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Heard a rumor today from a highly placed source that Dr. Furman's fellowship was in negotiations to possibly affiliate with NUMC on Long Island
there's something wrong when a fellowship's sponsoring institution is hundreds of miles away.
there used to be a fellowship in birmingham, alabama, but the sponsoring institution was in kansas city.
do these guys just get on the horn and call everyone who will offer to "host" them so they can maintain their status? kind of takes the whole "interdisciplinary" nature out of the pain fellowship when you have to see cancer patients who are a few time zones away.....
Don't the current ACGME requirements make the whole notion of office based PM&R "pain" fellowships kind of pointless?
Why not just turn them into Interventional Spine fellowships, but with higher standards and tighter oversight, like the Orthopods and Neurosurgeons do with their fellowships?
Perhaps require that procedures by taught according to consensus "guidelines", but not to the exclusion of other accepted "guidelines", with mandatory "exposure" to certain procedures if "experience" is not available.
Heard a rumor today from a highly placed source that Dr. Furman's fellowship was in negotiations to possibly affiliate with NUMC on Long Island
I don't know. Our board sponsors "pain medicine" as a subspecialty. It would be nice if we actually still trained people in it.