Anesthesiology
An anesthesiologist is a medical practitioner trained in anesthesia and perioperative medicine. Anesthesiologists are the most extensively trained anesthesia providers in the United States.
Anaesthetists provide medical care to patients in a wide variety of (usually acute) situations, including preoperative evaluation, consultation with the surgical team, creation of a plan for the anesthesia tailored to each individual patient, airway management, intraoperative life support and provision of pain control, intraoperative diagnostic stabilisation, proper post-operative management of patients. Outside the operating room, an anaesthetist's spectrum of action includes with in-hospital and pre-hospital emergencies, intensive care units, acute pain units and chronic pain consultations.
Anesthesiologists in the United States must have completed an undergraduate college degree (that includes pre-medical requirements) and, like all other physicians, four years of medical school. Anesthesiology residency programs in the United States, without exception, require successful completion of four years of residency training for board certification eligibility in the specialty of anesthesiology. An anesthesiology residency requires a one-year medical or surgical internship followed by three years of anesthesiology training. Anesthesiology residents face multiple examinations during their second, third, and fourth years of residency, including exams encompassing physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and other medical sciences addressed in medical school, along with multiple anesthesia knowledge tests which assess progress during residency. Successful completion of a board exam after completion of residency is required for board certification.
The total average compensation for full-time anesthesiologists is roughly $456,000, and the average gross revenue per anesthesiologist is almost three times that amount. In the USA, there has been a shortage of anaesthetists historically. In order to better serve the population, residency positions in anaesthesia for physicians have been steadily increasing the past several years. The number of jobs are rounding to about 170,400 according to statistics in 2014.
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Top schools for Anesthesia programs
- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
- USCF School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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