I’m done with my first of three consecutive months of pediatric anesthesiology as a CA-2 resident. In four weeks, I’ve come to appreciate the nuances of perioperative care with neonates, infants, and children of all ages undergoing a myriad of procedures ranging from craniotomies to ear tube placements. Pediatric anesthesiologists…
Similar to the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) match process for residency, the San Francisco Match Program (SF Match) also has a match system for fellowships. Residents rank fellowship programs they interviewed at, and fellowship programs rank all the candidates they chose to interview. Once these lists are submitted by both the…
This afternoon while traveling home on the light rail, I received a notification on my smartwatch. An email notification which, for a brief moment, made me freeze. “Congratulations” was the subject line.
Half an hour before I received my CA-2 in-training exam score last week, I accepted a very humbling offer by my program director to be one of the chief anesthesiology residents for the 2016-2017 academic year.
I’m finished with my third call shift in my first six days of pediatric anesthesia. Varying levels of fatigue have definitely set in, but this falls short of the profound impact the critically ill pediatric population has had on me. Although I will be pursuing a critical care fellowship, taking care…
Although I’ve rotated through different disciplines (trauma, neuro, cardiothoracic, regional, obstetrics/gynecology, pain management), my patients were all adults who could communicate with me. I knew the first day of this rotation would be chaotic with the orientation process, but I was more fearful about dealing with children. What if I hurt them?!…
Although this chronic pain management rotation has been very relaxed, the month overall has been very hectic with my fellowship interviews. Many days I’ve had to catch flights immediately after work or, even better, come to work after returning to Houston well after midnight (…delayed flights… :mad: ). I’m just…
It’s 12:45 AM here in California, and I’m tired. Like really tired.
Tomorrow will be my last day (hooray for leap years) on the cardiothoracic anesthesia service as a CA-2 resident. The last two months have only reaffirmed my love for this particular field within anesthesiology. So much of the operative course in cardiopulmonary surgery relies on careful coordination between the surgeons,…
Just wanted to drop a post commemorating my completion of the anesthesia in-training exam (ITE) as a CA-2 resident! It was 200 questions and overall very fair. Now it’s time to celebrate with some video games!