PAEA 609 - Pain Management- Clinical Rotation

Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Total Hours: 160
Units: 6
This course is intended to provide students with a basic appreciation of health care delivery in the subspecialty of pain management. Pain management draws on multiple disciplines so the student should be able to use their previous medical knowledge from Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, General Surgery, etc., to understand the management of patients with acute or chronic illness that requires specialized pain control when conventional measure were not successful. Students will work in an approved Pain Management practice, and learn how to provide care for the variety of presenting conditions, with particular emphasis on diverse care.

Restrictions: MSPA program only