PAINweek 2009 discusses need for pain and palliative care education
A Master Class taught at PAINweek 2009, a national conference for frontline practitioners, talked about the need for physicians who practice pain management to have mentors. In a pre-conference survey of several hundred physicians, nearly half (47%) responded that they hadn’t received formal training in pain and palliative care during their professional education. Sixty-four percent of respondents said that the greatest need for pain care mentoring is in office-based outpatient practices. Additionally, 46% of respondents said that they would like to request a mentor if the program became available, and 42% said they would be willing to serve as mentors.
The speakers talked about how pain mentoring is needed for primary care physicians for more effective pain management for their patients. Plans are being developed to establish a Pain Mentorship Institute that has locations in the United States and Western Europe, starting out in New York and Italy.
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