American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN); examination administered by the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) · November 2024 Pain Medicine Examination Content Outline, currently linked by ABPN and ABA and verified on 2026-10-09. The currently linked examination blueprint has no explicit version or effective date printed in its text. The workbook label maps to ABPN initial subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine through the shared ABA-administered examination; the assigned slug is preserved.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• ABPN — Pain Medicine
• ABA — Pain Medicine Exam
• Pain Medicine Examination Content Outline — November 2024
• ABA Pain Medicine Examination Content Outline — November 2024
• ABPN-linked Pain Medicine Exam Blueprint
• ABA Pain Medicine Exam Blueprint
• Cochrane Handbook — Interpreting Results and Drawing Conclusions
• IASP — Terminology
• IASP — Definitions of Chronic Pain Syndromes
• DailyMed — Gabapentin Prescribing Information
• CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022
• DailyMed — Ibuprofen Prescribing Information
• ASRA Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity Checklist — 2020, version 1.1
• ASRA/APPD — Lumbar Facet Guideline Recommendations Slide Deck
• ASRA — Facet Joint Pain
• IAEA Human Health Series No. 48 — Quality Assurance and Optimization for Fluoroscopically Guided Interventional Procedures
• VA — Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain
• VA Whole Health Library — Self-Management of Chronic Pain
• American College of Rheumatology — Fibromyalgia
• AAOS OrthoInfo — Managing Orthopaedic Surgery-Related Pain With Medications
• AAOS OrthoInfo — Cauda Equina Syndrome
• AAOS OrthoInfo — Arthritis of the Knee
• NCI — Cancer Pain PDQ, Health Professional Version
• NCI — Cancer Pain PDQ, Patient Version
• ICHD-3 — Triptan-Overuse Headache
• AAOS OrthoInfo — Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• ASRA — Buprenorphine Management in the Perioperative Period
• ASRA — Buprenorphine Treatment Recommendations for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder
• Checklist for Treatment of Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
• Anx_tuto_fibromyalgie_FAI2R-wolfe2016.pdf
• 8.2 Medication-overuse headache (MOH) - ICHD-3
• Buprenorphine Treatment Recommendations for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder
• PART_I-C.pdf
• DailyMed - ACETYLCYSTEINE injection, solution
• 207916Orig1s000OtherR.pdf
• 2.2 Frequent episodic tension-type headache - ICHD-3
• 13.1 Pain attributed to a lesion or disease of the trigeminal nerve - ICHD-3