ABR Survey on Pain Medicine Sub-certification

[freddydpt]

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Dear Radiology Colleagues,

Did you receive a survey from the ABR regarding interest in making Pain Medicine an official subspecialty of Radiology and opening up the opportunity to do Pain Management Fellowship?

I personally never received the survey, which makes me worry that others who want to pursue the sub-specialty won't be represented on the survey results. If you did not receive it and you would like to fill it out, please email: Anthony Gerdeman [email protected]. The survey takes about 2 minutes.

 

[deleted525628]

I've heard of people doing this before but I don't know too much about it. How does 4 years of radiology feed into a pain medicine fellowship?

 

[shark2000]

I've heard of people doing this before but I don't know too much about it. How does 4 years of radiology feed into a pain medicine fellowship?

How does 4 years of OB residency feed into doing OB ultrasound where you diagnose congenital multicystic kidney disease, Neuroblastoma, Tetralogy of Fallot, Congenital diaphragmatic hernia and

How does OB residency feed into diagnosis of Chiari one malformation, Absence of Corpus Callosum, Dandy Walker, choroid plexus cyst, meningomyelocele and .... Did they do neurology residency or neuroradiology before OB or it was integrated into their residency?

I personally do lots of spine pain management in my practice and never had an issue so far. When we started the market was controlled by Anesthesia and now was have a fair share of the market. The patients relatively satisfied and spine surgeons prefer to send their patients to us. Now making it an official fellowship makes it more standard education.

 

[freddydpt]

Corrion,

Chronic pain is largely a diagnostic dilemma. Some of the best (if not the best) diagnosticians in medicine are radiologists. Upwards of 50% of studies are ordered for "pain". Combine the imaging diagnostics with procedural diagnostics, the ability to block nerves/pain generators in very SPECIFIC locations using image guidance, and you can see how the radiologist fits in the grand schematic of pain management. None of the specialties who currently board in pain medicine get comprehensive training in pain. Everyone gets a piece. Radiologists just get a different piece than anesthesiologists, rehab, neuro and psych.

Hope that helps.

 

[freddydpt]

http://www.abms.org/member-boards/specialty-subspecialty-certificates/

Pain is now a subspecialty of radiology