“Chronic Pain Care for Indigenous Patients” is an online asynchronous learning course intended to educate physicians on the provision of culturally-safer, trauma-informed chronic pain care for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The course is organized into four section that cover the following content:
1) an overview of the historical and ongoing colonial policies and practices in Canada that impact the health of Indigenous Peoples and their experiences when accessing the healthcare system;
2) an introduction to chronic pain and approaches to pain care based on Western medical and Indigenous perspectives, including a patient-centred examination of the barriers that Indigenous patients face in accessing chronic pain care;
3) recommendations for providing high quality culturally-safer care to Indigenous individuals with chronic pain;
4) guidance for accessing supports when caring for Indigenous patients and resources for further learning.

The course incorporates interactive self-guided components throughout the content slides and includes opportunities to reinforce learning in the form of embedded case examples, reflection questions, and quizzes. Learners also have an opportunity to ask the course facilitator questions that are moderated and displayed, along with facilitator responses, on the learning platform.