Description of Activities and Scientific Focus
The Pain Education SIG aims to:
- Improve pain education for patients, the public and healthcare professionals
- Promote evidence-based educational methods and technologies that are available to deliver pain education
- Provide a forum for interprofessional debate in order to influence policy and encourage wider participation
- Stimulate, engage in, and disseminate collaborative research and innovation around pain education
- Organise meetings, seminars and workshops on pain education
We welcome SIG members to join our working groups. Please email Amelia ([email protected]) or the lead for the working group to talk about your interests and our opportunities. We have working groups on:
- Undergraduate Pain Education
- Research in Pain Education
- Patient Education (patients as educators, and educating patients)
Further information regarding the work of the SIG is available to BPS Members by clicking here.
If you are not currently a Member but would like to join the Society to access the range of Special Interest Groups, please click here. If you are a member, go to MY BPS, then UPDATE SIG DETAILS, and you can join the SIG by ticking the box next to Pain Education SIG.
