Tex. Educ. Code § 51.309 · Subchapter F. REQUIRED AND ELECTIVE COURSES
PAIN TREATMENT MEDICAL EDUCATION COURSE WORK.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each medical school shall determine the extent to which pain treatment medical education course work is meeting the instructional elements described in Subsection (b) and is offered to all students enrolled in medical schools.
(b) Pain treatment medical education course work should include instruction in:
(1) pain assessment in adults, children, and special populations, including elderly and impaired individuals;
(2) pain anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, and pharmacology of opioid and nonopioid analgesic drugs, including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics;
(3) the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of drug administration, side effects, treatment outcome, and the outcome of behavioral and other psychological therapy for pain;
(4) the psychological, social, economic, and emotional impact of malignant and nonmalignant acute and chronic pain on patients;
(5) indications for and outcomes of anesthetic and neurosurgical pain-relieving techniques, including nerve blocks and neuroaugmentative and neuroablative techniques; and
(6) the outcome of treatment of pain emanating from a damaged nervous system and neuropathic pain.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 174, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Renumbered from Education Code Sec. 61.785 by Acts 2001, ch. 1420, Sec. 4.012, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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