title: Goal-Oriented Anesthesia Week for MS III Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Third year medical students at our institution are required to complete a one-week rotation in anesthesia as part of their required twelve week surgery clerkship. During this constrained time, our aim was to provide students with a focused and goal-oriented preview of anesthesiology which would allow students going into various fields to have an appreciation of the field.
  The one-week curriculum is a combination of lecture, simulation, operating room teaching and hands on experience aimed at providing students with some fundamentals of procedural skills and a knowledge base of anesthesia. To address the basic knowledge component, students are assigned a daily topic to review and discuss with their assigned resident mentor. From a procedural perspective, students gain basic airway management and IV skills during a half day in the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) clinic where they primarily learn bag-mask ventilation and peripheral IV techniques. They additionally have a preoperative evaluation lecture and an airway simulation workshop.
  At the end of the rotation, students are required to fill out an online survey. Feedback from the survey was used to help further modify the goal-oriented curriculum.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of the survey overall revealed students had an overwhelmingly positive experience during their week in the newly designed curriculum. Continued feedback will help us with further curriculum modifications as necessary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Margaret A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: O'Donoghue
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martel