Overview of Introductory and Subspecialty Training

The CA-1 resident year emphasizes the principles of both general and regional anesthesiology necessary to function as an anesthesiologist.
New CA-1 anesthesiology residents undergo a six-week orientation that includes a daily introductory lecture series and one-to-one attending supervision with incorporation of half day simulator sessions to highlight the management of acute intraoperative events.
The CA-1 year is organized into discrete block rotations to ensure that every resident is exposed to all major areas of expertise. These rotations include general surgery, urology, ENT/Airway, gynecology, regional anesthesia (orthopedics), recovery room, pre-operative clinic, surgical obstetric anesthesiology, and critical care.
As more experience is gained, residents are expected to demonstrate increasing independence and insight as they are assigned to multiple focused clinical rotations.

The CA-2 year incorporates rotations in the subspecialties of anesthesiology, including pediatric, obstetric, cardiothoracic, neurosurgical, and regional anesthesiology, and neurosurgical critical care and chronic pain medicine.
Each clinical rotation is accompanied by an organized didactic program to ensure that the resident becomes both clinically proficient and knowledgeable about the fundamentals of each subspecialty.

The CA-3 year is designed to give the resident all the exposure necessary to develop into a perioperative physician and anesthesiology consultant by providing advanced training in transplantation/vascular, cardiothoracic, and neurosurgical anesthesia, cardiothoracic critical care and acute pain medicine as well as electives in research, obstetric, pediatric, and regional anesthesia as well as pain medicine. CA-3 residents will also gain experience with OR management and off-site anesthesia.