Teaching pain psychology and neuropsychology: what do medical trainees want to learn?
Teaching pain psychology and neuropsychology: what do medical trainees want to learn?

Summary/Abstract: Pain psychology and neuropsychology education helps medical trainees learn how to better treat pain. There is no existing standard education curriculum for pain psychology and neuropsychology medical education. This makes it challenging for educators to teach the most clinically relevant topics to medical trainees. To take the first step in advancing our understanding of high-yield education topics for medical trainees, this article reports on the author’s view of high yield education topics to teach as a result of two focus groups and teaching experience feedback, aimed at identifying clinically relevant education topics. The focus groups and feedback led to the development of two lists: trainee-instructor generated topics and trainee-generated topics. Trainees believe that these topics represent the most need-to-know information for their day-to-day clinical practice. The implementation of high-yield topics appeared to enhance class engagement and participation. Educators may consider implementing focus groups and the two lists of topics as a starting point to develop pain psychology and neuropsychology education curriculum for medical trainees.

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