Does your school have a mandatory Anesthesia Rotation?

[muchmargarita]

Does your school have a mandatory Anesthesiology Rotation and if so for how long and during what year, M1, M2, M3 or M4? Could you please include the school that you are referring to in your response. Thank you

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[HumbleMD]

Does your school have a mandatory Anesthesiology Rotation and if so for how long and during what year, M1, M2, M3 or M4? Could you please include the school that you are referring to in your response. Thank you

Penn has 1 (maybe it was 2?) weeks. It's during the surgery/EM clerkship block MS 1.5-2.5. Everyone gets a couple of fun intubations under their belt.

 

[2050vlsb]

Does your school have a mandatory Anesthesiology Rotation and if so for how long and during what year, M1, M2, M3 or M4? Could you please include the school that you are referring to in your response. Thank you

At MCW, there's a required 3rd year Resuscitation and Perioperative Medicine clerkship that includes anesthesiology, trauma surgery and emergency medicine ... not sure how long the anesthesiology component is though

 

[Jolie South]

Nope

 

[Hemichordate]

Nope, but I sure hope they did!

On a related question, do most schools have ophthalmology rotations?

 

[AlexMorph]

we have both gas and ophtho

 

[J ROD]

No......🙁

 

[CodeBlu]

OUWB does.

 

[justdoit31]

No- in our surgery clerkship you get 1 week of the 8 to do an elective and anesthesia is a choice for it but I doubt that is what I will pick.

 

[45408]

At MCW, there's a required 3rd year Resuscitation and Perioperative Medicine clerkship that includes anesthesiology, trauma surgery and emergency medicine ... not sure how long the anesthesiology component is though

It was the whole rotation. You just had those other classes in the afternoon.

 

[El Dooderino]

No- in our surgery clerkship you get 1 week of the 8 to do an elective and anesthesia is a choice for it but I doubt that is what I will pick.

I'm biased but I recommend doing it. Even if the only things you learn are IV's+intubations that's more valuable than any of the crap you'll learn in advanced pediocranial ortho-spine genital surgery or whatever surgical subspecialty rotation they put you on for a week

 

[Geekchick921]

No mandatory Gas or ophtho rotation here, but they do have a space for an elective in third year. We have a sort of required surgical subspecialty rotation during 4th year (we have to choose 2 of 3 rotations and some kind of surgical subspecialty is one of them) so you could choose to ophtho then.

Our less common (from my understanding, anyway) required rotations are Rads and EM, both during 4th year.

 

[mmmcdowe]

Columbia has mandatory neurosurg + gas built into neurology and surgery respectively starting next year. You also have time to select several additional surgical subs to rotate through during the clinical year.

 

[sleepy425]

Penn has 1 (maybe it was 2?) weeks. It's during the surgery/EM clerkship block MS 1.5-2.5. Everyone gets a couple of fun intubations under their belt.

it was 1

 

[KarateSocks]

our school used to have one during the surgery clerkship but they've rearranged the curriculum to cram in neuro in 3rd year, so it's now an elective

 

[MilkmanAl]

It seems like most places have at least a week of anesthesia at some point. UAMS has 1 week during a month where you do ENT, ortho, uro, and anesthesia.

 

[Bacchus]

My school does not, but we do have 4 weeks of general surgery followed by surgery which allows you to continue with gen. surg. or pick a surgical specialty depending on your rotation site. I learned a lot on anesthesia and would recommend it to anyone. Its disheartening at first, but then you realize most people don't have normal anatomy (read: fat necks, snaggle teeth, Mallampati's of 600 (😉)) and learn how to intubate the hard making the textbook case much, much easier.

 

[mvenus929]

We have a two week acute care rotation, and the first week of that is anesthesia. The second half is 'ER', but is more of a skill rotation in which you just try to do a bunch of things (place an IV, ride an ambulance, etc), not actually interview patients in the ER.

 

[shantster]

Anesthesiology makes up 2 weeks of our 8 week Surgery rotation. It's two 3 week rotations on different Gen Surg services and 2 weeks Anesthesia. Very nice way to lessen the load of Surgery since the hours on Anesthesia are about 6:30 to somewhere between noon and 3pm.

 

[justdoit31]

I'm biased but I recommend doing it. Even if the only things you learn are IV's+intubations that's more valuable than any of the crap you'll learn in advanced pediocranial ortho-spine genital surgery or whatever surgical subspecialty rotation they put you on for a week

I want to do peds surgery for my elective because I love being with kids and 2 months out of a year of pediatrics isn't enough for me so every chance I get I pick something with at least a lil pediatric tilt.