Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine
AE 502M.3
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Description
Since pain is a prevalent feature in treating all patients, this rotation is intended to offer training for students interested in any clinical specialty. Students will be directly involved with the practice of contemporary multidisciplinary Pain Medicine including acute, chronic and cancer pain. Students will work with attending staff from disciplines of anesthesiology, palliative care, psychiatry, neurology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. They will follow staff, fellows and residents on daily rounds on the inpatient and service as well as in the outpatient clinic. Students will be part of the team that provides medical management of chronic and cancer pain in both the outpatient continuity care setting and the inpatient
consultation setting. Students will also be exposed to interventional procedures, such as nerve block techniques like epidural steroid injections,
sympathetic nervous system blocks (stellate ganglion blockade, lumbar sympathetic blockade, intravenous phentolamine), facet joint blockade, as well as bier blocks and intravenous lidocaine infusions. The program offers a daily mix of formal and informal educational experiences. Students are exposed to
contemporary thinking in pain treatment from multiple disciplines. Our core faculty collectively has formal training in Pain Medicine as well as Anesthesiology, Neurology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics,Psychiatry, basic science research and clinical trials.
Collaborations with almost every other service at MGH offer our students an extremely diverse experience. From the experience on this rotation, students will be expected to have gained the following skills:
1) understand basic concepts of the physiology of pain; 2) understand and be able to perform a pain oriented evaluation and physical examination;
3) understand the known diagnostic classifications of pain and their treatments; 4) understand the complex interplay of medical, psychological
and social issues with pain; and 5) understand the basic indications for and practice of analgesic therapy.
Not Available for Cross Registration
