FIPP and CIPS examinations: how to qualify

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Abstract

Interventional Pain Medicine / Management (IPM) is an art, as well as medicine in itself as a whole. There has been a very wide range of the pain practitioners’ background and the instructional source of their knowledge and their skill base related to IPM. Patient safety remains to be one of the very important main objectives of IPM; hence, need of a standardized accreditation system of pain training as well as testing and examination system for someone to be considered capable to perform IPM safely cannot be over stressed.1-5

The World Institute of Pain‘s (WIP) Section of Pain Practice is a nonprofit corporation and operates as an autonomous body. It administers a psychometrically developed, practice-oriented examination in the field of pain medicine to award the successful candidates diplomas – FIPP (Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice) and CIPS (Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist) in collaboration with The World Academy of Pain Medicine Ultrasonography (WAPMU). There are specific requirements for FIPP and CIPS certification examination. The guidelines to be followed by the examiners can be downloaded from the respective websites.4,5

Published
05-09-2019
How to Cite
admin, admin, & Novy, T. (2019). FIPP and CIPS examinations: how to qualify. Anaesthesia, Pain & Intensive Care. Retrieved from https://mail.apicareonline.com/index.php/APIC/article/view/616
Section
MEDICAL EDUCATION

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