Compulsory hours spent on undergraduate pain medicine education in medical schools in 15 European countries
| Variable | Total schools (N=242)* | Belgium (N=10) | Bulgaria (N=5) | Denmark (N=4) | France (N=31) | Germany (N=35) | Ireland (N=6) | Italy (N=40) | The Netherlands (N=7) | Poland (N=11) | Portugal (N=7) | Romania (N=10) | Spain (N=36) | Sweden (N=7) | Switzer land (N=5) | UK (N=28) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory dedicated pain modules, N with available data | 25 | – | – | – | 20 | 3 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Median hours (range) (IQR) | 12·0 (4·0–56·0) (12.0; Q1: 8.0, Q3: 20.0) | – | – | – | 12·0 (4·0–33·0) | 2·0 (9·0–56·0) | – | – | 4·0 (4·0–4·0) | – | – | – | – | – | 27·5 (27·5–27·5) | – |
| Other compulsory modules,†, N with available data | 43 | 6 | – | – | 3 | 8 | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | – | 1 | – |
| Median hours (range) (IQR) | 9·0 (1·0–60·0) (10.5; Q1: 5.0, Q3: 15.5) | 7·0 (4·0–10·0) | – | – | 7·5 (6·0–7·5) | 9·5 (1·0–60·0) | – | 4·0 (2·0–6·0) | 14·0 (10·0–18·0) | 39·5 (39·5–39·5) | 14·5 (5·0–30·0) | 4·0 (4·0–17·0) | 11·5 (3·0–3·.0) | – | 16·0 (16·0–16·0) | – |
*Number of schools for which some or all elements of the curriculum were available.
†Represents the sum of all applicable courses for which pain hours were available. Hours spent teaching pain in the dedicated pain modules and in other non-pain-specific compulsory modules are mutually exclusive (schools may have both compulsory dedicated pain courses and pain teaching in other modules).