Spring 2027

Integrated Elective in Pain Management

Integrated elective providing direct supervised clinical experience in pain management across Anesthesiology, Neurology, and Palliative Care services, clinics, and cancer centers.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jeff Grzybowski

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Distinguish between acute pain as a symptom indicating actual or potential tissue damage, and while chronic pain, that has no physiological function.

  • Describe the pathophysiological effects of poorly controlled acute pain.

  • Discuss the epidemiology and risk factors for developing chronic pain.

  • Demonstrate ability to assess pain and its impact on function, mood and QOL including in adults and children.

  • Describe differences in treatment approaches for acute and chronic pain.

  • Discuss causes, clinical presentation and treatment of common chronic pain disorders, e.g. low back pain, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, CRPS, headaches, and neuropathy.

  • Describe the prevalence of pain in cancer and palliative care settings, mechanisms of pain, evaluation and treatment approaches.

  • Describe evidence for use of different drugs, including opiod analgesics in acute and chronic pain treatments

  • Describe evidence for use of non-pharmacological approaches (rehabilitation treatments and behavior psychology) in acute and chronic pain treatments

  • Describe evidence for interventional approaches (regional anesthetic blocks, spinal injections, nerve and joint injections) in pain management.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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  • Graduate/professional standing
ANESTHES 940

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027
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JEFF GRZYBOWSKI is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Direct supervision by residents, fellows, and attending physicians in Anesthesiology, Neurology, and Palliative Care departments, including but not limited to the Acute Pain Service, Regional Anesthesia service, Chronic Pain Service, Chronic Pain Clinic, Headache Clinic, Carbone Cancer Center, and Madison Surgery Center. Participate in regularly scheduled supervisor-student meetings, which involve some or all of the following: rounding on service patients, interviewing clinic patients, participating in scheduled procedures, presenting cases and teaching topics, and discussing patient cases. Complete independent activities including some or all of the following: reading about patient conditions and preparing for direct patient care as needed. Complete other patient care related learning activities as assigned by instructors; these are dependent on the individual student, the patients under the student's care, and the location.

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Topics

  • Differentiating acute and chronic pain mechanisms.
  • Common chronic pain disorders and their clinical presentations.
  • Pain management in cancer and palliative care settings.

Skills

  • Assess pain and its impact on function, mood, and quality of life.
  • Describe evidence for pharmacological pain treatments.
  • Describe evidence for non-pharmacological pain management approaches.
  • Describe evidence for interventional pain management techniques.

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ANESTHES 940 · Spring 2027

Integrated Elective in Pain Management

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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