Abstract
Recent evidence reveals the continuing lack of pain content in health science curricula ⇓ despite the need worldwide to improve pain management practices. Comprehensive pain assessment and management is multidimensional and requires collaboration that reflects competencies in pain knowledge and skill attained by all health professionals. The Institute of Medicine has pointed to the need for health professionals to have greater pain knowledge and skills to participate in the cultural change needed to more successfully help people with pain ⇓. As well, the World Health Organization has suggested that collaborative practice results in more effective health service and delivery and more positive patient outcomes ⇓. However, collaboration will not occur if health professionals do not understand each others' roles and expertise and if they do not have a common language, for example, to discuss patient assessment and management issues. Although evidence for interprofessional education supports positive health outcomes, few health science programs offer the …
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