University of Washington School of Medicine - Pain Management Senior Fellowship Programs

Scan Design Foundation Second Year Fellowship Program

Scan Design Foundation Fund for Fellow Research

When pain medicine was in its infancy, an additional six months added to an anesthesia residency allowed trainees to receive significant training in the available techniques. As there became more options, the fellowships expanded into 12 months. However, recently there has been an explosion of interventional techniques available to the practitioner. In addition, ACGME has mandated rotations in psychiatry, addiction, physical medicine and rehab, acute and chronic inpatient pain, neurology, and palliative care, leaving less than five months available for training in interventional techniques. This is a time when the techniques themselves have required a greater skill and training. The lack of training has directly led to a proliferation of poorly prepared pain physicians.

In 2009, the Foundation began a collaboration with the University of Washington Medicine - Center for Pain Relief and Discovery to offer a second year of training to their fellowship program. The second year Fellows receive training in Pelvic pain, headache management, pediatric pain, and cancer pain management.

Advancing Research to Treat Pain

In a Scan Design Foundation blog, UW researchers who were this year's Scan Design Foundation award recipients, Dr. David Marcus, Dr. Jay Parrish and Dr. Jia Zhu, are interviewed by Dr. Tonya Palermo from UW Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine. Read our blog about the UW Medicine pain research we fund.