Teaching Rule Fixed!!

[anesbiz]

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Hello PGG

I cannot speak to anywhere but my area of the country. I dont know exactly how their didactic portion works ive never asked. What I do know is that they are in the OR in their first 3 months. So it appears to work differently here. From attending their graduation parties I know some of the programs are 27 months and some 30.

The program I oft-times do lectures for is 30 months and at the 12 month point they work solo in my OR like a CRNA but in a 2:1 SRNA:Attending ratio @ 50-60 hours a week until the program ends.

Like I said, I have no idea what the programs where you may be are run, but that is how it is done here.

The last 18 months of CRNA school constitutes the entirety of their clinical training. The SRNAs here do their classroom time, finish that, show up for their clinical time, and 18 months later they're done.

And you're saying the "entire last year (to year and a half)" of their training they're inducing patients alone?

I'm not quite so quick as toughlife to play the he's-a-CRNA-let's-BURN-HIM card, and I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt ... but I find this claim awfully hard to believe.

 

[pgg]

Hello PGG

I cannot speak to anywhere but my area of the country. I dont know exactly how their didactic portion works ive never asked. What I do know is that they are in the OR in their first 3 months. So it appears to work differently here. From attending their graduation parties I know some of the programs are 27 months and some 30.

I stand corrected. Here they do all their didactics up front - I think it's 12 or 15 months, followed by 18 in our ORs & L&D (with a few months at other hospitals thrown in the mix).

 

[Kubed]

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