Let me get this straight . . .

[juddson]

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Do I understand correctly that a resident in Psychiatry can do a pain medicine fellowship and sit for the pain boards? If this is the case, is it a fool's wager anyway - will any pain fellowship in the country (which, as I understand it, are run by gas departments) actually take a psych resident?

Who administers the pain boards?

Judd

 

[C Fiber]

I personally know of 3 psych residents who successfully completed pain fellowships in 3 different fairly reputable pain programs. They all qualify to take the same exam given by the ABA through their own psych/neuro board.

 

[drusso]

Scott Fishman, MD is the Chief of Pain Medicine at UC Davis. He's an internist, a psychiatrist, and an anesthesiology-fellowship trained pain physician.

http://www.painfoundation.org/page.asp?file=QandA/FishmanBio.htm

Dr. Scott M. Fishman is Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of California, Davis. His medical degree is from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Formal clinical training is in Internal Medicine (Greenwich/Yale University School of Medicine) and Psychiatry (Massachusetts General/Harvard Medical School). He completed fellowship training in pain management through the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care. Dr. Fishman is Board Certified in Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine), Psychiatry (American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry) and Pain Medicine (American Board of Pain Medicine).