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Pain Medicine Training: A Call for Reformation - Part 1

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If pain was a two-year fellowship, 80% would not apply.

Pain medicine fellowship directors from Montefiore and UC Davis discuss the critical shortcomings of the current one-year fellowship model, revealing alarming data about declining applicant numbers and program fill rates. The panel debates whether pain medicine should become its own residency, examines the challenges of teaching fellows from diverse medical backgrounds, and argues the crisis extends beyond procedures to include clinical skills, imaging, insurance navigation, and research capacity.

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A clear look at why pain fellowship recruitment is harder than the headline suggests.

This piece treats pain fellowship training as a pipeline problem, not just an education problem. It starts with the poll result, then follows the reasons people hesitate: the appeal of procedures, the different starting points of anesthesiology and physiatry trainees, and the…

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When you want the real bottlenecks behind pain-fellowship recruitment.

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