With the population growing older, it is crucial for medical specialties—such as anesthesia and pain medicine—to prevent staffing issues as best as possible. Unfortunately, a new study shows that fellowship applications to these specialties decreased over the past five years, raising concerns about the future of patient care (Pain Pract 2025;25[1]:e13441).
In an interview with Anesthesiology News, Scott G. Pritzlaff, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology and the director of