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I rarely post here so apologies for posting only when help is needed. I'm a partner in a busy private practice anesthesia group in Las Vegas. I've been where I am since 2003, after completing a peds anesthesia fellowship. To be honest, it has gotten a bit dull. Here in Vegas, anesthesia pretty much follows surgeons. I am on staff at 12 plus hospitals and surgery centers. Hospitals here are trying to switch to Anesthesia/CRNA employees/contractors. Sooner or later they will succeed. Anyway, my reasons for considering pain are
1) OR anesthesia is getting very boring. There is zero intellectual challenge in it for me. I like most of my surgeons. I like working with most of the OR staff. But the boredom is bothering me.
2) I like the procedures pain specialists do. I see them when I do sedation cases for pain procedures. I like the closer patient interaction. As a Med student/Resident, I hated clinic. Now I'm beginning to miss it. Yes, a lot of pain patients are annoying, but so are a lot of PEOPLE in general.
3) Sooner or later, I'm going to have to leave town and set up practice somewhere else (CRNAs are fine if they are already there, but in a town where most of us do our own cases, it means some anesthesiologists are going to have to leave.) If I'm starting over anyway, I'd just as soon do it now when I'm younger and have more options.
But at this point I haven't applied for anything for years. I have no idea how to do it and haven't written a resume. I have no idea if Pain fellowships would even consider someone out of residency/peds fellowship for so long. I have no publications. Should I consider unaccredited fellowships?
Any advice would be helpful.
1) OR anesthesia is getting very boring. There is zero intellectual challenge in it for me. I like most of my surgeons. I like working with most of the OR staff. But the boredom is bothering me.
2) I like the procedures pain specialists do. I see them when I do sedation cases for pain procedures. I like the closer patient interaction. As a Med student/Resident, I hated clinic. Now I'm beginning to miss it. Yes, a lot of pain patients are annoying, but so are a lot of PEOPLE in general.
3) Sooner or later, I'm going to have to leave town and set up practice somewhere else (CRNAs are fine if they are already there, but in a town where most of us do our own cases, it means some anesthesiologists are going to have to leave.) If I'm starting over anyway, I'd just as soon do it now when I'm younger and have more options.
But at this point I haven't applied for anything for years. I have no idea how to do it and haven't written a resume. I have no idea if Pain fellowships would even consider someone out of residency/peds fellowship for so long. I have no publications. Should I consider unaccredited fellowships?
Any advice would be helpful.