Hi, I am a recent graduate from occupational medicine. I am currently doing occupational medicine as an attending and I am a few years out of my residency.
I have become interested in pain medicine as I want to enter a more procedural field and I have heard of some of my occupational medicine colleagues (without board certification in other specialties) entering ACGME accredited pain medicine fellowships which has prompted me to look further into how to enter the field of pain medicine.
I wonder what could be a way for me to gain clinical experience or even observership/research experience in pain medicine for a LoR. I was thinking of contacting my prior residency or my medical school to see if they can give be an exposure but I would like to see if there might be other options.
Also, I wonder how board certification works for my specialty as my specialty is not one of specialties that are eligible to be board-certified under ABMS.
I would greatly appreciate an advice on how to gain some exposures in pain medicine as someone out of medical education and it would be thankful for someone to have words on how to prepare for pain medicine fellowship application.
Thank you in advance.
I have become interested in pain medicine as I want to enter a more procedural field and I have heard of some of my occupational medicine colleagues (without board certification in other specialties) entering ACGME accredited pain medicine fellowships which has prompted me to look further into how to enter the field of pain medicine.
I wonder what could be a way for me to gain clinical experience or even observership/research experience in pain medicine for a LoR. I was thinking of contacting my prior residency or my medical school to see if they can give be an exposure but I would like to see if there might be other options.
Also, I wonder how board certification works for my specialty as my specialty is not one of specialties that are eligible to be board-certified under ABMS.
I would greatly appreciate an advice on how to gain some exposures in pain medicine as someone out of medical education and it would be thankful for someone to have words on how to prepare for pain medicine fellowship application.
Thank you in advance.