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  • Title: Current status of pain medicine training in anesthesiology and pain medicine residency programs in university hospitals of Korea: a survey of residents' opinions.
    Author: Lee JY, Kim SH, Yoo Y, Choi SS, Kim SH, Park YJ, Byeon GJ, Kim YD, Kim JE, Kang SH, Kim J, Kim MJ, Park HJ.
    Journal: Reg Anesth Pain Med; 2020 Apr; 45(4):283-286. PubMed ID: 31988268.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: In Korea, anesthesiologists are expected to be mainstream pain medicine (PM) practitioners. However, anesthesiology and pain medicine (APM) residency programs mostly emphasize anesthesia learning, leading to insufficient PM learning. Therefore, this study evaluated the current status of PM training in APM residency programs in 10 Korean university hospitals. METHODS: Overall, 156 residents undergoing APM training participated anonymously in our survey, focusing on PM training. We assessed the aim, satisfaction status, duration, opinion on duration, desired duration, weaknesses of the training programs and plans of residents after graduating. We divided the residents into junior (first and second year) and senior (third and fourth year). Survey data were compared between groups. RESULTS: Senior showed significantly different level of satisfaction grade than did junior (p=0.026). Fifty-seven (81.4%) residents in junior and forty (46.5%) residents in senior underwent PM training for ≤2 months. Most (108; 69.2%) residents felt that the training period was too short for PM learning and 95 (60.9%) residents desired a training period of ≥6 months. The most commonly expressed weakness of the training was low interventional opportunity (29.7%), followed by short duration (26.6%). After residency, 80 (49.1%) residents planned to pursue a fellowship. CONCLUSIONS: Dissatisfaction with PM training was probably due to a structural tendency of the current program towards anesthesia training and insufficient clinical experience, which needs to be rectified, with a change in PM curriculum.
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