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Teaching Pain Management in Interprofessional Medical Education: A Review of Three Portal of Geriatric Online Education Modules
Author(s) -
Madaus Stacy M.,
Lim Lionel S.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/jgs.14309
Subject(s) - medicine , geriatrics , medical education , pain management , medline , physical therapy , psychiatry , political science , law
Chronic pain is an international healthcare crisis that affects an estimated 1.5 billion individuals worldwide, but pain management is not emphasized in the medical school curriculum, and thus supplemental education is essential. The Portal of Geriatric Online Education ( POGO e) is a free repository of teaching modules for use by geriatric educators and learners. This article highlights three teaching modules available on this site: It's My Old Back Again: An Approach to Diagnosing and Managing Back Pain in the Older Adult ( POGO e ID : 21670), Computer Based Learning Workbook, Third Edition module on Pain Management ( POGO e ID : 21036), and Aging Q3 Curriculum on Pain Management of Older Adult Patients ( POGO e ID : 21187). These modules were chosen based on their ability to address the major topics that the International Association for the Study of Pain proposes should be included in medical school curricula: mulitdimensional nature of pain, pain assessment and measurement, management of pain, and clinical conditions resulting in pain in older adults. They were also selected for their ability to be adapted for interprofessional education and how well they integrate basic science and clinical principles.