2 weeks courses are accredited with 36 CME credit hours by State Medical Council
It is a two weeks Aesculap Academy pain management fellowship where stresses has been given to the practical aspect of interventional pain management and there are hands-on mannequin practice sessions during the course. Syllabus has been designed in such a way so that participants are well trained in Interventionaal Pain Procedures and can start practice after returning back.
Eligibility: Applicant must be a medical graduate (MBBS/MD) from any recognized university. He must have completed one year residency from a recognized Hospital in the following disciplines: Anaesthesiology, Orthopaedics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Neurosurgery, and General Medicine. Desirable: Post-graduate degree/diploma in the above disciplines.
Schedule: This pain fellowship is arranged most frequently, 6 times in a year. The date of commencement, details of course & course fees are announced well in advance.
Course fee & Registration: Click here
Course fee includes working lunch during pain fellowship program. Participants need to arrange accommodation by their own. If they need low cost accommodation may contact us at +913365555506.
Special hands-on-mannequin workshop for 2 weeks course participants:
Hands on workshop on mannequin under c-arm are organised on few days during this pain management fellowship program. Interventions of back pain are highlighted. Its mandatory that all participants learn and do the following interventions indipendently:
Facet Joint inj
Medial branch block
Sacro-iliac joint inj
Trans-foraminal/ Selective nerve root inj/ Dorsal root ganglion inj
Lumber sympathetic block
Intra-discal procedure
Sacral nerve root inj
Caudal epidural block
Celiac plexus block
Stellate ganglion block
Suprascapular Nerve Block
Ganglion Impar block
Details of course:
Schedule described below is just an outline of pain fellowship
program. Actual schedule is likely to be little different according to
availability of cases.
Day 1
Reporting & Registration, Pre-course Evaluation, Pain Pathways,
Types of pain, Neuropathic pain- pathophysiology, diagnosis &
management, Pharmacotherapy of pain, Evaluation of back pain, Radiation
safety & Fluroscopic anatomy of spine.
Day 2
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions (transforaminal), USG
guided pain procedures (shoulder), Facet & SI arthropathy,
Examination of patients with Back pain, Myofascial pain syndrome,
Spondyolisthesis.
Day 3
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions (facet intraarticular
& medial branch block), USG guided pain procedures (upper limb), OA
knee, Examination of knee, Diagnosis and Treatment of RA, Diagnosis and
treatment of Spondyloarthropathy.
Day 4
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions (SI joint inj), USG
guided pain procedures (knee), Common Shoulder pain, Cervicogenic
Headache, Diagnosis and Treatment Fibromyalgia.
Day 5
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions (Caudal, S1 nerve root
inj), USG guided pain procedures (neck/stellate), Neck pain &
examination of neck, Examination of shoulder, Acupuncture.
Day 6
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions (Lumbar Sympathetic,
Rami Communicants block), Common Headache and Classification, Cluster
Headache, Migraine.
Day 7
LIVE CASES DEMONSTRATION, Doubt clearing on live cases, common hand and
leg pain, Examination of Hand and leg, Palliative care in cancer pain.
Day 8
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions, (Discography), Cancer
Pain Management, Celiac Plexus & Superior Hypogastric, Stellate
& T2-T3 sympathetic.
Day 9
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions (Cervical Facet,
Trigeminal), Trigeminal Neuralgia, Vertebroplasty, Spinal cord
Stimulator.
Day 10
OPD, Workshop on C-arm guided pain interventions (Sphenopalatine,
Thoracic Facet), CRPS, Psychological evaluation in pain, Herpetic pain
& PHN.
Day 11
Theory exam, Evaluation of Practical skills of participants, Class on physical therapy & exercises.
Day 12
Doubt Clearing, Q & A, Meditation & pain management, Certificate Distribution.