Table 2.

The 20 Most Frequently Reported Pain Subtopics Across Curriculum of Six Health Sciences Schools

Subtopic in Pain	# of Courses with Subtopic as a Required Topic
Pain/symptom-focused interviews (QRST approach)	12
Principles of analgesia and mechanisms of placebo effects	11
Clinical psychological approaches to care	10
Counseling and shared decision making	9
Conservative pain treatments and evidenced-based CAM	9
NSAIDs/COX inhibitors	9
Nociceptive pain	8
Inflammatory pain	8
Rehabilitation for pain problems	7
Neuromodulation	7
Neuropathic pain	7
Pain incidence and causes	6
Pain, disability, and pain economics	6
Opioids	6
Headache	6
Pain emergencies	6
Interpretation of pain and disease	6
Orofacial pain	6
Musculoskeletal pain and arthritis	6
Other	6