Program Questions

Question: What is the trauma experience like at Stanford and what is the role of the anesthesia resident? Answer: For the most recent graduating class data from the ACGME reports shows an average [...]

Question:  What meetings would you recommend to learn about education and becoming a better teacher? Answer: All faculty are trained as clinicians, and many are trained as researchers. Few [...]

Question: We heard about Stanford having a high case mix index. Can you explain what that means please? Answer:The higher the hospital Case Mix Index the sicker the patients, the larger the [...]

Question What journal club experience do you have? Answer Stanford anesthesia housestaff participate in several different “journal clubs” during residency. The pediatric, obstetric, and regional [...]

The Stanford Anesthesia Class of 2010 just finished last week and are on their way to their next career step as follows: Shea Aiken—–Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship, Stanford Rob [...]

Question Over the past several weeks I have gotten a few questions from residents from other countries interested in doing a rotation here. For example: “Hi, I am a resident of [...]

Question What experience do residents get with billing, insurers, the health care policy debate, or trying to make a living in private practice? Answer The topics you mention are so broad we [...]

Question I’m wondering if I’m eligible for the one time Stanford moving housing allowance of $3,000 if I match at one of the internships near Stanford like the Santa Clara Valley [...]

This past yr Dr. Pearl the chairman and I have been working to organize a Stanford Anesthesia clinical base year with 12 FTEs, with interns rotating nine mths at Stanford University Hospital, two [...]

Match results for 2009 NRMP are in and we very pleased with the outcome! Marianne Chen, Boston Univ Sam Chen, Case Western Morgan Dooley, Johns Hopkins Roy Esaki, University of Michigan Brice [...]