• Ylisabyth S Bradshaw, Neha Patel Wacks, Alejandra Perez-Tamayo, Brenden Myers, Chukwueloka Obionwu, Rebecca A Lee, and Daniel B Carr.
• Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Pain Med. 2017 Apr 1; 18 (4): 655-663.

ObjectiveInventory one medical school's first- and second-year pain-related curriculum in order to explore opportunities to teach about pain both as a social, population-based process and as a neuron-centered phenomenon.DesignDeconstruction of pain-related curricular content through a detailed content inventory and analysis by students and faculty.Setting And SubjectsUniversity-affiliated US medical school.MethodsDetailed inventory and content analysis of first- and second-year curricular materials.ResultsThe inventory of pain content showed fragmentation, mostly presenting it as a symptom without an underlying framework.ConclusionAnalysis of one medical school's pain-related curricular materials reveals opportunities for a more unified perspective that includes pain as a widespread disease state (not merely a symptom) and to provide an emphasis in the curriculum consistent with pain's public health burden.© 2017 American Academy of Pain Medicine. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com

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