Health Professionals’ Pain Management Education – Strategy to Action Through Partnership and Engagement

Health professionals pain management education and training is underpinned by the aim of improving the care and lives of people living with pain. To attain this goal, education initiatives need to sit within a broader strategic framework; readily translate into practice in an appropriate and sustainable way; achieve set outcomes; and have positive impact within communities. Authentic ‘partnership and engagement’ with key stakeholders including people with lived experience is critical from strategy / initiative development to implementation to success. This interactive workshop aims to engage participants in exploring and applying a partnership and engagement framework to maximise the impact of their own educational initiatives / research. The workshop team will share learnings from three novel pain education initiatives in Australia and Canada: 1. Development of a national pain management education implementation strategy for health practitioners; 2. A novel empirically-derived framework to strengthen national interdisciplinary pain training, and, 3. Development and implementation of an interfaculty pain curriculum for prelicensure trainees that incorporates multistakeholder needs. Working with guided small group activities, the team will facilitate application of a partnership and engagement framework within the participant’s own interprofessional context. Worksheets with a guide and enduring record of activities, will encourage reflection and analysis.