pain management

[engineer]

does anyone know if the pain market is saturated in southern cali? If a psychiatry resident gets a pain fellowship, do you think that it would be easy to get a job?

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[hawkslo]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what's the deal with Psych residents getting a Pain fellowship? Is this common? Can they perform the same array of procedures that an Anesthesia resident can?

 

[Tenesma]

first of all, it is very difficult for a psych. resident to get into an interventional pain fellowship.... And those that happen to get in, very few if any actually do any procedures whatsoever... in fact, most of them are quickly scared away by it, and instead end up doing psychopharm management.

 

[UTSouthwestern]

Many pain programs that accept non-anesthesiologists to their program require that the applicant do a year of anesthesiology as well. That is a disincentive to some, although I have heard of a couple of residents using it as a "backdoor" into anesthesiology as they asked for and were granted the opportunity to complete their anesthesiology residency after their pain management fellowship.