title: [German Pain Association--to establish treatment of chronic pain as an obligatory subject of examination].
abstract: The German Pain Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schmerztherapie, DGS) consists of 4800 members, who are physicians of different medical specialties. Their mission is to increase the therapy of chronic pain and to establish it as a combined multidisciplinary treatment. As core requirements of the association the academic education has to be improved, chronic pain to be established as an obligatory subject on the examination for the license to practice medicine. One of the major tasks is to provide continuing medical education for physicians: More than 500 seminars are held by the 150 centers of the German Pain Association.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koczorek
mesh_terms: D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D010146:Pain; D018710:Pain Clinics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013038:Specialization