Secretary's Message

Dear All
The Indian Society of Pain Clinicians ISPC is a registered body under the Society’ act 1846 with Registration Number– 65/2015-16.
Though there was already an ‘Indian Society for Study of Pain ISSP’ working in India since 1985; after the institution of first Formal education course in the form of PDCC at Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India by none other than the living legend of Pain Medicine Prof. Virendra Rastogi, a need was acutely felt to have another niche platform to represent, protect and further the cause of Pain Medicine and formally trained super-specialist Pain Physicians. Finally, in year 2015, ‘Indian Society of Pain Clinicians ISPC’ was borne and registered at Varanasi under the leadership of Prof Virendra Rastogi as Founder President ISPC. The same year, in 2015 the first and inaugural conference of ISPC was held at IMS BHU, Varanasi. Consecutively annual National conferences were held at different institutions of repute till 2020 when COVID pandemic struck the world and for next three years, annul conferences couldn’t be organised considering the safety of the attendees. ISPCCOn 2023 was held at KGMU Lucknow . The next ISPCCon will be held at AIIMS Rishikesh from September 13th to 15 th.

The mandate of Indian Society of Pain Clinicians ISPC is

• To promote ‘Formal in-house’ training in the field of Pain Medicine.
• To pursue for the recognition of Pain Medicine as a super-specialty stream of modern medicine by National Medical Commission NMC, the erstwhile Medical Council of India MCI, the regulatory body of modern medical education and training in India.
• To generate awareness regarding the Pain Medicine among general public and medical practitioners.
• To protect the rights of formally trained Pain Physicians and to safeguard them from medicolegal issues.
• To do the efforts for proper compensation and reimbursements for the Pain Physicians by bringing the pain interventions in Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna Ayushman Bharat scheme and other government welfare schemes as well as in Private Insurance companies.
• To promote, popularize and training of newer modalities in the field of Pain Medicine.

Membership of ISPC

The membership of Indian Society of Pain Clinicians ISPC is open to ‘Only’ Pain Physicians, who have done at least One year of Formal in-house training in Pain Medicine course, which is at least University recognised with an entry and exit exam, that includes PDCC courses, PDAF (2 years), FNB (2 years) and DM (3 years) courses and Mentors of these courses.
Indian Society of Pain Clinicians ISPC regularly conducts the Annual National conferences and also conducts various topic specific CMEs and Hands-on workshops for the benefit of society.
The aim of Indian Society of Pain Clinicians ISPC to help making the world free of menace of chronic pain, the biggest NCD (Non-communicable Disease) of modern age.

Long Live ISPC!