Pain Medicine Career Stories
What does a career in Pain Medicine look like?
These are some career stories of doctors practising in Pain Medicine. Click on each tile to read more.

I graduated from Southampton University in 1999 and completed my pre-registration training which included general practice within the Dorset region. It was during this time that I decided to pursue a career in hospital medicine...

I am a new consultant in Pain Medicine in leafy Kent. I initially wanted to be a scientist and went to Imperial College to study biochemistry specialising in molecular neurobiology. I always found ion channels and receptors fascinating...

I graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1998 and by the time I had completed my internship (FY1 year) and spent a year in a Trauma and Emergency centre in South Africa I left and came to England to pursue a career in Intensive Care Medicine...

I graduated from St Andrews University in 2001 and completed my medical training at the University of Manchester in 2003. I am now in my final year of anaesthetic training in the Northwest deanery and I'm about to undertake an advanced pain year fellowship...
I consider myself amongst the cohort of trainees who has seen more changes and upheavals in anaesthetic and pain training than has ever been witnessed in such a short period of time...
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