UK Petition to include 'PELVIC PAIN' in the UK university curriculum for ALL medical students

Please could UK members of this forum sign this petition.  It's a petition to include 'PELVIC PAIN' in the UK university curriculum for ALL medical students. Most of us in the UK struggle to find good medical care as our GPs and consultants received no education about pelvic pain during training. Please help make it a part of all medical training. Healthcare professionals who suffer from pelvic pain themselves admit that they received no formal training in pelvic pain in their medical education.  You could help change this situation.  Thank you Xx 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/128528

Will do. Training in even general pain management is sorely lacking. The consultant on the pain management programme I went on for my back/neck/hip/everywhere pain said that it wasn't until she was training to be an anaesthetist that she learnt much about pain.

Thanks so much painblogger If you can tweet it or share it in some way to reach more people that would grand too. Dr Philip Hammond (off the telly) has just tweeted it...so, who knows, the Government might end up having to respond! It's appalling that our docs know so little about pain, what with so many conditions right across the board involving pain in one way or another. Thanks again

That's great that there's even a petition! I sure hope it gets enough signatures!

Just signed the petition.

Thank you Fairlight10

emalita wrote:That's great that there's even a petition! I sure hope it gets enough signatures!

Thanks Emalita I think there may be also some sort of petition or campaign in the USA going on atm. I'll ask on the Facebook Group I belong to and, if I'm right about that, I'll let you the details.

Hi again, Emalita,

Here's the American petition to "Incorporate vulvovaginal and pelvic pain conditions into core curricula of gynecology and obstetrics and continuing ed" http://www.ataraschimmel.com/petitions.html

The lady behind the campaign/petition it is Atara Schimmel.

This is Atara's FB page https://www.facebook.com/atara.schimmel?fref=ts and this is the group she runs on FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/pudendalneuralgiahope/ (it's a closed group so you'd have to apply to join it).

Hope that this is of some help/interest.

Thank you for the link! It's great that there is a focus here in the US, too.

You're welcome, Emalita