PREREQUISITES AND PLACEMENT IN THE CURRICULUM: Open to students who have completed their core rotations in Medicine and Surgery.
PURPOSE: 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 assess operative risk. Students 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, obstetric anesthesia , pain management, and critical care.
COMPETENCIES: In the process of completing this course, students strive to acquire the ability to assess preoperative anesthetic risk; evaluate and manage the airway and assess ventilatory adequacy; induce and maintain a simple general anesthetic; gain familiarity with drug classes, e.g., narcotics, hypnotics, etc; manage emergence from general anesthesia; learn the basics of regional anesthesia and sedation; learn the basics of high risk management (monitors, infusions, transfusion, etc.)
INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES: 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 found in the weekly conference schedule - these include, journal club, case management, drugs and keywords, as well as, specialty conferences such as pediatric and neuroanesthesia. A core curriculum that covers specific topics comprising anesthesia practice, the “First Month Course,” is held every weekday at 11:30 am. Students can also 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 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.
ASSESSMENT: Students are evaluated daily by the faculty and residents they are assigned to work with. Students are responsible for giving an evaluation sheet 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 evaluations. The grade is determined by a combination of daily evaluations, attendance, participation in conferences, and a final examination.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Program Number: SPEC 712
Location: AIMMC/MRH/UICMC/SFH/ALGH/JBVA
Program Director: Patricia Gramling-Babb, MD
Telephone: 312/996-4022
Duration: 2 Weeks Full Days
Night Call:
Weekends:
Students Accepted:
Housestaff Used as Faculty:
Inpatient/Faculty Contact: 4-8
Laboratory/Independent Study:
Outpatient:
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