This session is intended to generate a discussion towards formulating a basic early understanding of pain for future physicians. It is also intended to serve as a framework for future learning about how pain manifests in the context of health or disease, be it acute, chronic, or terminal, and to consider how it might be managed. Finally, this session is intended to begin illustrating how psychological, environmental and social factors can influence the experience of pain and its management thus resulting in the potential need for an interdisciplinary approach in that regard.