1. Health professionals need access to flexible, high-quality, advanced education in pain management.
2. There are multiple pedagogical distances to be negotiated in the delivery of effective postgraduate education.
3. A critical consideration in the design and delivery of effective online learning for postgraduate education in pain management is how to: actively engage students in the learning process; and encourage students to become lifelong learners.
4. Conceptual frameworks for encouraging student interaction online provide a useful tool in the design of postgraduate online learning activities.
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