History of pain formation as a sub-branch of anesthesia in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

The subject of pain is one of the topics of interest in various scientific disciplines. Various disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature, art, etc. along with medical disciplines have discussed and considered pain with different approaches.Among universities and study centers active in the field of treatment, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences is one of the most important centers for the development of pain fellowships and the development of advanced interventions in the treatment of chronic pain. The aim of this study was to obtain the necessary information about how the field was formed and the process of its creation by talking to its founders and in the form of written articles to related centers and institutions, such as the University and the Pain Association and other related fields

The present study was a mixed-method study. The data were collected in two qualitative and quantitative stages. In the quantitative stage, available litratures were reviewed using systematic search, after that expert were interviewed individually in qualitative stage. Finally, the results of the quantitative and qualitative sections are combined and reported .

Among the shortcomings in all anesthesia and intensive care units in the country was the lack of training in the treatment of acute and chronic pain by anesthesia assistants.

Based on this, the proposal of the first multidisciplinary pain fellowship course based on the executive curricula of prestigious American and European universities, in 2006.This proposal was approved by Shahid Beheshti University and the Secretariat of the Specialized Council and approved during the legal process. In 2007, the first pain fellowship course involving 4 anesthesiologists began.