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Exploring assessment of medical students' competencies in pain medicine-A review.
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- "CARING in Action": A Knowledge Mobilization Project on Co-Creating Evidence-Based Communication Training in Chronic Pain Care for Healthcare Professionals.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2026Article
- Cornea specialists are the highest opioid prescribers at a large academic eye institute in the USA.BMJ open ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Implementing pain competencies in Canadian physiotherapy education: Challenges, barriers, and opportunities.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2025Article
- Assessment of opioid knowledge and attitudes among senior medical students in Taiwan's pain education curriculum: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- [The cross-sectional field "pain medicine" in medical studies at the University of Leipzig-What has been achieved? : An analysis of self-estimation of students before, during and 5 years after establishment of the cross-sectional field].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Article
- The Pain Medicine Curriculum Framework-structured integration of pain medicine education into the medical curriculum.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Neuropathic pain in Mali: The current situation, comprehensive hypothesis, which therapeutic strategy for Africa?eNeurologicalSci · 2021Review
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- Interprofessional Active Learning for Chronic Pain: Transforming Student Learning From Recall to Application.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentReview
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Abstract
introductionConsidering the continuing high prevalence and public health burden of pain, it is critical that medical students are equipped with competencies in the field of pain medicine. Robust assessment of student expertise is integral for effective implementation of competency-based medical education.
objectiveThe aim of this review was to describe the literature regarding methods for assessing pain medicine competencies in medical students.
methodPubMed, Medline, EMBASE, ERIC, and Google Scholar, and BEME data bases were searched for empirical studies primarily focusing on assessment of any domain of pain medicine competencies in medical students published between January 1997 and December 2016.
resultsA total of 41 studies met the inclusion criteria. Most assessments were performed for low-stakes summative purposes and did not reflect contemporary theories of assessment. Assessments were predominantly undertaken using written tests or clinical simulation methods. The most common pain medicine education topics assessed were pain pharmacology and the management of cancer and low-back pain. Most studies focussed on assessment of cognitive levels of learning as opposed to more challenging domains of demonstrating skills and attitudes or developing and implementing pain management plans.
conclusionThis review highlights the need for more robust assessment tools that effectively measure the abilities of medical students to integrate pain-related competencies into clinical practice. A Pain Medicine Assessment Framework has been developed to encourage systematic planning of pain medicine assessment at medical schools internationally and to promote continuous multidimensional assessments in a variety of clinical contexts based on well-defined pain medicine competencies.
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