Validation of a teaching tasks system for the professional ability formation to comprehensively treat pain in the general practitioner's mode of action

Background: the training of General Practitioners requires the ability preparation to comprehensively treat pain through the combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic alternatives, for the care of patients with pain.Objective: to validate a system of teaching tasks for the ability formation to comprehensively treat pain in the General Practitioner.Methods: the expert criterion, the Delphi method to validate the system and the Kendall W. was used to obtain the agreement of the experts consensus on the teaching task system. Interviews and observation of the students were carried out to obtain the trends that express their criteria on the use of different types of tasks, to form the ability to treat pain comprehensively.Results: the teaching task system was validated by highly adequate experts. It was applied in the sixth year of the medical career, during the teaching, healthcare and research practice. The students demonstrated performance in ability actions and operations to comprehensively treat pain.Conclusions: the applied task system was a formative alternative with integration of academic, work and research activity in the ability formation to comprehensively treat pain.