| Title | Interprofessional Pain Management Course |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | UBC Health |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2008 |
| Completion | 03/23/2012 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2008/2009 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Lesley Bainbridge |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 78,609 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Lesley Bainbridge, Associate Principal, College of Health Disciplines |
| Year 1: Summary | Pain, the single most common reason patients seek health care, has wide-ranging social, economic and psychological consequences, interfering with physical functioning, mood, work, relationships, sleep, health and, quality of life. In the course of their education, many health professionals receive little or no instruction about the impact of pain or how to effectively assess and manage it; they are generally unaware of the subjective nature of; pain, the long-term consequences of unrelieved pain, or the range of approaches available to treat pain. Management of pain is one of the key areas in which interprofessional collaboration is critical for positive patient/client outcomes. The College of Health Disciplines aims to develop a course that will provide students from the 15 health and human service programs at UBC with this much needed curriculum content while encouraging effective interprofessional understanding and collaboration among students. |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2010/2011 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Lesley Bainbridge |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 42,223 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Lesley Bainbridge, Associate Principal, College of Health Disciplines |
| Year 2: Summary | With support from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund 2008/2009 cycle of funding, the College of Health Disciplines (CHD) began developing an innovative ‘Interprofessional Pain Management' course, which will become integrated into health and human service curricula offering a flexible approach to areas of common learning across professional programs as they relate to pain management. If the model is successful, it will lay the foundation for future courses in areas of common learning that can be integrated into existing curricula as required learning. With a preparatory module and the first module of the course complete and in the process of being piloted and evaluated, the CHD is seeking 2010/2011 funding to support the development of the second module in the course. |