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. 1999 May 12;52(8):1710-2.
doi: 10.1212/wnl.52.8.1710.

Pain medicine education among American neurologists: a need for improvement

B S Galer  1 , C Keran, M Frisinger
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Pain medicine education among American neurologists: a need for improvement

B S Galer et al. Neurology. .

Abstract

To assess pain medicine education, surveys were mailed to practicing neurologists (PNs) and residency program directors (PDs). Thirty percent of PNs felt adequately trained to diagnose and 20% to treat pain disorders. PNs stated that more pain education is needed for resident training (89%) and for PNs (91%). PDs ranked the importance of a pain subspecialty seventh out of eight subspecialties; only 29% reported having a neurology pain specialist on the faculty. These data strongly suggest a need to improve the pain medicine education of neurologists.

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