Most state medical boards require continuing medical education (CME) for physicians to renew their license. Recently, legislatures and state regulatory boards have begun to require or encourage that CME include education on pain management or palliative care for all or some licensees to provide physicians with updated medical, scientific and clinical knowledge. Evidence that many physicians lack knowledge about pain management and received little training in medical school suggests that such policies are needed and may be a positive step toward improving pain management. Emphasis should be placed on the quality of the curriculum and teaching methods. These policy initiatives should be viewed as experiments until evaluations demonstrate their value.

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