About Pain Medicine Consultants
Pain Medicine Consultants is the only local practice whose physicians are all pain fellowship trained at top ACGME accredited university-based programs and maintain double board certifications by the American Board of Medical Specialties. We take a comprehensive approach towards addressing your pain. You will not be seen by a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. We see all our own patients, providing you the care and service that you and your referring physician would want. See our full list of treatments and conditions, along with informative videos here. Why should you be seen by an ACGME trained pain specialist?Because it can have a huge impact on your care. If you are being referred to a pain specialist, ask your referring doctor if the pain specialist is ACGME certified as non-ACGME pain specialists have not gone through an approved, formalized training program. The reason we bring this up is that there are many local pain specialists who are not ACGME board certified, and it is your right to request to be seen by a pain specialist with formalized and approved training. Dr. Kalra, Dr. Longton, and Dr. Shinaman have this training at Harvard, Stanford, and the Mayo Clinic respectively. Pain medicine is the discipline of medicine that specializes in the management of patients suffering from acute or chronic pain, or pain in patients requiring palliative care. The management of acute and chronic pain syndromes is a complex matter involving many areas of interest and different medical disciplines. Clinical and investigative efforts are vital to the progress of the specialty. All pain specialists, regardless of their primary specialty, should be competent in pain assessment, formulation, and coordination of a multiple modality treatment plan, integration of pain treatment with primary disease management and palliative care, and interaction with other members of a multidisciplinary team. Therefore, the didactic and clinical curriculum of the pain program must address attainment of these competencies. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is a private, non-profit council that evaluates and accredits this training for the 8000+ ACGME approved programs in the country.
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