Pain Medicine Fellowship

Didactics

Subspecialty Conferences: Conferences covering didactic material outlined in the pain medicine curriculum are presented each week. These conferences are typically given by the multidisciplinary pain faculty. The pain fellows are also expected to lecture as part of their overall training experience. Guest faculty from other disciplines also lecture (e.g. orofacial pain, pediatric pain) when appropriate to cover curricular topics. Fellows are also invited to attend regularly scheduled resident didactic presentations in the department of anesthesiology.

Case Discussion Conferences: Cases are presented on a quarterly basis by the pain fellows in collaboration with a multidisciplinary pain faculty member. Cases of interest are chosen as they become available over the year of patient care in which the fellow is involved.

Journal Club: Journal articles are presented on a quarterly basis by the pain fellows in collaboration with one of the pain faculty. Papers of interest are chosen from journals in fellow library or found by accessing journal information by literature search online. Fellows also have the opportunity to attend regularly scheduled journal club presentations in the department of anesthesiology.

Facilities

The principle site for fellowship training is the interventional pain clinic at University of Kentucky Clinic South. This clinic is a multidisciplinary pain management center with emphasis on interventional pain management approaches. An average of 2,800 clinic visits and 1,500 procedures are performed annually. Training is also conducted at UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Acute pain as well as perioperative anesthesia are taught at the main UK hospital. Palliative medicine training is conducted at UK as well as Bluegrass Care Navigators.