Society Information

European Pain Federation EFIC

The European Pain Federation EFIC® is a multi-disciplinary professional organisation in the field of pain research and pain management, consisting of the 38 chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP®) in Europe. Established in 1993, the European Pain Federation EFIC constituent chapters represent close to 20,000 physicians, basic researchers, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists and other healthcare professionals across Europe, who are involved in pain management and pain research. 

Aims
In general the European Pain Federation is organised to promote multidisciplinary research, education and management of pain. The specific aim is to create a forum for European collaboration on pain issues and to encourage communication at a European level between the federation's member societies and also with other bodies interested and involved in the fields of pain research and pain therapy, such as European, regional or national societies or federations of medical specialities (anaesthesiology, neurology, headache, palliative care, etc), institutions of the European Community, European and national educators, legislators and health care providers.

Constitution
The affairs of the European Pain Federation are conducted by its Council, which consists of the President or the councillor of each member pain society and 6 elected officers who form the Executive Board of the Federation. The Council meets at least once a year, while the Executive Board manages affairs between Council meetings. The European Pain Federation is being established as a charitable foundation in Belgium.

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Members of national European Pain Societies (IASP chapters)
The European Pain Federation is pleased to be able to offer individual members of the national European Pain Societies complimentary online access to current and back issues of European Journal of Pain for their personal use only.

Visit www.efic.org and click on the ‘Publications’ drop down menu in order to complete your details to activate access to the Journal.