Typical Day in Life of a Pain Fellow...

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For those of you that are in a pain fellowship or have completed one already, please share your daily schedules, call frequency, etc. This will be a good thread for those interested...

 

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For those of you that are in a pain fellowship or have completed one already, please share your daily schedules, call frequency, etc. This will be a good thread for those interested...

In Clinic:
Arrival at 0730am
Departure 16:30pm, rarely 17:30
Few breaks or lunch
Some days we do office visits/consults other days are dedicated procedure days

On-call (frequency 2-3 per month)
Cover acute (the main downside of my program) and chronic pain
Arrival at 0615 for thoracic and lumbar epidurals (usually supervise CA2/CA3)
0700 Breakfast
0745 Round on acute patients
11am-13:00 lunch
Afternoon essentially free as residents carry pager during the day. Have to pinch-hit every now and then if there are lots of consults
1700 pick up the overnight pager, sleep when you can
0700 go home and enjoy the post call day off

 

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In Clinic:
Arrive 7:30A
Review schedule
Procedures and new outpatient consults start at 8A
Lunch at 12-1P. Try to round on chronic pain inpatients during this time with pain nurses.
Procedures and new outpatient consults from 1P to 3:30P
Go Home

On Call:
All call is home call
No acute pain coverage for pain fellows
Carry pager one week at a time, every other week.
Cover post pain procedure patients only and available from home after 5pm for chronic pain inpatients if the resident and attending on call need advise
Round on chronic pain inpatients IF needed on weekends.

 

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