Background: There is a growing societal need for health professional competency in pain care. The University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain-Interfaculty Pain Curriculum (UTCSP-IPC) has been offered since 2002. Content and process have been updated annually. In addition, participating health professions programs have advanced their pain teaching. A curricular scan was needed to creatively and constructively advance the UTCSP-IPC. Aim: The aim of this study was to map curricular pain content in participating health professions programs onto the UTCSP-IPC content as a first step to further curriculum design. Methods: UTCSP-IPC committee members and faculty representatives from six health profession programs completed a 27-item online survey in this collaborative action study. Descriptive statistics were completed in Microsoft Excel. Results: The UTCSP-IPC provided an average of 43.3% (range 32%-62%) of total pain content teaching hours to participating health professions students and a range of 8% to 100% of total opioid-related teaching hours. Curricular overlaps and gaps in pain content were identified and will be used to update and inform the iterative design of the UTCSP-IPC. Ninety-three percent of participating health professions faculty indicated that the interprofessional focus on pain care in the UTCSP-IPC was important. Conclusion: This study highlighted the value of the UTCSP and areas of curricular refinement to ensure continued relevance in relationship to pain content within the six participating health professions programs. Mapping a coordinated approach between uniprofessional and interprofessional teaching will both meet the demands of professional competence and create greater applicability to future practice settings. RÉSUMÉ Contexte : Il est de plus en plus nécessaire que les professionnels de la santé aient les compétences nécessaires pour la prise en charge de la douleur au sein de la société. Le Programme interfacultaire sur la douleur du Centre pour l'étude de la douleur de l'Université de Toronto (UTCSP-IPC) est offert depuis 2002. Son contenu et son processus ont été mis à jour chaque année. Les programmes des professions du domaine de la santé participantes ont eux aussi perfectionné leur enseignement sur la douleur. Une radiographie du programme était donc nécessaire afin d'améliorer l'UTCSP-IPC de manière créative et constructive. Objectif : Recenser le contenu sur la douleur dans les programmes des professions du domaine de la santé participantes afin de l'inclure dans l'UTCSP-IPC en tant que première étape pour améliorer la conception du programme. Méthodes : Des membres du comité de l'UTCSP-IPC et des représentants des facultés de six programmes de professions du domaine de la santé ont répondu à un sondage en ligne comprenant 27 énoncés dans le cadre de cette étude collaborative. Des statistiques descriptives ont ensuite été compilées dans Microsoft Excel™.
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