Master's Degree in Clinical and Basic Aspects of Pain
- Alcorcón, Spain
- Móstoles, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
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Key Summary
About: This Máster Universitario en Aspectos Clínicos y Básicos del Dolor is a university-level master's focusing on the clinical and basic aspects of pain. It emphasizes pain science, clinical pain, pain assessment, pain management, analgesia, and pain research; related terms include nociception, chronic pain, multidisciplinary pain care, rehabilitation, and neuroscience. The title is presented in Spanish.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work across healthcare, research, and teaching. Potential roles include pain clinician or specialist, clinical researcher in pain science, pain management nurse or physiotherapist, clinical coordinator for pain services, academic lecturer in pain studies, and clinical trials specialist in analgesics roles.
The overall objective of the program is to train professionals qualified to work in the field of pain management, in its various aspects. Thus, and always respecting the professional competencies that the law grants to each qualification, depending on the original training (physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, pharmacists, dentists, podiatrists, etc.) and the subjects studied within the Master's program, graduates will be qualified to work in the following areas:
- Study of mechanisms, causes and therapeutic approaches to pain.
- Participation in a multidisciplinary approach to pain treatment and in specialized hospital units (acute and chronic pain units)
- In the non-hospital setting: in Primary Care, pain is also the leading cause of consultation, therefore, specialized training is also of interest to healthcare professionals who work in other settings (outpatient clinics, rehabilitation centers, geriatric centers, pharmacies, rural clinics, etc.).
In any case, in the field of healthcare, the professional activities that graduates can develop related to the Master's degree, as well as their limitations, will be determined by the professional training specific to each student's original degree.
Training Itinerary
- Anatomy and Physiology of Pain Transmission
- Diagnosis and therapeutic approach to the patient with pain
- Pharmacological bases involved in the action of analgesics
- Psychological interventions in the patient with pain
- Basic and clinical aspects of pain
- Interventional techniques in pain treatment
- Physical medicine
- Spinal mechanisms of pain and sensorimotor dysfunction
- Orofacial pain
- Advanced course on receptors for neurotransmitters
- Psychotropic drugs and pain
- Advances in Neuropsychopharmacology
- Applied Statistics
- Information methodology
ITINERARY II *
- Stay in Pain Units of participating Hospitals
- Master's Thesis Itinerary I
ITINERARY II *
- Stay in Research Laboratories of participating Universities
- Master's Thesis Itinerary II
ITINERARY III *
- Internship in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Master's Thesis Itinerary III
What knowledge will I acquire with this Master's degree?
The <span translate="no">Master's Degree in Clinical and Basic Aspects of Pain</span> is designed as a program that offers students the training of professionals capable of working in the field of pain, in its different aspects.