Objectives

Know the pathophysiology of pain and the types of pain.

Use analgesics and drugs used as adjuvants in the treatment of pain.

Master the knowledge of their adverse reactions, contraindications and differential characteristics.

To study the most frequent pathologies in clinical practice and their treatment for pain.

Content

Methodology

Entre el material entregado en este curso se adjunta un documento llamado Guía del Alumno dónde aparece un horario de tutorías telefónicas y una dirección de e-mail dónde podrá enviar sus consultas, dudas y ejercicios. Además recibirá los materiales didácticos que incluye el curso para poder consultarlos en cualquier momento y conservarlos una vez finalizado el mismo.La metodología a seguir es ir avanzando a lo largo del itinerario de aprendizaje online, que cuenta con una serie de temas y ejercicios. Para su evaluación, el alumno/a deberá completar todos los ejercicios propuestos en el curso. La titulación será remitida al alumno/a por correo una vez se haya comprobado que ha completado el itinerario de aprendizaje satisfactoriamente.

What does it prepare you for?

With this course in Pain Therapy (University Degree + 8 ECTS Credits) you will have the opportunity to specialize in Pain Therapy and more specifically in the area of knowledge of Health Care, all with the sole objective: To use analgesics and drugs used as adjuvants in the treatment of pain, as well as to master their adverse reactions, contraindications and differential characteristics.

Who is it aimed at?

This course in Pain Therapy (University Degree + 8 ECTS Credits) is especially aimed at nurses, doctors,... although it is a degree within the University's own teachings that does not qualify for professional practice, so that according to Article 37.7 of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28, which establishes the organization of university education and the procedure for quality assurance for the degrees included in the University's own education that do not require a previous university degree for access to them, the purpose of these courses is the expansion and updating of knowledge, competences and training or professional skills that contribute to a better labor insertion of citizens without a university degree, so it will be open to any person without a university degree in health access who is interested in taking it.

Career opportunities

The professional opportunities of this course in Pain Therapy (University Degree + 8 ECTS Credits) are those in which a specialization in the area of pain is required for doctors, nurses or any health professional who develops this area with the population, either in hospital, public clinic, private clinic and thus improve their training.