Resident education will be both formal and informal, occurring daily. An intensive and multi-modality formal educational program based on the American Board of Anesthesiology Content Outline has been developed and will include traditional lectures, case-based conferences, peer-review of current literature, simulation, flipped-classroom sessions and mock oral and OSCE exams. Residents will also receive intensive education and hands-on experience in the use of perioperative ultrasound, including transesophageal echocardiography and transthoracic echocardiography.

The formal didactic program will be split into 2 tracks - a BASIC curriculum during the CA-1 year and an ADVANCED curriculum during the CA-2 and CA-3 years. Residents will also participate in weekly departmental meetings that will include (but is not limited to) visiting professors, presentations by both residents and faculty, and combined surgery-anesthesia M&M conferences. 

Informally, a core component of the resident's educational experience will be daily patient-specific or rotation-specific education. Residents and their assigned attendings will collaborate to identify areas for discussion. Residents will be expected to prepare daily by reading relevant texts or primary literature.

Monday, 6:30-7AM - Keywords:  Termination of Pharmacologic Action: Elimination, Biotransformation, Context-sensitive Half-time

Monday 4:00 - 5PM - Ultrasound/TEE Workshop for CA-2s

Tuesday, 6:30-7AM - Neuroanesthesia/Subspecialty conference:  Delayed Emergence after TIVA for Spinal Surgery

Tuesday 4:00 - 5PM - Journal Club with Visiting Professor

Wednesday 6:30 - 7AM - Keywords: Oxygen Transport, Ventilation/Perfusion

Wednesday, 7-8AM - Departmental Grand Rounds/Distinguished Speaker

Wednesday 4:00 - 5PM - BASIC Pathway CA1s.  Airway management. "Can't Intubate, Can't Oxygenate, CAN Pass Exam"

Thursday, 4:00 - 5PM - ADVANCED Pathway/Oral Board Review for CA3s .  "Bleeding Tonsils"