We offer a focused and comprehensive 12-month training program for our fellows.
We have a strong curriculum to meet the fellow’s Acute Pain Medicine training requirements. We generally follow the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Fellowship guideline, but because this is not an ACGME-accredited fellowship yet, we freely adapt this guideline to suit the individual needs of the fellow and the institution where he or she plans to practice. The emphasis is on being able to manage any clinical acute pain situation and to establish and maintain a mature Acute Pain Service.
Mission
Our fellowship's mission is to teach cutting-edge and safe and effective pain management skills to a new and diverse generation of anesthesiologists.
Aims
- Graduate fellowship-trained physicians in acute pain management with a focus on regional anesthesia.
- Graduate consultant-level practitioners in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine capable of independent practice.
- Graduate fellows who are inspired to be lifelong learners.
Expectations
Apart from teaching fellows to become true consultants, we also emphasize academic productivity. Our fellows are expected to participate in manuscript writing and to present their work at national or international meetings.
In the past, our fellows have also contributed numerous textbook chapters, review articles, and editorials. For this, we provide ample dedicated academic time and mentoring.
To prepare fellows in critical reading of the literature, we formally introduce them to the process of evaluating manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals for publication. (We are not involved in the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, but we do consult with patients with cancer pain and acute pain situations due to or resulting in chronic pain syndromes).
By the end of your fellowship year, you should have the following skills:
- Be a true consultant in Acute and Perioperative Pain Medicine. That would mean, among other skills:
- Set up and manage an inpatient and outpatient Acute Pain Service
- Be fully equipped to use nerve stimulators and ultrasound to place single-injection and continuous peripheral, paravertebral, and neuraxial blocks
- Fully understand indications, risks, benefits, etc. of nerve blocks; when not to do blocks; and how to stay out of trouble
- Teach, “trouble-shoot,” and “rescue” blocks
- Optimally treat any form of acute pain, especially perioperative pain
- Be an expert in regional anesthesia macro-, micro-, sono- and functional anatomy:
- You will have access to cadaver dissections
- Instruction and teaching of our residents
- Consult with industry to develop new acute pain equipment
- Critically read and evaluate manuscripts submitted pre- and post-publication
- Understand the perioperative surgical issues of most surgical procedures
Each year, our faculty have been invited to speak and give workshops at local, state, national, and international meetings and Fellows are given the opportunity to travel with our faculty participants.
Our Training
Training involves both inpatient and outpatient acute and perioperative pain management.
We accept 6 Fellow/Associates per year.
As Fellow/Associates, our fellows must be qualified to receive hospital privileges to work 20% of their time as OR Anesthesiology faculty.
This allows us to ease fellows into the consultant role, and it allows us to offer Fellow/Associates a more competitive salary and to vastly improve their benefits and leave package.
Fellows are allowed 15 days (3 weeks) of vacation, 5 days (1 week) of sick leave, and 5 days (1 week) of meeting leave.
This fellowship position currently requires an active, unrestricted Florida medical license (Training license is not eligible). We suggest that you view the website for information on applying for this license. We can accept international students who have an H1 visa and can obtain a Florida medical license.
Linda Le-Wendling, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Director, Acute and Perioperative Pain Medicine Fellowship Program
Tel: (352) 846-0913
Stephen Vose, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Director, Acute and Perioperative Pain Medicine Fellowship Program
Tel: (352)273-6575
Contact the Anesthesiology Education Office for more information.
Our Team
Svetlana Chembrovich MD
Barys V Ihnatsenka MD
Linda T Le-Wendling MD
Isaac Luria M.S., M.D.
Olga (Kiki) Nin MD
Soleil Schutte M.D.
Cameron R Smith MD, PhD
Patrick J Tighe MD, MS
Richa Wardhan MD