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Anesthesiology
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| Course Director: | Guy Weinberg, MD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Phone: (312) 996-4020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| guyw@uic.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prerequisites and Placement in the Curriculum: |
Students must have completed their M3 Core Clerkships in Medicine and Surgery; Year Four | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Purpose:
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The primary goal of the clerkship is to develop in each student the basic knowledge, clinical skills, and judgment needed to manage patients during the perioperative period so that anesthetic/surgical risk among relatively uncomplicated patients undergoing non-complex surgical procedures is minimized. Concurrently, students will develop history/physical examination skills to predict airway difficulty and to detect ventilatory improvement, will acquire basic skills in airway management, and will learn an algorithm for managing a difficult airway. Students will also be introduced to anesthesia subspecialties, such as cardiac and pediatric anesthesia, and anesthesia subspecialties without operating room activity such as obstetric anesthesia, pain management, and critical care. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Instructional
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All students receive an orientation to the specialty and department on the first day of the clerkship. Didactic conferences are held every weekday morning at 6:30 am. Each day begins with a morning conference in a format described in the weekly conference schedule - these include "keywords" conference, journal club, case management, pediatric neuro and other specialty conferences as well as the "Jeopardy" (anesthesia version) conference. A core curriculum that covers specific topics comprising anesthesia practice, the "First Month Course," is held every weekday in the late morning. Students will also be required to attend two evening meetings: the monthly departmental M&M conference and the bi-monthly Chicago Society of Anesthesiologists guest lecture series. Attendance and participation in conferences is mandatory. Each day, the student is assigned to a particular OR and attending and assists the resident in starting the IV, drawing up drugs, room set-up, and preoperative and intraoperative care of the day's patients. For students with a particular interest there is always an opportunity to spend time one-on-one with an attending having like interests. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Assessment:
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Students are evaluated daily by the faculty and residents they are assigned to work with. Students are responsible for giving an evaluation card each day to the appropriate person. There will be a written examination given on the last day of the clerkship. On the last day, students will meet with faculty to discuss their experiences on the clerkship, review the exam questions, and discuss their daily evaluations. |
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Students receive 2 weeks of credit over 4 weeks attending mornings only. Afternoons are spent in Radiology. |
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Key
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General, regional, combined and monitored care anesthesia; intravenous and inhalation anesthetics; pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; induction and emergence; spinal epidural and plexus anesthesia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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