“On average, about four hours is spent on migraine in undergraduate medical education,”

The facts about lack of education about headaches, migraine among doctors.


Education, Proper Diagnosis Lacking

The WHO issued a report 10 years ago (“Headache Disorders and Public Health”) that emphasized the importance of migraine education. Since then, there’s been little effort to train physicians on the nuances of migraines and other headache disorders, said Brad Klein, MD, medical director of the Abington Headache Center at Abington Memorial Hospital, near Philadelphia.

“On average, about four hours is spent on migraine in undergraduate medical education,” said Dr. Klein. “During neurology residency, [headache training] is about 10 hours total. But for most neurologists, patients with migraine and headache disorders will represent about 20% of their patients, and even for primary care doctors, they’ll see six times more patients with migraine than tension headache. But many It’s amazing to me how many physicians are uninformed and lack a basic major academic medical centers across the country don’t even have a headache center or headache specialist.understanding of how to manage headaches.”

http://www.painmedicinenews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Clinical+Pain+Medicine&d_id=82&i=October+2011&i_id=770&a_id=19213

This article is thanks to courtesy of our Angela (Angelapet), who's sent me this very enlightening link.
Thank you, Angela!!!

I don't know about you guys, but while reading this article my fists are curling involuntarily, hmmmm....

Risa

Cindy

i rare to find a good neuro to begin with, but someone that knows a bit about M is even more difficult.

i'm handling it with my family doc, cardiologists (the heart disease guy and the heart rhythm lady), ENT, and neuroendocrinologist to balance the M's.

my eye docs are extremely helpful too.

I've given up on "curing" or controlling my migraines so I go to neurologist who specializes in pain control.

I had one drug make me psychotic, my GP wanted to put me on one that was very similar to it. I said "no". He got angry and told me it was my last hope.

That's when I got angry and decided to worry about the pain rather than the root of it.

4 hours. Wow, I had to spend a whole semester to learn how to catalog a book correctly.