Altarum Institute and Palladian Partners, an Altarum company, are under a multiyear contract to support the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Consortium’s trans-NIH effort to create Centers of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPEs). CoEPEs will develop pain management curriculum resources for health care professionals that will advance the assessment, diagnosis, and safe treatment of pain. Case-based scenarios will form the backbone of the curriculum resources.

The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to fund the creation of Centers of Excellence in Pain Education. CoEPEs will act as hubs for the creation, development, evaluation, integration, promotion, and distribution of pain management curriculum resources, as well as be leaders for change in the pain management education of health professionals nationwide.

We seek to empower “Pain Champions”—those educators already working to improve pain education—as well as those needing additional resources and support to do so.

Each CoEPE will develop and promote high-quality, scientifically reviewed and evaluated educational resources for the teaching of pain management. Each CoePE will be expected to market its own resources as well as other resources developed through this initiative.

Eligible applicants include accredited medical, dental, nursing, and/or pharmacy professional schools. Collaborations among schools within institutions as well as between different institutions are encouraged, as are inter-professional curriculum resources that promote teamwork among medical, dental, nursing, and/or pharmacy professionals.

Applicants should think creatively about how to successfully integrate new resources on pain management into existing training programs. Collaborations among schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and/or pharmacy are encouraged, as are inter-institutional collaborations.

Click here to download the Centers of Excellence in Pain Education RFP and the accompanying budget template.

Questions about this RFP are due by January 13, 2012.  Email questions to PainEducation@palladianpartners.com. Selected questions and responses will be posted on this website, as well as any needed clarifications regarding the RFP. The identity of those asking questions will not be posted. Answers. 

Proposals are due March 5, 2012.