Medical Students
In 2016, Dr. Anne Marie Fras developed the second-year Duke University School of Medicine pain management education course that is 3.5 hours of lecture and problem-based learning to introduce medical students to pain management concepts, pain patient evaluation, and assessment of patients for suitability to receive opioids. Students are introduced to the concepts of problematic medication related behaviors, urine drug screen interpretation, as well as risk assessment of patients before and during opioid management.
Dr. Neil Ray is active in teaching the fourth-year Medical School Capstone Course, an important milestone prior to graduation. Dr. Lance Roy leads both the Second Year Selective in Pain Management and the Fourth Year Elective in Acute and Chronic Pain Management. Drs. Roy and Thomas Buchheit also sponsor third-year medical students for continuity clinical experience and the longitudinal care of patients. Dr. Steven Prakken routinely hosts clinicians from primary care and psychiatry for both didactic and shadowing opportunities.
Residency
Dr. Peter Yi coordinates the Duke Anesthesiology residency rotation in chronic pain. This includes a robust didactic lecture series, journal club, as well as quarterly M and M Case conferences. The residents and fellows rotating at Duke Pain Medicine experience educational opportunities in the clinical evaluation of chronic pain patients, office-based procedures and thorough participation in advanced interventional pain procedures, such as neurolytic blocks, intrathecal drug delivery and spinal cord stimulation.