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Question: What feedback did the current interns provide about the internship? Answer: —“Very strong clinical training across all major specialties of medicine” —“Strengths include patient complexity, diversity of hospital sites (VA, County hospital, Stanford), [...]

The Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University is delighted to graduate 24 new anesthesiologists! They are listed below with their next position. Congratulations. Sarah Clark: Regional Anesthesia Fellowship, Northwestern James Flaherty: Regional [...]

Senior resident Chris Miller just got back from a month in Rwanda. He has written a nice essay below to summarize his experience which I wanted to share with you. Thank you Alex Thanks to exceptional support and the strong backing of the Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine [...]

An article that just was published studied applicants’ self-reported priorities in selecting a residency.(1) The five factors with highest rating of importance were: — the program’s ability to prepare residents for future training or position — resident esprit de corps [...]

Some highlights from the Education Committee Meeting Announcements: Dr. Meredith Kan has been appointed Rotation Director of the Orthopedic Anesthesia elective. Dr. Tanaka welcomed Dr. Sheila Pai Cole as the newest member of the Education Committee. He also welcomed the newly named chief [...]

Faculty advisor meeting twice a year  An updated medhub form (https://stanford.medhub.com/functions/evaluations/index.mh?p=anes) has been created to document this mtg. The new Faculty Advisor job description is in Appendix A. Chief Resident QI project The GME Chief resident committee has [...]

QI activities are increasingly intertwined within the anesthesia residency as anesthesiologists are expected to be problem solvers in all hospital areas. For residents there are many available opportunities for example: 1) CA2 class QI program. The CA2 resident class is divided into 4 groups of [...]

Chrystina Jeter MD Chrystina was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA and is the youngest of five children. After finishing high school, she left Bakersfield to attend the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She graduated with a major in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. After college, [...]

The current CA3 class has 25 residents that will graduate next June, and 16 (64%) are doing fellowships. Four senior residents are headed for a regional anesthesia fellowship (Stanford, Northwestern, Virginia-Mason, and Duke), four have signed up for pain medicine fellowship (Stanford, UCSF, [...]

Here are some bullet points to update you on Stanford Anesthesia Education activities: Record Libero daily lecture series: The daily lectures series for residents in the Multispecialty division which began in July 2013 and offered 3 times each day has helped improve the MSD “overall teaching [...]