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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Pain Med. 2016 Jan 23;17(2):250–263. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnv095

Table 6.

Graduate and Post-Graduate Psychology Training Director Survey (N = 62)

% N
1. Please select from the following options which best characterize the type of degrees
offered at your academic institution.
62
Internship and/or postdoctoral fellowship 40.3 25
Doctoral level only 38.7 24
Master’s degree + doctoral degree 21.0 13
Master’s degree only 0.0 0
2. Please indicate the substantive area of the training program. 61
Clinical psychology 67.2 41
Combined clinical and counseling psychology 21.3 13
Other (“not applicable”) 6.6 4
Counseling psychology 4.9 3
3. Does your training program offer specialized curriculum or coursework in health
psychology?
59
Yes 64.4 38
No 35.6 21
4. Within the health psychology coursework is there specialized curriculum which
addresses treating patients with pain?
37
Yes 73.0 27
No 27.0 10
5. Please indicate from the selections below the amount of hours dedicated to 25
coursework and instruction in pain.
5–10 hours 40.0 10
0–4 hours 32.0 8
11+ hours 28.0 7
6. A pain psychology national task force is preparing a packaged curriculum on
pain psychology. Anticipated length of training would be 10–15 hours of direct
instruction, plus additional time as needed for readings (likely to consist of
20–30 articles). Benefits of the program to you and your students would be:
  • Low faculty burden: curriculum is print, video, and online learning

  • Specialty training in pain psychology from national leaders

  • Improved skills to prepare your students for internship and fellowship

  • Improved education and skills to prepare your trainees to treat patients (The IOM estimates that 100 million -Americans are living with pain);

  • Access to the pain psychology curriculum faculty

If available at no cost, would you be interested in learning more about the pain
psychology curriculum and possibly introducing this into your training program?
55
Yes 100 55
No 0.0 0