Analyzing Trends in the Pain Fellowship Match – A Survey of Program Directors
Increasing compensation in primary residency specialty and declining pain reimbursements were the two most significant perceived contributors to the recent decline in interest in pain fellowship to resident trainees. Pain medicine is now attracting a more diverse applicant pool with a decrease in anesthesiology applicants and an increase in PM&R, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry applicants. Future pain fellows' increased variety of training backgrounds may present an opportunity to critically assess the current pain medicine curriculum to suit the needs of a more diverse cohort.
Authors
- Shravani Durbhakula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5335-8298)
- Scott G. Pritzlaff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6870-160X)
- Michael E Schatman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1019-0413)
- Daniel Pak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5743-3741)
- Neel Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2761-7903)
- Jeremy Jueng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2362-7642)
- Sayed Emal Wahezi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3720-6443)
- Amitabh Gulati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1654-8639)
- Miles Day
Institutions
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- Montefiore Medical Center (US)
- University of Miami (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- New York University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Pain Research
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2147/jpr.s496104
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.18