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 held on 2 weekday afternoons. 2-3 hours of lecture per week.

Interspersead 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

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.