American Board of Anesthesiology · Pain Medicine certification
ABA Pain Medicine
The certification exam is 200 single-best-answer questions in 4 hours, each with three options (A, B, C), mostly short clinical vignettes. Practise the same way: answer, then see why the best answer wins and why the other two do not, with sources.
Question bank
Practice questions
350 questions so far. Pick blueprint areas and how many; feedback after every answer.
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Starter set
25 free questions across the blueprint. No account needed.
Exam pace
Timed test
50-question blocks at 72 seconds a question, weighted like the real exam. Results by blueprint area.
What the exam covers
Share of the 200 questions by area, from the ABA Pain Medicine content outline. The bar label shows how many practice questions each area has so far.
- G1 Background concepts5% · 20 q
- G2 Assessment5% · 18 q
- G3 Pharmacotherapy15% · 52 q
- G4 Procedural15% · 53 q
- G5 Psychological, physical and integrative10% · 34 q
- C1 Taxonomy: classification of pain syndromes1% · 4 q
- C2 Chronic widespread pain syndromes1% · 3 q
- C3 Acute, trauma and procedural pain6.5% · 23 q
- C4 Musculoskeletal pain12.5% · 43 q
- C5 Cancer and cancer-related pain6% · 21 q
- C6 Visceral pain4% · 13 q
- C7 Headache and orofacial pain3% · 11 q
- C8 Neuropathic pain8% · 27 q
- C9 Special cases8% · 28 q
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