Pain Fellowship ?

[kindredspirit]

I completed my residency in PM&R and have found that many of the jobs out there are looking for pain/spine fellowship trained Physiatrist to do interventional procedures. I interviewed for one position, that I was very interested in however, they were specifically looking for someone with experience in chronic pain/opiate med mgmt rather than interventional. Is there a fellowship that would be more suited to learning the "non-interventional" aspects of pain mgmt? I am not interested in doing interventional however, I would like get a more indebth exposure to the various issues dealing with chronic pain. How would one recommend obtaining experience in this area?

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[PMR 4 MSK]

Any pain fellowship should be as much, or more focused on non-interventional pain management that interventional. Anyone who is fellowship-trained should be able to handle every aspect of pain, med management included.

I would not recommend any job where they want you just to do med management, however. Being only an opioid scripter is often no different than being a drug dealer.

 

[kindredspirit]

This position was at Kaiser. They had someone else doing the interventional stuff and wanted the Physician in this position to deal with the med mgmt aspect.