Changing of an anesthesiology clinical base year to create an integrated 48-month curriculum: experience of one program.
To allow for growth in our anesthesiology residency, we assumed control of the clinical base year (postgraduate year 1[PGY-1]) and adjusted the curriculum to accommodate the expanded size. With this opportunity to change the curriculum, we created a clinical base year to prepare PGY-1 for clinical anesthesia training in PGY-2 to PGY-4 using, for this purpose, the best resources of our clinical site. We describe the process and preliminary results of the change.
Staszak
John
J
Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Dorotta
Ihab
I
Steckner
Karen
K
Mossad
Emad
E
Estafanous
F George
FG
Tetzlaff
John E
JE
D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*