T3 Fellowship - Train the Trainer
Primary care providers are responsible for the majority of pain care and opioid prescribing, but often they are inadequately trained. Training current providers to respond to the crisis of excessive opioid prescribing and inadequate pain management is a substantial workforce problem that requires urgent action.
In response to that need, the UC Davis Division of Pain Medicine created a Train-the-Trainer (T3) Primary Care Pain Management Fellowship targeting the most pressing topics related to pain management, including prescription drug abuse, responsible opioid prescribing, and substance abuse, as well as broad coverage of comprehensive pain management. This 10-month fellowship is designed for practicing clinicians and enables them to continue to work in their current practice while they receive the training, mentorship and resources needed to lead their primary care community in improving the practice of safe and effective pain management. It offers an innovative, scalable solution to respond to the education gap in pain management that, in part, fuels the opioid epidemic in the United States.
The T3 Fellowship incorporates a competency-based curriculum and a hybrid educational model of in-person and distance-based learning and direct faculty-fellow mentoring to comprehensively train primary care providers in pain care and prepare them to train others.