The rapid growth of ambulatory surgery has brought special challenges to hospital systems that have changed as a result. Anesthesiologists have learned to adapt to current demands and to alter ages old methods of practice in an evolving system of medical care. The anesthesiologist must be anatomist, physiologist, pharmacologist, internist, and pediatrician. Knowledge of surgery, orthopedics, and obstetrics is important and must be constantly reviewed and renewed. A world of practice opportunities awaits the trained physician capable of controlling pain.
Anesthesiologists are at home in private practice and in federal, municipal and state hospitals.
The graduates of our program can be found throughout the United States, some joining our faculty, others traveling as far as New Mexico, California, and to Hawaii. To those whose interest extends beyond the operating room and hospital, there is the work of academic medicine and the research laboratory. We invite you to explore this fascinating world of anesthesiology, to see the application of physiology and pharmacology in the clinical laboratory that is the operating room. Learn of the monitors that analyze every heartbeat, every breath, and the functions of every organ, under the stresses of disease, surgery and pharmacologic onslaught. If the direct application of physiology and pharmacology to clinical medicine excites you, then anesthesiology will excite you, because that's what our specialty is.