CHANGE PAIN is making a stand and taking important steps towards improving the knowledge on chronic pain. We welcome you to PAIN EDUCATION!

What is PAIN EDUCATION? PAIN EDUCATION is an interactive learning platform for healthcare professionals, offering both CME courses accredited by Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes (UEMS) and additional educational resources to improve the management of chronic pain patients. These educational tools are organized into the following sections:

	eCME Courses
	Module 1: Assessing pain and physician patient communication   Module 2: Multi-modal management of chronic pain   Module 3: Mechanism-orientated pharmacological treatment of chronic pain   Module 4: Treatment of chronic back pain   Module 5: Neuropathic pain   Module 6: The chronification of pain   Module 7: Pain in the elderly   Module 8: Pain in patients with cancer

	Teaching Slides
	Teaching slides preview

	Webinar
	Webinar associated with the symposium How Mechanisms Can Guide Your Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: An Interactive Discussion. (The symposium was held in conjunction with the 14th World Congress on Pain® on 30 August 2012, in Milan, Italy).

	eLearning
	Short non-accredited presentations on pain management topics

	PAIN Compendium
	Comprehensive online textbook on pain

Where can you find the PAIN EDUCATION program? PAIN EDUCATION is an online learning platform for healthcare professionals. As an online platform, PAIN EDUCATION is:
 

•  accessible, so that you can log in from anywhere at anytime

•  self-paced and flexible, so that you can learn at your own speed

•  interactive to enhance the learning experience

 

Why PAIN EDUCATION? The CHANGE PAIN initiative has recognized a need for enhanced PAIN EDUCATION, in order to improve the management of chronic pain by educating and helping healthcare professionals to:
 

•  acknowledge the need and importance of understanding underlying pain mechanisms

•  master the latest tools for diagnosing patients who suffer from chronic pain

•  learn about most appropriate treatment(s) for chronic pain patients