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Our webinars feature Q&As, presentations and much more information on important and current matters of pain research and science as well as main activities and projects of the European Pain Federation EFIC. Please note: Some may for EFIC Academy members only and require access to the EFIC Academy Education Platform.

This European Diploma in Pain Nursing aims to provide a benchmark across Europe to ensure a consistency of standards and outcomes across the pain nursing community. Nurses who enrol for the diploma will receive free EFIC Academy membership and upon successful completion of the two-part examination a certificate and a badge. This webinar will offer potential candidates the opportunity to learn more about the examination and how to prepare. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions of the examiners.

This multiple-method study recently published in the European Journal of Pain provides credible explanations for the six most common diagnoses of non-traumatic knee pain. Additionally, it identified three key domains that may need to be addressed to reduce diagnostic uncertainty in adolescents suffering from pain complaints. Find out more about the study and its findings in this webinar and use the opportunity to ask questions from the co-authors directly.
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Our webinars feature Q&As, presentations and much more information on important and current matters of pain research and science as well as main activities and projects of the European Pain Federation EFIC. Please note: Some may for EFIC Academy members only and require access to the EFIC Academy Education Platform.

Watch this Q&A related to these two sessions available on the EFIC Academy Education Platform:
“Fear of pain: Concepts, evidence and application”
“Pain management for older adults: Overview and treatment approaches”
Speakers:
Johannes Vlaeyen
Ann Meulders
Katja Boersma


Watch this Q&A related to this session newly available on the EFIC Academy Education Platform: “Patient perspective- Priorities in educating patients and professionals”
Speakers:
Chris Bridgeford
Joe Parsons

Watch this webinar on the joint European Academy of Neurology-European Pain Federation-Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group of the International Association for the Study of Pain guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment to find out more and to ask questions directly from co-authors.
Panelists:
Andrea Truini, Sapienza University of Rome
Nadine Attal, UVSQ Paris Saclay University
Luis Garcia-Larrea, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre

Watch a recording of this webinar co-hosted by the British Pain Society and the European Pain Federation EFIC as they explore where the challenges and opportunities lie within pain education. A panel of leading experts identify and investigate some of the current skills gaps and educational needs across health and social care, sharing best practice and new thinking in the field.
Host: Matthew Hall, Executive Director of the British Pain Society
Panelists: Morten Hoegh, Chair of the EFIC Online Education Working Group Felicia Cox, Chair of the EFIC Pain Nursing Education Working Group Ed Keogh, Chair of the EFIC Pain Psychology Education Working Group

Watch this webinar with Peter O’Sullivan and Peter Kent from the Curtin University in Perth, Australia on cognitive functional therapy. CFT is a patient-centred approach that facilitates patients to self-manage by targeting their individual pain-related cognitions, emotions, and behaviours that contribute to their pain and disability.
Host: EFIC Research Projects Advisor Mary O’Keeffe

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. Affecting roughly 10% (190 million) of reproductive age women and girls globally, EFIC organised this webinar on 27 March 2023 to increase awareness on this topic, share recent research and also provide an opportunity to ask questions of our panellists.
Featuring presentations on:
- “Why do people with endometriosis experience pain?” by Katy Vincent
- “The benefit of integrating mindfulness-based intervention in standard medical care for women with endometriosis” by Marcelo de França Moreira
- “Hidden Scars: Psychosocial factors and support for Endometriosis” by Claudia Chisari

Join our webinar on “ChatGPT and (pain) research – opportunity or threat?” on 10 March 2023 at 12.30pm CET. Ever since launching in late 2022, ChatGPT has been making headlines in connection to its role in academia. In this webinar, we wish to explore how AI tools such a ChatGPT may influence the future of (pain) research. it be a potential threat or possibly a significant aide? What sort of role will nonhuman ‘authors’ play in the future, and what will this mean for the integrity of pain science?

On 28 April 2023, EFIC organised a webinar on chronic primary pain where we aimed to give an overview on the definition and new classification under ICD-11 as well as more information on the assessment and management of chronic primary pain.
Host: Mary O’Keeffe, EFIC Research Projects Advisor
Panelists:
Rolf-Detlef-Treede, Heidelberg University
Beatrice Kowisi, Philipps-University Marburg
Paul Cameron, EFIC Advocacy Committee Chair