I would like to thank you for taking the time to visit our website. One of the biggest challenges I encounter in trying to recruit residents into our program is getting people to know that we even exist! Wichita, Kansas, is not necessarily thought of as a destination city, so it sometimes fails to show up on the radar of prospective applicants. I am here to tell you that Wichita should be your destination city if you plan to pursue an anesthesiology residency.
We have an excellent transitional year that includes experiences in critical care, surgery, emergency medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, nephrology and other elective rotations.
To prepare interns for anesthesia, we incorporate a block of perioperative medicine in the second half of the year. During this rotation, they learn how to perform anesthesia focused preoperative evaluations and optimize patients for surgery. We also have a block focused on Point-of-Care Ultrasound. The last block of the intern year involves an intense immersion on an anesthesiology rotation during which all five interns rotate together.
In addition to learning how to begin performing clinical anesthesia, they receive a crash course in basic anesthesia principles taught by their senior colleagues and attendings.
This experience allows them to enter the CA-1 year feeling very confident. The CA-1 year includes four months of general anesthesia rotations, an ICU rotation, a research rotation, and a combination of specialty rotations in the second half of the year including difficult airway management, post anesthesia care, acute pain, pediatric anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia and introduction to cardiovascular anesthesia. During the research rotation, residents have dedicated time to work with Will Krogman, our research associate, to prepare a case for presentation at the Midwest Anesthesia Resident Conference.
