Anesthesiology Residency

 

Residency Education Lecture Series and Departmental Conferences

Educational programs are offered daily. Core lectures are normally held Monday through Wednesday, departmental conferences/grand rounds are held on Thursdays, and subspecialty pain and cardiac conferences are held on Thursdays and Fridays, respectively. Core lectures are interactive, designed to cover the full spectrum of the ABA examination content outline, and repeat each year to facilitate learning and exposure to each topic.

Thursday morning departmental conferences include the following:

Pain and cardiac subspecialty conferences supplement the above educational offerings. All educational sessions occur before clinical work to facilitate opportunities for self-directed learning, planning for the next day’s clinical work, and time outside of the hospital after clinical work is complete for the day. Additional learning opportunities are included within our journal clubs, annual simulation training, and frequent informal teaching sessions.

Intern Didactics

During the CBY, our interns join their residency class weekly for lunch on Wednesdays at noon as part of protected education time while on other rotations. A variety of topics are covered within this series including basic anesthesia topics and management, research and quality initiative overviews, preparatory sessions for CA-1 year, case discussions, intern presentations to the CBY group, and simulation sessions for vascular access, epidural placement, and difficult airway management. This serves to educate our future CA residents in anesthesia while providing a chance to spend time with various faculty and CA residents, grow relationships with one another, and become familiar with our department.

Anesthesia Resident Research Forum

Held each year, this forum allows residents to present original research, case reports, or quality improvement projects to the anesthesiology department. This is a formal event, and judges award prizes for the best research project, best case report, and best presentation. We may have a well-known speaker join us for this event as a guest lecturer.

Gillespie Family Lectureship in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Through the generosity of the Gillespie Family’s endowment, each year, a nationally known guest speaker is brought to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple to serve as a guest lecturer for morning Grand Rounds, a lunch roundtable discussion with residents and an evening lecture topic. We have been lucky to recruit many excellent speakers, including current and former American Society of Anesthesiologist Presidents, members of the American Board of Anesthesiology Board of Directors and many well-known chairs and program directors of distinguished residency programs throughout the country.

Specialty Resident Assignments

One-month specialty rotations are organized for the disciplines of cardiothoracic, vascular, obstetric, and pediatric anesthesia beginning in CA-1 year. Supervising faculty with a clinical focus in the above disciplines are typically assigned to facilitate a high-quality educational experience. While on our acute pain management service/advanced airway management rotation during each year of residency, residents have an opportunity to perform a high volume of regional blocks, learn acute and chronic pain management, and practice difficult airway management.

Critical Care Medicine

In addition to the intensive care experience during the clinical base year, three additional months are scheduled on critical care medicine for each year of residency. The Surgical ICU treats surgical patients from most surgical subspecialties, as well as those admitted with problems secondary to major trauma at our Level 1 trauma center. Supervision is provided by both anesthesiology and surgical attendings with subspecialty credentials in critical care medicine. Occasionally, residents request additional ICU training time as a CA-3 within our SICU, Cardiothoracic ICU, Neurosurgical ICU, or Medical ICU.

Advanced Clinical Track

The advanced clinical track provides a broad mix of advanced clinical anesthesia assignments. The purpose of these rotations is to allow the CA-III resident to expand his/her experience and confidence in the management of more complex anesthetic problems. The upper-level resident manages patients with more complex medical problems for more complicated surgery. In addition, he/she is allowed greater freedom in development and implementation of an anesthetic plan. The resident may also obtain additional experience in subspecialty rotations.