OMFS Anesthesia becoming 8 months....

[The Anhedonia]

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did anyone else see this in the most recent AAOMS publication?

The AAOMS Board, Committee on Education and Training
(CET) and the OMS Faculty Section thoroughly reviewed
the OMS accreditation standards at its March, September
and October 2017 meetings. The proposed changes include
revisions to the anesthesia and medicine clinical experience
in regards to the management of children and geriatrics.
In addition, the proposed revisions include updating
the language relative to the duration of educational
experiences from five months to 32 weeks. The proposed
revisions will be considered by the OMS Residency Review
Committee at its January 2018 meeting.
https://www.aaoms.org/docs/aaoms_today/issues/2018_02.pdf

if this happens it will be challenging for most programs to be limited to 4/6 years given other rotational requirements........

 

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did anyone else see this in the most recent AAOMS publication?

The AAOMS Board, Committee on Education and Training
(CET) and the OMS Faculty Section thoroughly reviewed
the OMS accreditation standards at its March, September
and October 2017 meetings. The proposed changes include
revisions to the anesthesia and medicine clinical experience
in regards to the management of children and geriatrics.
In addition, the proposed revisions include updating
the language relative to the duration of educational
experiences from five months to 32 weeks. The proposed
revisions will be considered by the OMS Residency Review
Committee at its January 2018 meeting.
https://www.aaoms.org/docs/aaoms_today/issues/2018_02.pdf

if this happens it will be challenging for most programs to be limited to 4/6 years given other rotational requirements........

What is their rationale for this?
OS grads are not competent enough with anesthesia? This will reduce the chances of anesthesia becoming a legitimate specialty?

Thanks for the data.

 

[Pennywisdom]

If approved, I wonder when this policy will be taken into effect. It could potentially lengthen the training of some programs (especially 6-yr programs), unless the months served in anesthesia can be counted towards general surgery - which will be never approved by GME.

 

[The Anhedonia]

In my program we do a ton of gen surg (16 months for 2 years credit to get MA medical license) which already cuts into our OMFS on-service time. W/ 8-months of anesthesia I don't know if my program could keep it down to 72 months...