title: Changing of an anesthesiology clinical base year to create an integrated 48-month curriculum: experience of one program.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Staszak
authors.forename: Ihab
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dorotta
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Steckner
authors.forename: Emad
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mossad
authors.forename: F George
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Estafanous
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Tetzlaff
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*