Fellowship, Pain Fellow Program

 

Fellowship in Pain Medicine

The Comprehensive Pain Center, at Oregon Health & Science University offers three, 1-year ACGME accredited fellowship positions in pain medicine. The fellowship provides comprehensive training in acute, cancer, and chronic pain management.

We offer 12 interviews per educational year for three fellowship positions. Interviews are offered late July through late September. Interviews and positions are offered on a rolling basis and can fill up prior to our deadline in September. We suggest applying as early as possible, but not before May 1st.

Applying for the Fellowship

We will accept applications for the 2010 Academic Year from May 1, 2010 ~ September 29, 2010 (or until all interviews have been offered - whichever comes first). Application materials received outside of these dates will not be eligible for consideration. Click here for an Application.

Please do not have letters of recommendation sent until after you have sent in your completed application packet.

Please send completed application packets to:

Kristi Walker
Resource Specialist
Fellowship Coordinator
Comprehensive Pain Center
3303 SW Bond Ave
CH4P
Portland, OR 97239
(P)503-494-7808
(F)503-494-7635
 

Goals of the Fellowship

The basic goal of the Fellowship Program is for the Fellow to be exposed to the advanced interdisciplinary evaluation and management of acute, chronic, and cancer-related pain, and to procedures related to the treatment of these patients.

Upon completion of the Fellowship, the Fellow should:

1. Understand advanced anatomical and pathophysiological mechanisms involved in both common and uncommon chronic malignant and non-malignant pain problems.
2. Be able to evaluate and manage inpatient consultations for parenteral/oral opioid conversion, and complex malignant and non-malignant pain problems.
3. Be able to evaluate and manage acute, postoperative pain. This experience includes postoperative epidural analgesia management, as well as other forms of regional infusion therapies.
4. Have an advanced knowledge of pain management related pharmacological principles, including responsible use of controlled substances.
5. Be able to evaluate patients appropriately for and perform procedures involved in advanced pain management techniques (e.g. lumbar, thoracic, and cervical epidural access and injection techniques; selective nerve root blocks; trigger point injections; neurolytic techniques, including radio frequency ablation techniques; neuroaugmentation techniques, including spinal cord stimulation; chronic neuraxial drug delivery techniques, including implanted intrathecal drug administration systems.)
6. Gain experience in the principles of interdisciplinary pain management, including psychological and physiotherapy evaluations and treatment options.
7. Have an advanced understanding of the role of the pain management physician in the palliative care of patients with end-stage disease.
8. Be able to function as an educator of these principles and techniques.

At the end of the Fellowship, the Fellow should be able to function as an independent, Board Eligible Pain Management Physician and Consultant, competent in the interdisciplinary evaluation and treatment (including advanced interventional techniques) of complicated and routine pain problems.

About Us
We provide multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of the full spectrum of ambulatory pain patients. In order to do this effectively, we have a facility and staff dedicated to pain management.

We know that ongoing pain changes a person's life in all areas, and we are here to help. Our approach is individualized, because we know every person experiences pain in a different way. Our team of pain specialists looks at the whole person to evaluate your pain problem and develop a plan with you to improve your quality of life and pain control. We are unique because we bring together a dedicated group of professionals to provide state of the art pain assessment and treatment, research into new treatments, and coordination with your health care providers.

As the only academic pain center in Oregon we bring expertise to pediatric patients, those with cancer, those with pain from nerve damage, back pain, and many other conditions. Working with our surgical colleagues we help make surgery as painless as possible with our inpatient pain services. We provide consultation to patients and physicians throughout the northwest as well as here in Portland. And we are here to provide leadership and education in the field of pain medicine for our patients, our colleagues, and our region.

Brett R. Stacey, MD
Medical Director

Fellowship FAQs
 

Q: Can I apply for a fellowship at the Comprehensive Pain Center on-line? A: Our application is available on-line but we do not currently accept electronic applications. The application (and supporting documents) needs to be mailed to the following address: Kristi Walker Resource Specialist Fellowship Coordinator Comprehensive Pain Center 3303 SW Bond Ave CH4P Portland, OR 97239 (P)503-494-7808 (F)503-494-7635   Q: When do you begin accepting applications for the fellowship program? A: Applications can be sent in at any time, however, we do not begin interviewing until late summer. Generally most applications show up between May and August. Q: If I am selected for an interview, when will I be interviewed? A: We begin interviewing in August and will schedule interviews into October if necessary. Ideally, we would like to offer positions to prospective fellows as soon as November. Q: Do you have information about salary and benefits? A: This information and more can be found at the OHSU Graduate Medical Education website.

Fellowship Handbook
To view a copy of the OHSU Pain Management Fellow Handbook click here

Contact Us
Please address all questions to: Kristi Walker