Pain Elective coming up and neuro2pain

[Neuro2pain]

Hey,

Pgy2 neuro resident here. I am scheduled for my pain rotation with an ANESETHESIA based interventional pain department at my hospital to start in May. They do have a fellowship and so Id like to impress them as much as possible and ideally obtain a letter of recommendation for fellowship after the month is done.

I have a month of neuro radiology prior to this. Admittedly I don't have a strong knowledge base for pain aside from what I see in the neuro clinic and headache. Is there any book or series of articles or some kind of primer I should read prior to starting this rotation so that I come off as being very well read? I want to avoid the huge texts for now but is there any good primer for pain medicine?

On a side note, any other neurologists go into pain med on the forum? I was wondering if you could kindly PM me as I am having trouble finding any locally where I'm from for advice.

Thanks

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[emd123]

In like this one for a primer on the procedural stuff:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1608317048


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[cbest]

I really liked Essentials of Pain Medicine for a good overview without getting crazy detailed.

 

[UMichGas]

I second the Essentials of Pain Medicine recommendation above. Our program had it available for free on Clinical Key. I think it is just enough information about key things you will see in the clinic.

 

[Prof Moriarty]

Atlas of Image-Guided Spinal Procedures, by Furman
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Image-Guided-Spinal-Procedures-1e/dp/0323042996

This book is excellent. Highly recommended for an interventional rotation. Along with a few chapters from Essentials.