Anesthesiology residency program combines a clinical experience filled with challenging cases across the spectrum of anesthesiology subspecialties, combined with a strong didactic program that facilitates successful completion of the board examination process. It is critically important that this transpires in an environment that is friendly, supportive, and stimulating.
Residency in anaesthesiology involves 3 years training of expert physicians to become professional anaesthesiologists. The first year involves learning basic skills on real cases under close faculty supervision in the medical centres. The second year involves extensive experience in anesthetic sub-specialities. Like pediatric anesthesia, cardiovascular anesthesia, pain service, critical care medicine, anestesia for thoracic surgery, regional anestesia, neuroanestesia, post anestesia care unit etc.
The third year involves an intensive and thorough practice in the sub speciality selected by the resident student. This year involves advance and complex anestesia assignments. The extensive list of required cases and procedures, as delineated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)’s Residency Review Committee for Anesthesiology, helps to ensure that residents trained in anesthesiology have adequate exposure to cases across all anesthesiology subspecialties.
Finally For the individual who wants more of the traditional patient-doctor setting, there is the possibility of a career spawned from anesthesiology in intensive care medicine or pain management. These certified fellowship programs follow initial training in anesthesiology and offer the ability to have a career in which patients look to you as their doctor. Still, you are not the primary care physician for the patient and therefore act in a consultation capacity. However, you have a longer interaction with a given patient and you form a more lasting bond between the patient and their familes.