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Guidelines for anaesthesiologist specialist training in pain medicine

SECTION AND BOARD OF ANAESTHESIOLOGY1, European Union of Medical Specialists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2007

A. J. Cunningham
Affiliation:
Beaumont Hospital, Department of Anaesthesia, Beamont Road, Dublin, Ireland
J. T. A. Knape*
Affiliation:
University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Perioperative Care and Emergency Care, Department of Anaesthesiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
H. Adriaensen
Affiliation:
Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Department of Anaesthesiology, Wilrijkstraat, Edegem, Belgium
W. P. Blunnie
Affiliation:
Mater Hospital, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Dublin, Ireland
E. Buchser
Affiliation:
Hôpital de Zone, Service d’Anesthesiologie, Morges, Switzerland
Z. Goldik
Affiliation:
Carmel Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Haifa, Israel
W. Ilias
Affiliation:
Krankenhaus der Barmherzige Bruder, Department of Anaesthesiology, Grosse Mohrengasse, Vienna, Austria
V. Paver-Erzen
Affiliation:
University Medical Centre, Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology, Zaloska, Ljubljana, Slovenia
*
Correspondence to: Johannes T. A. Knape, Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Perioperative Care and Emergency Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, P. O. Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: j.t.a.knape@umcutrecht.nl; Tel: +31302506716; Fax: +31302541828
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Summary

The Section and Board of Anaesthesiology of the European Union of Medical Specialists aims (EUMS/UEMS) at harmonization of training of anaesthesiologists and at improvement of patient care throughout Europe. Pain medicine is considered to be an area of expertise in anaesthesiology although exclusivity is not claimed. The Section and Board has approved both a core syllabus for pain medicine to be part of the specialist training in anaesthesiology and an additional qualification in pain medicine following the completion of a 5 yr basic specialty training in anaesthesiology. These proposals were prepared by the Working Party on Pain Medicine of the Section and Board. It considers a multidisciplinary approach to pain to contribute to quality in care and has taken the initiative to set up a Multidisciplinary Joint Committee on Pain Medicine within the EUMS/UEMS, for which these guidelines define the area of expertise of anaesthesiology.

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Copyright
Copyright © European Society of Anaesthesiology 2007

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Footnotes

1

The areas of expertise of Anaesthesiology are: Perioperative Anaesthesia Care, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Pain Medicine and Reanimation

*

Working party on Pain Medicine

References

1 The areas of expertise of Anaesthesiology are: Perioperative Anaesthesia Care, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Pain Medicine and Reanimation

* Working party on Pain Medicine