title: Pain medicine education among American neurologists: a need for improvement.
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.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Education and Research in Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Department of Pain Medicine & Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY 10003, USA. bgaler@bethisraelny.org
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Galer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Keran
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frisinger
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D009462:Neurology; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires