Resumen
Background: The 2018 Global Year for Excellence in Pain Education, an initiative of the International Association for the Study of Pain, brought worldwide attention to the need for education that crosses narrow disciplinary boundaries, addresses up-to-date research methods and findings, and encourages teamwork among trainees and mentors at different levels of training and with different perspectives. Aims: This commentary describes the development of Pain in Child Health (PICH), an interdisciplinary training program for researchers in pediatric pain at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels of training. Methods: Based on documentation of the structure, training processes, leadership, and membership of PICH, we outline its organization and its challenges and accomplishments over the first 12 years of its growth into a well-known international program. Results and Conclusions: Pain in Child Health began as a Strategic Training Initiative of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2002 and developed into an international research training consortium featuring cross-site and cross-discipline mentorship and collaboration. PICH trainees and alumni have contributed extensively to the current scientific literature on children’s pain. PICH could serve as a possible model for training and mentorship in other specialized health research domains within and outside thestudy of pain.
| Idioma original | English |
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| Páginas (desde-hasta) | 1-7 |
| Número de páginas | 7 |
| Publicación | Canadian Journal of Pain |
| Volumen | 3 |
| N.º | 1 |
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| Estado | Published - 2019 |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:Principal funding for the Pain in Child Health strategic training initiative was received from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and from the Mayday Fund. Other funding sources are noted in the article. Appreciation is extended for the support of the sponsors listed in the article and the work of the capable PICH managers over the years: Barb Brown, Justine Dol, Rachel Gough, Suzanne McGovern, and others. The many collaborating faculty in Canada and internationally and the trainee members of PICH have also contributed tremendously to the history described in this commentary.
Funding Information:
The two major grants from CIHR (2002–2009 and 2009–2018) provided funds for Canadian PICH trainees’ stipends and travel to training institutes and lab visits as well as for PICH administration to support training activities. The participating universities contributed to funding of their own trainees’ PICH activities. In addition, an unrestricted educational grant was received from Janssen-Ortho Pharmaceuticals, and funding was also received from the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation. The Mayday Fund, a private charitable foundation based in New York and dedicated to the alleviation of pain, provided generous financial support for trainees who were not based at Canadian universities. With the invaluable support of the Mayday Fund and its Executive Director Christina Spellman, by 2013 trainees and faculty from 14 countries were participating in PICH: see the infographic in .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. © 2019 Carl L. von Baeyer, Bonnie J. Stevens, Kenneth D. Craig, G. Allen Finley, C. Celeste Johnston, V. E. Grunau Ruth, Christine T. Chambers, Rebecca R. Pillai Riddell, Jennifer N. Stinson and Patrick J. McGrath.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article