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The current state of training in pain medicine fellowships: An Association of Pain Program Directors (APPD) survey of program directors.
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Wahezi SE, Emerick TD, Caparó M, Choi H, Eshraghi Y, Naeimi T, Kohan L, Anitescu M, Wright T, Przkora R, Patel K, Lamer TJ, Moeschler S, Yener U, Alerte J, Grandhe R, Bautista A, Spektor B, Noon K, Reddy R, Osuagwu UC, Carpenter A, Gerges FJ, Horn DB, Murphy CA, Kim C, Pritzlaff SG, Marshall C, Kirchen G, Oryhan C, Swaran Singh TS, Sayed D, Lubenow TR, Sehgal N, Argoff CE, Gulati A, Day MR, Shaparin N, Sibai N, Dua A, Barad MAbstract
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved the first pain medicine fellowship programs over three decades ago, designed around a pharmacological philosophy. Following that, there has been a rise in the transition of pain medicine education toward a multidisciplinary interventional model based on a tremendous surge of contemporaneous literature in these areas. This trend has created variability in clinical experience and education amongst accredited pain medicine programs with minimal literature evaluating the differences and commonalities in education and experience of different pain medicine fellowships through Program Director (PD) experiences. This study aims to gather insight from pain medicine fellowship program directors across the country to assess clinical and interventional training, providing valuable perspectives on the future of pain medicine education.