Department of Anesthesiology
Medical Student Education
IDPT 410 | ANEST 402 | ANEST 403
| IDPT 410 | Surgical Subspecialites | (Dr. Rattan and Staff) | |
| Credits 9. All Teaching Blocks Enrollment: maximum 39 |
A required, six-week course with exposure to Anesthesiology, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Urology.
| ANEST 402 | Subinternship | (Dr. Jan and Staff) | |
| Credits 6. 11th through 21st Teaching Blocks. Enrollment: minimum 1, maximum 5 |
This comprehensive elective introduces the medical student to preoperative
evaluation, intraoperative and postoperative anesthesia management
of surgical patients. Emphasis is placed on the principles of
anesthesia (general and regional), physiology of various organ systems,
anesthetic pharmacology and hemodynamic monitoring. The elective is especially valuabe for students contemplating a career in Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Surgery, or Emergency Medicine.
The medical student works as a member of the anesthesia care team,
interacting with staff anesthesiologists and residents.
Hands on technical experience of establishing intravenous access, noninvasive/
invasive hemodynamic monitoring, various airway management
and regional anesthesia techniques are taught under close staff
supervision. The operating room teaching is supplemented by twice
weekly lectures. Students also get an opportunity to go to the Anesthesia Simulation Center and participate in a case with a resident. During their rotation, students do not have any overnight
call obligations.
The last week of the rotation can be spent in the subspecialty of the
student’s choice; i.e., cardiac, neurosurgery, obstetrics anesthesia or
acute pain management.
| ANEST. 403 | Pain Management | (Dr. Wang and Staff) | |
| Credits 6. 11th through 21st Teaching Blocks. Enrollment: minimum 1, maximum 1 Enrollment by arrangement only (contact Marilyn Reiter at 215-955-6161) |
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The student is a member of the pain management team and applies the principles of evaluation of patients with acute and chronic pain syndromes. Time will be spent in the postoperative acute pain service and in the chronic pain clinic. Teaching stresses the need for a complex, multidisciplinary approach to pain problems. The course is useful for students planning a career in anesthesia as well as those who will encounter patients with chronic pain syndromes in family medicine, internal medicine, and surgical practices.
Rehana A. Jan, MD.
Coordinator for Anesthesia Electives
Neeru Rattan, MD
Medical Student Coordinator for IDPT
410
Marilyn Reiter
Administrative Secretary
111 S. 11th Street
Suite 8490 Gibbon
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 955-6161
(215) 923-5507 fax
