It is designed to cover the core curriculum for professional education in pain. Each fellow may spend up to two weeks observing a nearby private pain practice. This office is closed during weekends and most major holidays. Fellows along with the residents rotating onto the pain service manage the acute pain service under attending supervision. Call is always taken from home and typically is not usually busy.
Fellows have no operating room anesthesiology duties nor call.
The University Center for Pain Medicine and Rehabilitation at Hermannenjoys close ties with other institutions within the Texas Medical Center. In particular, we work closely with the M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital pain groups, both anesthesiology and neuro-oncology. Also, the Orofacial Group of the University of Texas Dental School, and the Restorative Neurology group at Baylor University are major referral sources. The Texas Medical Center contains the largest collection of individual hospitals and medical professionals in the world. As such, there is access to many world experts resulting in exciting potentials for both basic and clinical research.