We welcome and encourage collaboration on this site. We want your thoughts about pain and palliative care pharmacy.
It is through collaboration that we learn and improve the patient experience.
Please contribute to the discussion below in the comments section.
I wanted to express my thanks to Chris and Donna for all the hard work and effort they put into this very successful summit. Also, I wanted to especially thank the Mayday Fund for their financial support!
Thank you!
Dave
Chris, I will be there and I am excited. Thanks so much for organizing this meaningful summit.
Rajan
University of Southern Nevada
I will be unable to attend the Summit, I am actually teaching a class for the Palliative Care Elective we started this year for our 3rd year pharmacy students. I am very interested in providing assistance or working with any of the groups regarding the education of pain management & palliative care to students. Since this is the first year of my course I am willing to share and discuss with others development of curriculum in this area.
in order to effectively train the students, we need to be sure we’ve ‘trained the trainer’ – there aren’t too many pharmacists involved in chronic non-malignant pain mgmt and/or palliative care (inpt and outpt settings) – would like to have more resources/workshops available and affordable – and pharmacy focused!
would like to see the students/practitioners trained or at least, better exposed to, comorbid chronic pain/addiction issues & mgmt, comorbid chronic pain and psychiatric disorders/suicide, and also a better awareness and understanding of psychosocial issues surrounding the chronic non-malignant pain and the palliative care/hospice groups of patients – and again, how to manage these issues in a clinical setting.
thanks for allowing input into this important summit!
Chris
thanks for posting on the APS-Pain Ed Sig site; I will be traveling during the summit; my only comment is the encouragement of interdisciplinary education in undergraduate programs. would also encourage “team based” learning formats—deb