The surgical suite is also staffed by certified registered nurse anesthetists who carry out a great deal of the service requirements of the department and provide the flexibility required to free the residents for conferences, lectures, and patient rounds. The department has a very active medical student teaching program which offers the resident opportunities to reinforce his own education by assisting in the teaching of others. Didactic Program Throughout the program, residents participate in four or five classroom hours weekly. Funding and time are made available for this purpose from department resources. Each block has an assigned faculty coordinator, specific aims and objectives, and assigned reading.
More frequent call is taken during the obstetric anesthesia and critical care rotations.
There are three options available for the final year of training, advanced clinical anesthesia, subspecialty clinical anesthesia, or the clinical scientist track approved by the American Board of Anesthesiology. The final year is individually designed to meet the needs of the resident while fulfilling the requirements of the Board. Subspecialty training in the CA-III year can also be arranged at other centers. CA-III residents are assigned call approximately one week in every seven. Each resident is assigned a faculty tutor to help with possible problems throughout the program.