Pain medicine education among American neurologists: A need for improvement
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Article 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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Received: December 8, 1998
Accepted: February 13, 1999
Published online: May 1, 1999
Published in print: May 1, 1999
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