An Interprofessional Consensus of Core Competencies for Prelicensure Education in Pain Management: Curriculum Application for Physical Therapy

ore competencies in pain man-agement for prelicensure health professional education were recently established. 1 These competencies represent the expec-tation of minimal capabilities for graduating health care students for pain management and include 4 domains: multidimensional nature of pain, pain assessment and measure-ment, management of pain, and con-text of pain (Appendix 1). The pur-pose of this article is to advocate for and identify how core competencies for pain can be applied to the pro-fessional (entry-level) physical thera-pist curriculum. By ensuring that core competencies in pain manage-ment are embedded within the foun-dation of physical therapist educa-tion, physical therapists will have the core knowledge necessary for offer-ing best care for patients, and the profession of physical therapy will continue to stand with all health pro-fessions engaged in comprehensive pain management.