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Due to the current shortage of qualified anesthesiologists, physicians accepting locum tenens (who temporarily fulfils the duties of another) assignments can receive excellent pay. While the pay rates vary by assignment, anesthesiologists average about $1,200 per day and up to $1,350 for cardiac cases or paediatrics. This amounts to $6,000-6,750 per week on assignment. In addition to excellent pay, locum tenens can enjoy the additional benefits of travelling to new places, experiencing different practice settings and keeping a flexible schedule.
There are various determining factors for an anesthesiologist’s salary. With the demand in the medical field for doctors there is an equal rising demand for an anesthesiologist. However, it depends where one is practicing like is the area you practice in populated, a city, town or a country side. If the area has more demand for such professionals then the amount earned by the professional is on the higher end. Another factor is the experience of a professional as an anesthesiologist.
The following data is taken from the report on an anesthesiologist salary from the PayScale and the U.S.Bureau of Labor and statistics. The national average salary ranges from $169,952 to $295,320 per annum. The minimum hourly rate is about $80.00. This is one of the highly respected and paid for profession in the U.S.A. An experienced anesthesiologist who has been practising for more than 10 years can earn up to $369.424 or even as high as $450.00 per annum.
There are other benefits for an anesthesiologist as in they can avail medical benefits of self and sometimes immediate family too, medical licence, bonuses etc. There is a demand for anesthesiologist at all major surgeries and operations, hence the demand for this profession is endless and in fact on the rise.

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.

Premedical students must complete undergraduate work in physics, biology, mathematics, English, and inorganic and organic chemistry. Students also take courses in the humanities and the social sciences. Some students volunteer at local hospitals or clinics to gain practical experience in the health professions.
The minimum educational requirement for entry into medical school is 3 years of college; most applicants, however, have at least a bachelor’s degree, and many have advanced degrees.
Acceptance to medical school is highly competitive. Applicants must submit transcripts, scores from the Medical College Admission Test, and letters of recommendation. Schools also consider an applicant’s character, personality, leadership qualities, and participation in extracurricular activities. Most schools require an interview with members of the admissions committee.
Students spend most of the first 2 years of medical school in laboratories and classrooms, taking courses such as anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, microbiology, pathology, medical ethics, and laws governing medicine. They also learn to take medical histories, examine patients, and diagnose illnesses. During their last 2 years, students work with patients under the supervision of experienced physicians in hospitals and clinics, learning acute, chronic, preventive, and rehabilitative care. Through rotations in internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery, they gain experience in the diagnosis and treatment of illness.

Anesthesiology is the branch of medicine that is concerned with the study and practice of anesthesia. It is a specialty requiring competency in general medicine, a broad understanding of surgical procedures, and a comprehensive knowledge of clinical obstetrics, chest medicine, neurology, pediatrics, pharmacology, biochemistry, cardiology, and cardiac and respiratory physiology. It is also the branch of medicine concerned with the relief of pain and the administration of medication to relieve pain during surgery or other invasive procedures. In medical practice the branch of medicine dedicated to relieving pain and inducing anesthesia during surgery and other medical procedures is called anesthesiology; the scope of anesthesiology includes non-surgery-related pain management; management of painful syndromes; monitoring, restoring, and maintaining hemostasis; teaching CPR; evaluating and applying respiratory therapy. In the 19th century, anesthesia in the operating room, where the surgeon was in command, was relegated to a minor role. Yet gradually physicians and surgeons recognized the need for anesthesiologists, well-trained specialist physicians dedicated full-time to anesthesia, who could extend surgical horizons by permitting operations previously scarcely conceivable and by allowing applications of surgical principles to patients previously considered too ill to withstand either anesthesia or operation. A few physicians were attracted by this opportunity early in the 20th century, but it was not until the mid-1930s that the specialty was officially recognized with the establishment of such medical societies as the American Board of Anesthesiology for certifying appropriately trained physician anesthetists. Today, in virtually every medical school, anesthesiology functions either as an autonomous division of surgery or a department of academics.

A candidate interested in a future profession as an anesthesiologist needs to take up admission in a bachelors degree program, however before that they have to take up subjects like math, science related subjects like physics, chemistry and biology. Then is the stage where you will have to give an entrance test in Medical College Admission Test MCAT, which determines your entry into good medical schools. Once in the medical school you need to acquire a Doctor of medicine degree M.D, where you gain exposure and experience in medical fields like pharmacy, surgery, internal medicine and cardiology. This entails 4 years in all with 2 years of theory and two years of projects and clinical experience. The third stage is the Residency which takes another 4 years of specializing as an anesthesiologist. The first year is used up gaining experience in all the general medical areas. Then the next 3 years are focused entirely on anaesthesiology. Ultimately one has to pass the Certification stage where the right candidate is awarded with a certificate from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) or the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA). This can be done after a theory and viva exam. Finally you need to get a licence to practice in different states of U.S.A. A few medical schools offer combined undergraduate and medical school programs that last 6 years rather than the customary 8 years.