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Clinical Experience - Pain Medicine Fellowship Program
Fellows rotate through pain clinics at Ochsner Baptist, Back and Spine Clinic. Their main responsibilities are new patient evaluations and existing patient management. Fellows are expected to apply multidisciplinary approach for patient management including medication management, physical therapy, interventional treatment and psychological evaluations and treatment. Fellows are encouraged to participate in ongoing research projects and clinical trials. Under Faculty supervision, fellows will perform ultrasound-guided procedures aiming to treat a variety of musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain conditions.
Fluoroscopic -guided Procedures are performed at the state of the art procedural suite at Ochsner Baptist. Fellows will be exposed to a variety of interventional techniques ranging from simple nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation and the latest implantable technologies such as spinal cord stimulation trials and implants, intrathecal drug delivery and kyphoplasty. Spinal Cord Stimulation Implants and other surgeries such as kyphoplasty are performed at the a Ochsner Baptist Hospital main ORs.
Fellows will oversee the inpatient consultation service at Ochsner Main Campus. Fellows will also rotate though neurology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, acute pain and palliative care services.
Why Choose Ochsner?
Ochsner Health System is Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system with 40 hospitals and more than 100 health centers and urgent care centers. We are one of the largest non-university-based physician-training centers in the US.
U.S. News & World Report named Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans the Best Hospital in Louisiana for the 12th consecutive year.
Ochsner Medical Center is recognized as among the Top Hospitals in the nation by Healthgrades, US News and World Report, and Truven Health Analytics.