Pain management | Discuss indications and timing for specific management | Conduct physical examination and interpret findings | Accepts the importance of multimodal pain management |
| Recall medications, mode of action, dosing, recommended and non-recommended combinations, side-effects and their management | Manage pain of diverse aetiology (e.g. neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome) | |
| Discuss principles of palliative radiotherapy | Treat acute as well chronic pain | |
| Describe interventional pain management techniques (intrathecal, epidural administration, nerve blocks) | Select opioids and manage opioid toxicity | |
| Discuss ablative techniques (radiofrequency, cryoablation) | Provide end-of-life care related to pain management | |
| Compare surgical procedures | | |
| Explain biphosphonates | | |
| Discuss and list psychosomatic symptoms | | |
| Discuss psychological aspects and approaches to pain management in cancer patients | | |