ProgramCIP 51.1403

Pain Management

A post-residency program of study that prepares physicians in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of acute and chronic pain. Includes instruction in anesthesiology, pain assessment, pain classification and diagnosis, pain neuroscience, palliative and end-of-life care, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry of pain, pain pharmacology, public policy, and legal issues of pain management.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).