Postgraduate Course: Pain in Medical Patients (PAMA11063)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Clinical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course type	Online Distance Learning	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	Many aspects of pain medicine are already comprehensively taught. These often relate to: acute pain related to surgery, malignancy and palliative care, non-malignant chronic pain or rheumatological/musculoskeletal pain. However, pain is a common feature of a vast range of illnesses. Despite being the commonest reason for patients to seek help, pain arising from medical conditions is often inappropriately considered less important, although often much more complex to manage than that experienced in surgical patients. This course will allow students to explore the demands of patients requiring pain management for medical conditions. This will include the management of pain in the following general and specific conditions: Cardiac and Chest Pain. Respiratory Disease Endocrine Disease (including Diabetes) Stroke/acute Neurology (non-malignant)/Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction/Trigeminal neuralgia/subarachnoid haemorrhage* Liver Disease/Gastroenterology (including gallstones) Peripheral Vascular Disease and Thromboembolic Disease Haematological Disease (Sickle Cell Disease/ Haemochromatosis/ Haemophilia/ Porphyria/ Leukaemia/Lymphoma) Genitourinary Disease Infectious Disease (e.g. malaria, tropical diseases etc.)
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None
Additional Costs	No

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Flexible
Course Start Date	03/08/2015
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 15, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 15, Online Activities 15, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Formative Assessment Hours 6, Summative Assessment Hours 10, Other Study Hours 15, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 118 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	30% - This is to be in the form of assessed on-line contributions to each of nine sections with peer/tutor presentations of simple case studies relevant to each area. 30% - Submission of literature review /resource file of clinical issues in medical pain management (1500-3000 words) 40% - Medical Pain portfolio to comprise two sections: Section 1 ż (15%) development of a presentation or information sheet covering an aspect of medical pain management for a specific condition (2000 words maximum or 15 minute presentation/video Section 2 ż (25%) Two submissions from a series of questions posed to elucidate żcurrent controversiesż in medical pain management. (1500-2000 each = 4000 words)
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
Within the list of subdivisions of Medical Pain presented in the Short Description, on completion of this course, students will be expected to have established an advanced knowledge of the pain management for non-surgical, non-malignant, non-rheumatological/musculocutaneous disease. This will include an application of general principles to the management of medical pain plus specific knowledge relating to a number of commonly presenting conditions.