The International Pain Education Program (IPEP) is an exciting collaborative development between three universities (University of Sydney, University of Edinburgh and University of California, San Francisco) internationally recognised for their excellence in pain management and research. The program builds on the combined expertise of the three universities to provide a unique example of postgraduate level education in pain management to practitioners around the world. IPEP is delivered entirely online and a key aspect is the multidisciplinary background of the students enrolled.

IPEP aims to educate clinical practitioners so they are better enabled to deliver improved patient care and clinical outcomes. The course content is clinically relevant, informed by leading international research, and covers the relevant basic sciences, concepts of pain, and clinical approaches and procedures for acute and chronic management of pain by multidisciplinary teams.

The program is targeted at graduates in medicine, dentistry, psychology, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and other relevant disciplines who manage patients in pain.