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Pain medicine education among American neurologists: a need for improvement
B S Galer1, C Keran, M Frisinger
1Institute for Education and Research in Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Department of Pain Medicine & Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY 10003, USA. bgaler@bethisraelny.org
Abstract:
To assess pain medicine education, surveys were mailed to practicing neurologists (PNs) and residency program directors (PDs). Thirty percent of PNs felt adequately trained to diagnose and 20% to treat pain disorders. PNs stated that more pain education is needed for resident training (89%) and for PNs (91%). PDs ranked the importance of a pain subspecialty seventh out of eight subspecialties; only 29% reported having a neurology pain specialist on the faculty. These data strongly suggest a need to improve the pain medicine education of neurologists.