Ideas for Anesthesia interest group meetings with Program directors?

[djsbaseball2014]

Hey everyone,

I am a current second year medical student and am the president of my schools Anesthesia Interest group. I have been emailing a bunch of Program Directors at residency programs to host Zoom meetings with our group during COVID 19 and surprisingly I have gotten a lot of responses. I am trying to avoid the mundane "Question and Answer" style sessions that we have had in the past and wanted to get some ideas as to what I could do to make the meetings more engaging/informative. Some ideas i had were:

• "Day in the life of a resident"-where i ask the PDs to see if any residents could speak to us about their daily routines, "bread and butter" cases, residency life, etc
• Case studies/educational events-potentially work through a clinical scenario and learn a bit more about the art of anesthesia as a medical specialty

I'm really open to other things related to anesthesia that med students may find interesting and can be done over zoom.

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[WheezyBaby]

Honestly the things you mentioned are things anesthesia residents and faculty who are not also a program director can facilitate. The best bang for your buck and the best use of the unique perspective of a PD is going to be information provision from the PD about what they desire in a candidate, demystifying the interview and ranking process, etc