Specialty Stories | Medical School Headquarters | Premed | Medical Student

Session 39 Dr. Bunty Shah is an academic Pain Medicine Physician at Penn State. He completed his residency training in Anesthesiology. He shares the specialty with us. Back in Episode 17, we interviewed a community-based pain medicine doc who came from a radiology background. So you get to hear some differences between these two episodes. Bunty has been out of fellowship training now for two years. He now serves as the Associate Program Director for the Fellowship at Penn State. If you haven’t yet, please check out all our other episodes on http://mededmedia.com/ (MedEd Media) Network. [01:33] An Interest in Pain Medicine When he was in his surgery rotation in medical school in his third year, there was no actual anesthesiology rotation. But it was built into the surgery rotation. It was by chance that he actually encountered anesthesia during his surgery rotation. He met an anesthesiologist during third year rotation in medical school. He learned that anesthesiology was all about an interplay between ph