Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship

This book offers a comprehensive review of essential medical knowledge topics that pain fellows need to acquire to successfully graduate a Pain Medicine Fellowship Program. It enhances local curriculum in pain fellowships across the nation and offers standardized education of trainees while also serving as a reference for practitioners and trainees worldwide. The book serves several purposes: - Guides and standardizes teaching curriculum for the 120 ACGME accredited pain fellowships and about 200+ non-ACGME accredited fellowships - Offers trainees key references essential for their education and future career development - Serves as board preparation material - Guides pain program directors on developing a program-specific and fellow-specific curriculum tailored towards own institution Chapters follow a natural progression from basic science to topics on interventions, surgeries and emerging techniques in pain medicine. The reader is guided and directed towards concepts needed for progressing into becoming competent pain physicians. Together with introduction of essential topics in pain medicine, each chapter is introducing key publications that are requisite in learning the art and science of pain medicine. In the time where pain medicine is such a dynamic and innovation incubator, Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship, will ensure that next generations of pain practitioners speak the basic common language of our specialty and advance best practices in pain medicine.