Temple Anesthesiology Categorical Program:
A four-year fully integrated Anesthesiology education
The Temple Anesthesiology categorical residency program is a four-year fully integrated residency program that will provide you with a well-rounded, robust, and world-class education. Rather than spending your PGY-1 year completing a traditional internal medicine, surgery, or transitional year, Temple integrates your 12 months of required Fundamental Clinical Skills of Medicine (formerly known as the Clinical Base Year) longitudinally into your first three years of residency. This allows the opportunity for more thoughtful and meaningful integration of your non-Anesthesiology rotations into the Anesthesiology curriculum. It also means that, unlike most programs…
Your first two months as a physician will be spent practicing Anesthesiology
As a PGY-1, you will spend the first two months of your residency training in an operating room one-on-one with Attending Anesthesiologists in an intensive onboarding program that will prepare you by the end of August to be safe and knowledgeable enough to be supervised under standard one-to-two supervisory ratios.
The CA-1 year begins with an eight-week orientation period during which residents are introduced to their new roles in the operating room. Resident and Faculty preceptors guide you through your first eight weeks in the operating rooms, and formal didactic sessions provide basic instruction in preanesthetic evaluation, preparation of the operating room for an anesthetic, and the conduct of and recovery from anesthesia.
Orientation to the Operating Room
After those two months, you’ll spend at least one month in the ORs, then you’ll periodically proceed to non-Anesthesiology rotations including internal medicine, surgery, and emergency medicine, among others. The breakdown year-by-year is as follows:
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Training Year |
Clinical Anesthesiology Rotations |
Fundamental Clinical Skills Rotations |
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PGY-1 |
One-to-One OR Orientation – 8 weeks General OR Anesthesia – 12-14 weeks OR Anesthesia Night Float – 4-6 weeks Vacation – 3 weeks
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Internal Medicine Wards – 8 weeks Internal Medicine Night Float – 2 weeks Emergency Medicine – 4 weeks Medical/Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (MICU/RICU) – 4 weeks Inpatient Perioperative Medicine Consultations – 4 weeks Scholarly/Academic Time – 2 weeks |
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PGY-2 |
General OR Anesthesia – 10 weeks Neuroanesthesia – 4 weeks Cardiac Anesthesia – 4 weeks Thoracic Anesthesia – 4 weeks Obstetric Anesthesia – 4 weeks Perioperative Medicine – 4 weeks Obstetric Anesthesia Night Float – 2 weeks OR Anesthesia Night Float – 6 weeks Scholarly/Academic Time – 2 weeks Vacation – 3 weeks |
Trauma Surgery – 4 weeks General Surgery – 4 weeks Surgical Intensive Care – 4 weeks
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PGY-3 |
General OR Anesthesia – 12 weeks Cardiac Anesthesia – 4 weeks Vascular Anesthesia – 4 weeks Pediatric Anesthesia @ Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) – 8 weeks Acute Pain Management – 4 weeks Chronic Pain Management – 4 weeks Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (Surgical) – 4 weeks Women’s Health Anesthesia @ Temple Women & Families – 4 weeks OR Anesthesia Night Float – 6 weeks Scholarly/Academic Time – 2 weeks Vacation – 3 weeks
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Cardiac Care Unit (Medical) – 4 weeks Addiction Medicine – 2 weeks Non-Anesthesiology Elective – 2 weeks
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PGY-4 |
General OR Anesthesia – 4 weeks Neuroanesthesia – 4 weeks Thoracic Anesthesia – 4 weeks Cardiac Anesthesia – 4 weeks Perioperative Medicine – 4 weeks Out of OR Anesthesia – 2 weeks Regional Anesthesia – 4 weeks Obstetric Anesthesia – 4 weeks Obstetric Anesthesia Night Float – 2 weeks Pediatric Anesthesia @ St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children – 4 weeks Anesthesiology Electives – 8 weeks General OR Night Float – 6 weeks Scholarly/Academic Time – 2 weeks Vacation – 3 weeks
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