title: Deconstructing One Medical School's Pain Curriculum: I. Content Analysis.
abstract: Inventory one medical school's first- and second-year pain-related curriculum in order to explore opportunities to teach about pain both as a social, population-based process and as a neuron-centered phenomenon.
  
  
  
  Deconstruction of pain-related curricular content through a detailed content inventory and analysis by students and faculty.
  
  
  
  University-affiliated US medical school.
  
  
  
  Detailed inventory and content analysis of first- and second-year curricular materials.
  
  
  
  The inventory of pain content showed fragmentation, mostly presenting it as a symptom without an underlying framework.
  
  
  
  Analysis of one medical school's pain-related curricular materials reveals opportunities for a more unified perspective that includes pain as a widespread disease state (not merely a symptom) and to provide an emphasis in the curriculum consistent with pain's public health burden.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Ylisabyth S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Bradshaw
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Neha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Patel Wacks
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Vermont School of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perez-Tamayo
authors.affiliation: College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, USA.
authors.forename: Brenden
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Chukwueloka
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Obionwu
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Carr
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008404:Massachusetts; D017145:Models, Educational; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009462:Neurology / Q000193:education*; D010146:Pain; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*