Adopting Pain Management Competencies

Conict of Interest/Disclosure Summary: Dr. Herrreceived an honorarium in the amount of $1,000 forher work as an executive committee participant in the“Summit for Interprofessional Consensus on PainManagement Competencies” and for her contributionto the development of the core pain managementcompetencies. This honorarium was made possiblethrough a grant by the Mayday Fund. Mr. Koebnerreceived no support outside of his normal salary as afaculty member in the Department of Anesthesiologyand Pain Medicine at University of California, Davis,School of Medicine.Gaining interprofessional consensus on the core painmanagement competencies for all prelicensure healthprofessional education is a signicant achievement, yetthe value of this effort will be diminished if the com-petencies are not translated into practice. Production ofknowledge may be a prerequisite for change inpain management, but it is not sufcient in and of itself[1]. Adoption of the core pain management competen-cies by academic programs and professional groups isan important next step in modifying pain managementpractices to better meet the needs of people in pain. Toassure that the model pain management competenciesadvanced in this issue of