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RESIDENCY PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Our residency training program seeks to educate physicians who wish to learn the specialty of anesthesiology. We seek to provide the physician with the knowledge, skills and clinical judgment to provide safe and effective
anesthesia care over the spectrum of anesthesiology expertise. We also seek to imbue the physician with the values and core competency necessary to successfully practice medicine and the specialty of anesthesiology.
The program is a comprehensive and progressive education in the specialty of anesthesiology built upon growth in competency to manage increasing levels of complexity with increasing independence.
The first year of clinical anesthesiology (CAY-I) focuses on the development of the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to develop competence to manage independently the anesthesia for a healthy (ASA I or II) patient. Included in this competency are the development of basic level core competence in the care of a patient, the basic medical and anesthesiology specific knowledge, the ability to understand how to learn from the practice of anesthesiology to improve care, beginning skills in communication between the anesthesiologist and the patient and other members of the care team, the fundamental values of professionalism, and a beginning understanding of the complexity of health care systems and how anesthesiology is practiced in that environment.
The second year of clinical anesthesiology (CAY-II) introduces the anesthesiology student to the specialty and sub-specialty areas of anesthesiology. At this level the resident begins to apply the skills and knowledge acquired during the CAY-1 year to learning the specialized knowledge and skills needed to manage more complex patients and special patient have more complex surgery. During this year residents will experience increasing independence during the specialty rotations as their skills and knowledge show evidence of growth and development. The rotations include pediatric anesthesiology, neuroanesthesiology, cardiac anesthesiology (including thoracic anesthesiology), pain management, management of critically ill patients in the ICU,
obstetrical anesthesiology, management of the pre-operative patient (Preoperative Evaluation Unit), management of the patient in the immediate post-operative period (PACU ? Post Anesthesia Care Unit). The student will also be expected to continue to develop the core competency at an intermediate level of ability needed to manage more complex patients requiring care by an anesthesiologist.
The third year of clinical anesthesiology (CAY-III) challenges the anesthesiology resident with the highest level of complexity in the practice of anesthesiology. The resident will be expected to work at a much greater level of independence with evidence of a mastery of the knowledge and skills needed to care for patients with life threatening problems undergoing the most complex procedures including major organ transplantation. The resident is also expected to function with fully competent physician exhibiting all the associated characteristics of competency in patient care, medical knowledge, ability to learn from their practice experience and modify their care to improve patient care, to be able to communicate effectively with patients and other health care providers, to demonstrate professionalism and to function effectively within their health care system.
Program Sponsor : AECOM
Program Length: 3 Years
LIBRARIES
Residents have unrestricted access to the main libraries at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at Montefiore Medical Center. With these vast resources residents can find the answers to clinical problems, perform literature searches, or review any topic. The Department maintains a complete anesthesia library at both clinical sites, and has its own Intranet access to major texts and anesthesia literature searches. Internet access is also readily available.
BOOK ALLOWANCE
A $500 per year allowance is given to all house staff. Medical books, PDA and journal subscriptions are allowed.
HOUSING
Subsidized housing is available through Montefiore Medical Center at the Moses Campus and in Riverdale.
FACILITIES
The Department services two divisions of Montefiore Medical Center: the Henry and Lucy Moses Division and the Jack D. Weiler Division. Each hospital has its own unique character, yet the Department insures a single standard of care by rotating our faculty through both sites. Each hospital has a Site Director, who facilitates the Department?s goals and maintains its standards. At the Moses Division, a new Children?s hospital opened in November 2001.
Our two facilities are located in the North Bronx, separated by a distance of four miles, and have a capacity of over 1,200 beds.
FELLOWSHIPS
An accredited Pain Management fellowship is offered at the Beth Israel Medical Center. The Department also offers an accredited fellowship in Cardio thoracic and non-accredited fellowship in Obstetrical Anesthesia.
RESEARCH
The Department maintains a long tradition of leadership in anesthesia research. As a prominent academic anesthesia department, it has many active research projects that range from NIH funded molecular biology, to clinical studies and epidemiological outcome based investigations
