Fellowship electives

[Frazier]

Hi folks,

Does anyone have good recommendations for favorite electives during fellowship?
My program has slots for three 2-week rotations -- it is a large tertiary center with a lot of services (i.e. plenty of options).
I imagine there are pearls and valuable skills to take away from nearly all available rotations.
In your experience, any particularly high-yield to the practice of HPM?

I'm thinking addictions, pain, .... spiritual? psych?

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[Whatyousay]

Pain management - good to see a variety of non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management, and some of the interventions are tested on boards, I believe. The pain management doctors I worked with also used quite a few partial opioid agonists and non-opiates that I previously had no exposure to

Addiction - I think it's incredibly important to understand how to recognize and approach addiction, substance abuse, etc., given the high-risk nature of opiate prescribing. Was very useful to see how other physicians managed true anatomic pain and addiction concurrently.