Pain medicine: taking it to the streets
UK PERSPECTIVE
W.A. Macrae
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is setting up a Faculty of Pain Medicine. They propose to award Fellowships of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, to those who have completed a year of advanced training in acute, chronic and cancer pain, and are assessed as competent.
Each School of Anaesthesia has a Regional Adviser responsible for training in pain medicine. The training is competency based, but the competencies are not defined yet.
All specialist registrars will be expected to do a block of training in their first two years. In our department this is eight weeks with a minimum of 30 sessions. They have to keep a logbook of cases seen and procedures performed. They have to see patients under supervision and present three cases.
Time of Presentation
Saturday 13 May 2006 - 1330-1500
