught under the revamped curriculum within one year, and the curriculum will be continually retooled to add cases and new methods of teaching, said Ms. McPherson. "Pain is such a difficult problem," she said. "It's physical and psychological and there is a lot of fear involved. It takes a village to treat a pain patient."
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