Chronic pain (CP) affects over 50 million Americans daily and represents a unique challenge for healthcare professionals due to its complexity. Across all health professions, only a small percentage of the curriculum is devoted to treating patients with CP. Unfortunately, much of the content is delivered passively via lecture without giving students an opportunity to practice the communication skills to effectively treat patients in the clinic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth professional students often attend lectures equating resiliency with self-care. While self-care is vital, this graphic series suggests a dialectical tension between resiliency (as self-care) and resiliency (as group action or solidarity) and considers how actualizing and mobilizing "wellness" really is done in health professions education.
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