What do you learn on the postgraduate programme? 

We provide a profound insight in complex forms of acute, subacute and chronic pain and help you develop the communicative, social, technical and manual skills you need to evaluate patients on a multidisciplinary level and to function in a multidisciplinary team. You will also be able to apply your own specific expertise from previous specialised education in a multimodal treatment plan. We organise the content of the education according to the CanMEDS competence domain: physician, scientist, communicator.

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After graduation

In this master's degree, our main objective is to educate qualified specialists in the control of pain in its widest sense. As a physician, this postgraduate education will arm you with the scientific knowledge, skills and attitudes you need to provide an excellent patient care to patients with complex pain issues.

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