pain managment?

By far the most competitive fellowship, spend about half the week seeing new and chronic pain pts, the other half doing procedures more or less, such as LESI, nerve blocks, Spinal cord stimulators etc, minimal if any call. Good life for many people, if you can deal with the patient population.

 

exactly how competitive is the pain fellowship?? is it on par to getting a GI fellowship from IM?? thanks

 

First, just so there is no confusion, I havent done a pain fellowship, I only speak from my months of experience while on pain. Yes there is malingering, and pretty much any other type of psych problem you can imagine. Pain is a very subjective thing, and some people are incapacitated with pain that others would still go to work with. Its a difficult subject, however there is probably much room for growth and development of the field.

No, it is not as competitive as GI, at least from my understanding of GI fellowships. You may have trpuble getting one of the best interventional fellowships, but you should be able to get one somewhere.