Our internship year is crafted such that we focus on development of well-rounded competent physicians even prior to their starting rigorous anesthesiology residency training. We attempt to immerse our interns into their anesthesiology training program early, and frequently, to help enhance the close relationship among our residents and anesthesia faculty. Our goal is to help our interns adjust to relocating to a new city, hospital system and their chosen profession. Required rotations for our interns include 5 months of medicine, which is comprised of general inpatient medicine, cardiology, renal medicine, 2 weeks in our Center of Peri-operative Care, 1 week on Inpatient anesthesia consult team and a 1 week Blood Bank rotation. You will also participate in 2 ICU month, one in the Neuro-critical care unit and the other as part of the Anesthesia Critical Care Team in the CVICU. To better understand airway pathology, you will participate in a one month ENT rotation. You will also spend one month on your Emergency Medicine rotation. You will also have two separate months to rotate within the department of anesthesiology. Your paid vacation time will occur during these two months such that 10 days will be taken during each of those months.
Yes. There are a total of 1 month of anesthesia during your intern year – a half month in the 1st half of the year and another half month in the 2nd half of the year. You are typically paired with a senior resident every day for this month. The first half of the month is meant for us to just get our feet wet in anesthesia, learn where everything is located, appreciate the OR workflow, get to know faculty and residents, etc. The 2nd time around you begin attempting procedures under close supervision, discuss with faculty about anesthetic plans, and begin taking more responsibility at your own comfort level. Overall, these rotations are low stress and are meant to get you oriented to anesthesia.
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Yes. Internal paid moonlighting opportunities are available for CA-1, CA-2 and CA-3 residents in good academic standing. Moonlighting shifts are fairly distributed among eligible interested residents and include opportunities in the main OR, OB and cardiac ICU. All moonlighting hours must fall within work hour limits.
Call varies from rotation to rotation. Call shifts are 24 hour shifts. While on your OR anesthesia rotations, you will take anywhere between 2-4 call shifts per month. You will never exceed 4 call shifts/month.
Elective rotations are for the benefit of the resident and we are open to arranging most any elective rotation with educational value. Our most common elective rotations include Cardiac/TEE, regional anesthesia, pediatric anesthesiology, chronic pain, ICU, global humanitarian outreach, research and transition to practice.
CRNAs are a very important component of the anesthesia care team model. In this residency program, you will have the opportunity to work with our CRNAs on your transition to practice rotation and better understand your future role as leader of the anesthesia care team. We have a large and very busy operating room with many offsite locations. Our residents are given preferential scheduling of high educational value cases with core teaching faculty.
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It is not required that you have taken Step 2 at the time of application, however passing Step 2 is essential prior to an applicant being able to start residency training. Our goal is to rank applicants who are expected to be able to start residency training on time.
We consider all applicants to our program and offer invitations based on performance and best fit for our program. We only sponsor H-1 visas.
Typically, we receive around 1800 applications.
Anesthesiology is a team sport. Desirable characteristics in our applicants are those that demonstrate leadership skills, professionalism, adaptability, collegiality and innate motivation to succeed. Our residency culture focuses on bringing about the best from not only ourselves but also those around us. Strong academic performance is an easier metric to assess and does factor in to our decision whether to offer an invitation to interview.
