Anesthesiology Residency Curriculum

Summary

A comprehensive 12 month Core Curriculum has been compiled to review all anesthesia subspecialties, including quality improvement and practice management, during your residency training. All Section Chiefs review and update lecture topics within their area of expertise annually. Lectures are held every Thursday morning to include Grand Rounds and some Tuesday mornings.

Interspersed within the 12 month Core Curriculum are Mock Oral Board Exams, Problem-Oriented Case Presentations, Written Board / Key Word Reviews, and Journal Clubs.

Every effort is made to integrate didactic knowledge with clinical experience during resident lectures and simulations to foster independent thinking and develop consultative skills.

In our mission to deliver high-quality lectures and simulations, residents are asked to complete an evaluation form in New Innovations after each learning opportunity, so that we can provide lecturers and simulation instructors with timely performance feedback.

Lecture Series Blocks

Preoperative Evaluation

Renal Anesthesia

General Anesthetics

Genitourinary Anesthesia

Monitoring

Hepatobiliary Anesthesia

Cardiac  Anesthesia

Endocrine Anesthesia

Vascular Anesthesia

Laparoscopic Anesthesia

Thoracic Anesthesia

Bariatric Anesthesia

Neuro Anesthesia

Trauma Anesthesia

Obstetrical Anesthesia Organ Transplantation
Neonatal Anesthesia  Remote Site Anesthesia

Pediatric Anesthesia

 PACU
Outpatient Anesthesia  Critical Care Medicine
Advanced Airway Acute Pain
ENT Anesthesia Chronic Pain

Geriatric Anesthesia

Quality Improvement

Orthopedic Anesthesia

Practice Management
Point of Care Ultrasound Transesophaegeal Echo

Oral Board Presentation Program

You will participate in Mock Oral Board Exam sessions monthly to help you prepare for the ABA Applied Examination. Certified ABA Oral Board Examiners moderate these sessions.

Problem-Oriented Case Presentations

Interesting cases with complex management strategies are presented by faculty for discussion periodically in an effort to facilitate real time thinking, develop your ability to generate complex differential diagnoses expeditiously, and fine tune clinical judgment.

Simulation

Our Simulation Center's new Gaumard simulator will give residents additional opportunity to integrate real-time thinking with hands-on experience during bi-monthly simulation sessions. This is excellent opportunity for residents to integrate differential diagnoses into clinical practice and fine tune essential skills, such as running a code and employing crew/crisis resource management principles.

Our Simbionix TEE/TTE simulation trainer continues to be an integral part of our cardiac education curriculum and helps prepare residents for the Basic PTEeEXAM. 

Research

You are expected to participate in a research project during your residency training. Examples of resident research projects include: Medically Challenging Cases, Abstracts, Letters to the Editor, writing book chapters, continuation of an existing research project and/or initiation of a new research project.

Quality Improvement

CA0-CA3 residents are expected to participate in a QI project both individually and as a team.

Quality Improvement

Block Curriculum

CA-0 Curriculum

  • 6 weeks of Acute Pain Service
  • 1 month of ACS Surgery
  • 1 month Emergency Medicine
  • 1 month of General Anesthesia
  • 1 month Medicine Consult / PAE
  • 1 month of Medicine Intensive Care Unit
  • 1 month of Medicine Wards
  • 1 month of OB Anesthesia
  • 1 month of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  • 1 month of Point of Care Ultrasound-Guided (Emergency Department)
  • 1 month of Pulmonary
  • 1 month Surgical Intensive Care Unit

CA-1 Curriculum

  • 3-4 months General
  • 1 month OB
  • 1 month APS
  • 1 month Pedi
  • 1 month Ambulatory
  • 1 month Advanced Airway
  • Subspecialty Rotations (Neuro, Thoracic, Vascular)

CA-2 Curriculum

  • Cardiac
  • 1 month Vascular
  • 1 month Thoracic
  • 1 month CPS
  • 1 month ICU
  • 1 month Regional
  • 1 month Advanced Airway
  • 1 month Neuro
  • 1 month Pedi
  • 1 month Ambulatory
  • Remote Site

CA-3 Curriculum

  • 1 month ICU
  • 1 month Advanced Regional
  • Multiple Specialty Electives
Sample Call Schedule

Week 1

  • 2 Anesthesia CallĀ 
  • 2 Off

Week 2

  • 1 Anesthesia Call
  • 1 Off

Week 3

Week 4

  • 2 Anesthesia Call
  • 2 Off

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