Manuals and slides
Please contact [email protected] to obtain the EPM instructor manual.
EPM App
The EPM app is intended as a mobile companion for those who have attended the course, however it may benefit any healthcare worker who cares for patients in pain and is easy and intuitive to use.
The EPM app for both iPhone/iPad and Android is available for downloading. Search for <essential pain management> in the App Store or Google play.
The app takes the user through the “RAT” formula while assessing a patient, arrives at a pain diagnosis and then suggests non-drug and drug treatments based on the course and manual.
The app’s logbook feature allows the user to record serial patient assessment details including treatments on their handheld device and to export and share this information with colleagues. Users are cautioned against storing patient identifiers and should seek local guidelines for this. The app can also be used without storing any details.
EPM online reporting tool
The online reporting tool is designed to be easy to complete and allows the EPM Committee to track all the great EPM activities around the world. All instructors are asked to use this tool to facilitate simplified and improved data collection.
EPM publications
- Evaluation of Essential Pain Management (EPM) Program in Bangladesh (2013-2018) - report 2020
- Addressing the Challenge of Pain Education in Low-Resource Countries: Essential Pain Management in Papua New Guinea - journal article 2020
- Are Short Subspecialty Courses the Educational Answer? - journal article 2018
Essential Pain Management (EPM) is a short, easily deliverable, cost-effective, multi-disciplinary program designed to improve pain management worldwide.
EPM Online provides a primer in the essentials of pain management. It covers the tools that can be used to recognise, assess, and treat pain. It isn't intended to replace face-to-face EPM, but adds an additional, accessible resource to the EPM suite of education.
The Essential Pain Management program consists of two parts – the EPM one-day workshop and the EPM instructor workshop.