Intraoperative monitoring ...

[mohdil23]

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Hi,

Is having one month of IONM training during neurophysiology fellowship considered enough to practice IONM or should I get more exposure ?

Thanks

 

[deathmerchant]

Hi,

Is having one month of IONM training during neurophysiology fellowship considered enough to practice IONM or should I get more exposure ?

Thanks

I don't think time matters. There is no board or anything for IONM . If you feel competent then you can do it, at your own risk.

 

[Telamir]

There is actually a board for it, I think. The ABCN (american board of clinical neurophysiology) offers "tracks" such as LTM (epilepsy monitoring), ICU EEG, etc. One of the tracks if I am not mistaken is IOM.

 

[deathmerchant]

There is actually a board for it, I think. The ABCN (american board of clinical neurophysiology) offers "tracks" such as LTM (epilepsy monitoring), ICU EEG, etc. One of the tracks if I am not mistaken is IOM.

Ok I stand corrected. I didn't know- thanks!

But may be you could still do it without boards. Im guessing people don't take all tracks (LTM, ICU for eg) when they finish fellowship and still probably do both

 

[JBM16BYU]

I realize this is an old thread, but regarding the same topic of intraoperative neuromonitoring, I have seen both neurologists and PM&R perform IONM. How does a PM&R physician gain the experience enough to perform IONM, since the few IONM fellowships, I believe, do not take PM&R?

 

[Phantom Spike]

I am interested in this topic as well. On other threads, it was suggested that board-certified neurophysiologists, even with little-to-no intraoperative monitoring training, could get IOM jobs, and the companies hiring them would train them. From what I understand, hospitals require ABPN Neurophysiology or Epilepsy certification for IOM, hence companies are willing to hire and train such physicians. Is this accurate? I don't believe PM&R physicians can be newly-credentialed to perform IOM anymore; those who are doing it must have been grandfathered in in the distant past (again, please correct me if I'm wrong).