McGill.CA / Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit

 

 

Chronic Pain Management at your fingertips - REGISTER HERE - 

ECHO is an interactive online medical education program, connecting health care providers with the interprofessional team the the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit at the Montreal General Hospital to advance learning and enhance clinical skills.

Supporting primary care providers in diagnosis and management of their chronic pain patients.

JOIN US 

All sessions are from 12pm - 1pm. For questions contact Rebecca Binik - Program Manager: rebecca.binik [at] mcgill.ca

Date

Topic

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Sept 25

Chronic Pain 101
  • Employ a comprehensive approach to assessing and helping patients manage chronic pain and risk
  • Understand the burden of chronic pain in our society
  • Differentiate between neuropathic and nociceptive pain

Oct 23

Pain History, Assessment, and Qualitative Sensory Exam
  • Perform a pain assessment integrating the relevant components from the history and physical exam (and measures/scales)
  • Recall the different types of pain (nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic)

Nov 20

Patient Motivation and Goal Setting
  • Develop an approach to goal setting when discussing pain treatments / strategies with patients
  • Develop an approach to helping patients set SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-bound) goals
  • Develop an approach to understand and motivate the patient into action

Dec 18

 Opioids Tapering
  • Discuss the benefits and risks of tapering
  • Address common barriers to tapering opioids
  • Manage opioid withdrawal symptoms
  • Facilitate safe opioid tapering for patients
  • Switch opioids
  • Calculate morphine equivalent dose (MED) per day for prescribed opioids in Canada

Jan 22

Screening for Psychosocial & Psychiatric Co-morbidities
  • Recognize the psychosocial risk factors for chronicity 
  • Engage in brief screening strategies for psychiatric co-morbidities, maladaptive attitudes, and beliefs 
  • Utilize office-based strategies and referral options to follow-up on positive screens

Feb 19

Cannabis 101
  • Appreciate the evidence base behind cannabinoids
  • Develop an approach for authorizing cannabis for chronic pain

Mar 19

Back Pain & Spinal Stenosis
  • Recognize yellow and red flags in acute and chronic low back pain
  • Intervene appropriately to prevent evolution into Chronic Low-Back Pain
  • Manage: chronic non-specific low-back pain, spinal stenosis, radicular syndromes using guideline-based treatments

April 30

Headaches (Migraines)
  • Diagnose migraine headache
  • Identify 3 risk factors for headache chronicity
  • Be familiar with headache guidelines

May 28

Fibromyalgia
  • Be aware of the 2012 Canadian Fibromyalgia Guidelines and the updated 2019 FM Diagnostic Criteria
  • Recall and describe the maladaptive neuroplasticity underlying FM
  • Confident and able to promote active management strategies for patients with FM

 

 

Back to top