Transitional Year Residency

One block is equal to four weeks:

• General Internal Medicine: 3 blocks
• Emergency Medicine: 1 block
• ICU: 1 block
• Ambulatory Care/Research: 1 block
• Nephrology: 1 block
• Electives: 5 blocks
• Night Float: 1 block

For residents interested in pursuing a career in anesthesiology, we’ve developed a one-month elective rotation designed to expose you to the wide array of anesthesia practice, including solid organ transplantation, cardiac surgery, joint replacement surgery, robotic surgery, reconstructive surgery, head and neck cancer surgery, as well as routine procedures including colonoscopies, appendectomies and cesarean sections.

It is our mission to instill principles and practices that will serve residents in providing excellent care for patients and prepare them for leadership in tomorrow’s healthcare, regardless of their chosen field. We invite you to explore the details of our specialty while gaining hands-on experience.

During your one-month Anesthesiology elective rotation, you will be an active participant in patient care, from start to finish while learning the basics of anesthesia and perioperative medicine from our anesthesiology faculty who have trained at premier programs across the country. You will learn the nuances of:

• General anesthesia, including anesthetic planning, preoperative patient assessment, and postoperative care
• Regional and neuraxial anesthesia, including spinal, epidural and peripheral nerve blocks administration
• Monitored anesthesia care, including moderate and deep sedation

You will have the opportunity to practice important life-saving skills including:

• Bag-mask ventilation with and without oral airways
• Laryngeal mask airway placement
• Endotracheal intubations, including double lumen endotracheal tubes and observe awake fiberoptic intubations
• Arterial line catheter placement with and without ultrasound guidance
• Central venous catheter placement with ultrasound guidance

During your rotation, you will learn about the various anesthesia subspecialties and have exposure to special procedures such as:

• Transesophageal echocardiography with our cardiac anesthesiologists
• Jet ventilation for cardiac electrophysiology ablation procedures
• Video laryngoscopy for managing potentially difficult airways
• Epidural catheter placement and subarachnoid blocks with our OB anesthesiologists
• Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks

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