Teaching headache management to medicine residents.
BACKGROUND
To evaluate the effect of teaching headache management to PG-1 medicine residents.


METHODS
Observational study using prerotation and postrotation ratings by residents of improvement in their knowledge of etiology, diagnosis, appropriate use of narcotics, and treatment of headache.


METHODS
Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.


METHODS
Twenty-two medicine residents.


RESULTS
There was small but significant improvement in the total knowledge score (P = .03) and in areas of etiology of headache (P = .02) and appropriate use of narcotics (P = .001).


CONCLUSIONS
We found there were substantial increases in residents subjective levels of understanding, history-taking and in the diagnosis and treatment of headache (P < .0001) in contrast to the objective knowledge test.
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Headache Clinic, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards; D009294:Narcotics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009922:Oregon; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology
D009294:Narcotics