MESSAGE FROM THE RECRUITMENT CHIEFS
Our residency program has many strengths, from significant resident autonomy, to in-house moonlighting. Upon graduation, all of our residents can expect to perform comfortably in most clinical settings, having been exposed to a broad range and number of cases during their program. Most of our training takes place at the VCU Medical Center, which includes our main OR and an attached ambulatory surgery center. Additionally, our residents spend 20 weeks training at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center located approximately 12 minutes away from our main hospital. Beginning in internship we get extensive ICU experience, which continues into residency. Our interns rotate through the NICU, neurosurgical ICU, and medical ICU at the VA. Additionally our interns rotate through such services as labor and delivery, ER, and various surgical and medical specialties. During our anesthesia training we do one more month in the neurosurgical ICU and two months in the cardiac surgery ICU where we learn to manage very sick patients with a wide spectrum of diseases during their post-op recovery course. As anesthesia residents we are exposed to a wide variety of clinical training. As a level 1 trauma center we see ample trauma victims on a regular basis. Regional anesthesia is heavily utilized, including ultrasound & nerve stimulator guidance, catheter placement, and neuraxial anesthesia. As residents we manage cardiac cases both at the VCU Medical Center and the VA with assistance from our cardiac/TEE fellows. Our ambulatory surgery center is designed to run as an outpatient surgery center where we work towards highly efficient quality care with goals toward rapid recovery and discharge. We run a wide variety of pediatric cases in the main OR, our ambulatory surgery center, and various off site locations such as endoscopy, interventional radiology, the cath lab, and MRI.
Each year many of our graduating residents go on to additional fellowship training throughout the country. Our graduating residents have trained in regional, chronic pain, pediatric, and cardiac/TEE fellowships, including the cardiac/TEE fellowship offered at MCVH. Aside from the clinical strengths of our program the residents in our program enjoy the option of internal moonlighting. We also have a tightly knit group of residents who enjoy getting together for social events as often as possible. If you are interested in a residency program that provides a well-rounded clinical experience with the option of internal moonlighting, and strong resident cohesiveness our program may be the right fit for you. Feel free to email us with any additional questions.
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During our CA3 year we rotate as a coordinator of the OR where we get experience managing our anesthesia staff and assigning residents to the next day’s cases. At night the coordinating resident helps oversee and run both elective and trauma cases.
