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Pain Medicine Fellowship

The Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine offers a 1-year fellowship in pain medicine. This fellowship is ACGME accredited, and is available to individuals that have completed a ACGME-accredited residency in anesthesiology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, neurology, or psychiatry.

The Pain Medicine fellowship provides comprehensive education and training in the areas of pain medicine and palliative care in adults. Training includes acute pain, interdisciplinary chronic pain, cancer pain, palliative care, and interventional pain methods. Fellows obtain significant experience in the use of a wide variety of interventional pain modalities, and upon completion of the fellowship can qualify for recognition as qualified in performing a number of interventional procedures.

The pain medicine faculty come from a number of specialties, and many are nationally recognized pain experts. Several are active in the conduct of pain-related research, and as a result there is ample opportunity for pain medicine fellows to actively participate in scholarly activities during their fellowship.

Fellowship Application Process
The fellowship is conducted on an annual schedule starting on July 1 of each year. Fellow candidates are selected in August or September to start the following July. Applications are generally accepted for the following year starting in March, with an application deadline of July 15th of the year before the fellowship start date. Interviews are conducted in July and early August, and an interview is required.

In order to be considered, please submit::

  • An updated CV
  • Personal statement
  • Copy of medical school diploma
  • Copy of Dean's letter and medical school transcript
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • In-training examination scores, when applicable

CV and supporting documents should be sent to:

Katherine Teszner
Pain Medicine and Palliative Care Fellowship Coordinator
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
The Tuttleman Center
1840 South Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Tel: 215.893.7251; e-mail: kathrine.teszner@uphs.upenn.edu

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