Teaching Multidisciplinary Modalities for Chronic Pain Management: Is it a Current Regional Urgency?
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Teaching Multidisciplinary Modalities for Chronic Pain Management: Is it a Current Regional Urgency?, HEMAT ALLAM, GRAHAM MCCLLELAND, ARUN BHASKAR, AHMED HASSOUNA, GHADA A. HELMY and EMAD N. ZIKRI
Abstract
Objective: The holistic approach in managing chronic pain is a novel modality introduced to clinical practice in Egypt. A multimodal course was planned to enable the edu-cation of pain physicians in a way that multidisciplinary management comes in action and application.
Methods: Medical graduates were accepted on to the programme secondary to an electronic announcement, after passing an enrollment test. An integrated educational 7 mod-ules-programme, supported by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) was run 3 days every two months.
Results: 25 physicians were recruited, 80% continued all the modules. 5 university hospitals were represented. 90% of the participants graded the course content and logistics as 9/10 (on a linear scale). 100% of the participants recommended repetition of the course.
Conclusion: Chronic pain represents a socioeconomic burden. Multidisciplinary pain service is mandatory to ensure adequate patient care. This can only be achieved continuous training of physicians.