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Pain Management Fellowship

Our faculty members have a wide variety of training backgrounds and special interests in pain management – including medical, psychological and invasive treatment modalities.

The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine - Scott & White Pain Management Fellowship Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Our one-year fellowship is an integrated, multidisciplinary pain management fellowship that includes common and advanced interventional techniques as well as interdisciplinary, acute, chronic and cancer pain management on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

We accept two pain management fellows per year.

Curriculum

Our fellowship functions in a multidisciplinary capacity, integrating the disciplines of neurosurgery, neurology, psychiatry, oncology and physical medicine. Anesthesiology residents in their clinical anesthesia years will rotate through the pain management center along with residents from other medical specialties and medical students from the Texas A&M College of Medicine.

Our pain management program is focused on interventional pain management and includes extensive training in:

  • Peripheral nerve blocks
  • Neuraxial blocks
  • Neurolytic procedures
  • Radiofrequency techniques
  • Subarachnoid and epidural administration of narcotics and local anesthetics
  • Spinal cord stimulation

Our faculty members have a wide variety of training backgrounds and special interests in pain management. They employ a balanced mix of medical, psychological and invasive treatment modalities.

Fellows are required to rotate through the following services:

  • Chronic pain management (core rotation, nine months)
  • Waco pain clinic (one month)
  • Killeen pain clinic (one month)
  • Temple pain clinic (seven months)
  • Neurology (two weeks)
  • Cancer pain and palliative medicine (two weeks)
  • Psychiatry for the pain specialist (two weeks)
  • Physical medicine and rehabilitation (two weeks)
  • Acute pain and regional anesthesia (two weeks)
  • Neurosurgery (two weeks)
  • Anesthesiology for the non-anesthesiologist (as needed)

Educational programs within the fellowship include:

  • Monthly targeted board review seminars
  • Monthly quality assurance conferences
  • Quarterly journal clubs
  • Annual research conference
  • Weekly conferences where institutional experts, residents, and fellows present specific topics relevant to pain management including psychiatry radiology, neurology, rheumatology, oncology and neurosurgery

  • Train at one of U.S. News & World Report's top hospitals in Texas

    Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple is a 640-bed teaching and research hospital with a Level I trauma center.

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How to Apply

We use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) to electronically accept fellowship applications, letters of recommendations, dean’s letters, transcripts and other credentials directly from your medical school. We also participate in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).

Deadline for applications is May 1.

Visit ERAS to apply

Application Requirements

In order to be considered for the program, applicants must provide:

  • Personal statement
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Three original letters of recommendation
  • USMLE score report
  • Most recent in-training exam score, if applicable
  • Medical school transcript
  • Medical school dean’s letter
Learn more about Baylor Scott & White's housestaff appointment eligibility, including guidelines for international medical graduates.

Contact Us

Amy Sanders
Program Administrator
Phone: 254.724.5306
Amy.Sanders@BSWHealth.org

Pain Management Fellowship
Baylor Scott & White Health
2401 S. 31st. St.
MS-20-D304
Temple, TX 76508

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Compensation and Benefits

In addition to competitive stipends, we offer our fellows a full menu of employee benefits. We help offset the cost of many of these benefits; others are options you can choose to pay for yourself.

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As the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States, Baylor Scott & White Health includes 48 hospitals, more than 900 patient care sites, more than 6,000 active physicians and more than 40,000 employees.

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