Training & Curriculum
The Pain Medicine Anesthesiology Fellowship consists of 12 calendar months of clinical and didactic teaching.
The goal of the Pain Medicine Anesthesiology Fellowship is to provide advanced clinical training designed to enhance clinical skills in pain management in addition to an educational experience covering all aspects of the management of patients with pain, as well as provide opportunities for those interested in developing research and teaching activities in this area.
The fellowship provides the fellows with the educational experiences specified in the requirements in each of the fellows’ non-primary areas. Discrete clinical rotations provide the educational experiences and supervision to allow fellows to gain competency in each of the areas of pain medicine education.
Goals
- Developing the required core competencies needed to provide pain management services to patients with acute/chronic pain diseases.
- Developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the safe conduct of pain medicine. This includes patient evaluation; interpretation and recognition of various pain syndromes; application and performance of invasive treatments; use of adjunct therapies; and understanding the appropriate use of multiple pharmacologic agents.
- Practicing the art of pain management in a moral, ethical and professional manner worthy of the Cedars-Sinai model of lifelong professional excellence.
The Pain Medicine Anesthesiology Fellowship achieves these goals through a learner-centered program. The integration of educational methods is based on clinical experiential learning; didactic staff lectures; problem-based learning discussions; pro-con debates; learning projects including research, journal presentation and evidence-based reviews; multidisciplinary conferences; and exposure to the high volume of pain management cases at Cedars-Sinai. These goals support the Department of Anesthesiology’s mission of graduating fellows who are consultants and experts in providing pain management, lifelong learners and models of professional excellence with unique skill sets allowing them to make significant contributions to the field of pain management.
The Pain Medicine Anesthesiology Fellowship offers four positions filled through the National Resident Matching Program.
Pain Medicine Fellowship Subspeciality Annual Rotation Schedule
(Rotation Order Varies)
PNCP: Subspecialty rotations (palliative care and cancer pain, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology clinic, headache clinic, psychiatry and addiction medicine. Depending on the primary discipline of the fellow, this block is modified to provide experiences in each of the required areas. Fellows whose primary discipline is not anesthesiology will be given preference to schedule this block early in the year. The last three weeks are divided between consultation-liaison psychiatry (seven workdays) and inpatient supportive medicine (eight workdays).
Pain 1 and Pain 2: Multidisciplinary outpatient pain medicine rotations, consisting of outpatient chronic pain, pain psychology and interventional pain procedures.
Vacation = (2 x 0.5 block)
All blocks include fellow chronic pain medicine continuity clinic, research, didactic and conference, and elective. Electives include additional research time, imaging, spine clinic, regional anesthesia service, additional headache clinic and/or electrodiagnostics.
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