Train the Trainers: Primary Care Pain Management Fellowship

Although primary care providers have traditionally had limited formal training in chronic pain management, they deliver the majority of the pain care in the United States. The UC Davis Train-the-Trainer Primary Care Pain Management Fellowship provides a 10-month, multidisciplinary, evidence-based educational program for providers who wish to become expert clinicians and teachers in primary care pain management. This fellowship was designed for practicing clinicians, and provides the opportunity to continue to work in their current practice while they receive the training, mentorship and resources needed to lead their primary care community to improve the practice of safe and effective pain management. This fellowship is not an ACGME-approved fellowship and learning takes place outside of traditional work hours.
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Program highlights

• The fellowship is designed for primary-care-oriented providers and trainees (e.g. internal medicine, family medicine, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, pharmacist) who wish to receive advanced training in primary care pain management.

• The curriculum targets the most frequently encountered issues in primary care pain management issues, with a significant emphasis on addressing responsible opioid prescribing and the epidemic of prescription drug abuse.

• Fellowship participants learn how to teach the concepts, theories and practices learned to their primary care colleagues in their communities, networks and region.

• Fellowship participants are paired with faculty mentors who are experts in pain management.

Fellowship curriculum highlights

Fellows receive more than 40 hours of training in primary care pain management. At program conclusion, fellows receive a certificate of participation from the UC Davis Center for Advancing Pain Relief:

1. Two intensive weekend learning sessions in Sacramento, California (minimum 24 CME hours)
2. Bi-monthly, live, case-based videoconference sessions with a focus on integrated primary care pain management (minimum 20 CME hours)
3. Individualized monthly mentoring with a Pain Management Fellowship faculty member (10 non-CME hours)
4. Monthly office hours on selected topics in primary care pain management