Researchers at Johns Hopkins University examined curriculum of North American medical schools and found pain education is "limited, variable and often fragmentary," according to findings published in The Journal of Pain.
More than 100 U.S. and Canadian medical schools were included, and 80 percent of U.S. schools require one or more pain sessions while 92 percent Canadian schools require one or more sessions. Median hour of instruction on pain topics in Canadian schools was double that in U.S. schools. Researchers also found many topics included in the International Association for the Study of Pain core curriculum were minimally covered or not covered at all.
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