Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship Program

The Pain Medicine Fellowship at Westchester Medical Center is an ACGME-accredited program.

The Fellow will attend dedicated didactic lectures covering a wide range of topics related to the practice of pain medicine, which are designed to cover all pertinent topics as outlined by the ACGME. In addition, the fellow is expected to attend the Pain Quality Council to learn about quality assurance, Case Conferences to discuss challenging or unique cases, Journal Club to review historically important and current literature, and departmental Grand Rounds.

The Pain Medicine Program at Westchester Medical Center treats a wide range of conditions. In addition, attendings regularly perform a variety of procedures. For more information, please visit WMCHealth Physicians Advanced Physician Services Pain Management page.

At Westchester Medical Center, Pain Medicine fellows will rotate through a wide range of services, including three months of inpatient pain (which includes consultation on pediatric patients), three months of outpatient pain, three months of Interventions, and two weeks of acute pain. Additional specialty rotations include two weeks of neurology, two weeks of psychiatry, two weeks of physical medicine and rehabilitation, two weeks of palliative care, one week of neuroradiology, and one week of surgery.

Fellows are required to participate in scholarly activities during their fellowship. This may include Grand Rounds presentations, case reports, preparation and publication of review articles, book chapters, manuals for teaching or clinical practice, and clinical research investigations. In addition, fellows are encouraged to present abstracts and interesting cases at major professional meetings.

Fellows will receive feedback on performance from faculty members via a confidential online system. In addition, fellows will receive feedback from multi-source evaluations by faculty, peers, residents, and nurses. This information is shared with the Clinical Competency Committee, and used to assess the fellow’s Milestones. With this information, the program director can meet with the Fellows to provide formative written feedback at least semi-annually resulting in a written summative evaluation.