Regional anesthesia fellows will be provided with training for all forms of peripheral and neuraxial anesthesia including single injections and continuous catheters, as well as for managing patients with acute pain in the wards.

Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Program

Description:

Our fellowship program is an advanced postgraduate subspecialty training. However not yet accredited, it’s based on ACGME Program Requirements for Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine. The main goal of this fellowship program is to train the fellows to become highly skilled in the field of Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine through a comprehensive educational program.

Hamad General Hospital is the main site of our program however our fellows might be requested to cover clinical duties in other hospitals of Hamad Medical Corporation. 

Our curriculum is based on evidence-based knowledge and also guidelines published by the main scientific societies in the field of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine.

Our teaching process is based on continuous parallel training. Hence, every week, the clinical fellow will perform nerve blocks in the block room, will do the round for acute pain service, and will give anesthesia in some operating rooms with a high potential to perform neuraxial or peripheral nerve blocks.

Our program started with the enrollment of the first batch, on 1st July 2014. It’s a three years program and we are enrolling one fellow every year. We have trained, so far, many fellows, and some of them are now core faculty members.

Goals:

By the end of his/her fellowship program;

• The fellow will learn how to assess the risk, to define the indication, to establish the plan of care, to prepare the patient and to perform the different techniques.
• The fellow will be expected to develop and put to use the skills acquired as such that regional anesthesia and perioperative pain control become an integral component of his/her future practice.
• The fellow will learn how to teach regional anesthesia and perioperative pain medicine and will be involved in the teaching process of our residents, interns, and medical students
• The fellow will learn how to audit his own activity for practice-based learning and must participate in the continuous and holistic auditing of our practice and teaching.
• The fellow will learn how to design and conduct a research project and will be involved in at least one research project.