Career Night 2012Desiree Persaud MD FRCPCProgram Director AnesthesiaAssociate Professor University of Ottawa

University of OttawaAnesthesia Residency Program

Our Program

• Ottawa Anesthesia training program one of the best in the country.

• Always matches in the first round!• Second biggest in the country• Flies through accreditation every cycle.• One of the best track records for success on

the royal college exams• 7 CMG CaRMS positions.

Do anesthesioloigists put people to “sleep”?• NOT what we do!!• Medically induced coma.• Highly potent anesthetic agents that have effects on

every major body system. Must be pharmacology and physiology experts.

What so we do in anesthesia other than “put people to sleep”?

– The one everyone calls when they need help!• Peripheral lines• Invasive lines• The airway expert

– Specialists in acute care medicine– Specialist in perioperative medical care– Specialist in acute pain management– Specialist in interventional surgical and chronic pain

management– Code team member: cardiac arrest, trauma team– Interventional procedural training:– U/S lines, regional blocks, echo

(transthoraic/esophageal)

Day to day experiences

• High variety: neurosurg, vascular, peds, cardiac, • Extremes of Age, co-morbities, surgical pathology• Clinic work: pre-assessment, chronic pain, acute pain• Majority of our work is acute in nature• Days have a defined beginning and end. When you are

off you are off!!• Job security: Always work for us: academic, community,

locum.• One of the first specialties that recognized the impact of

work fatigue: 24 hour call for staff at TOH: non existent• One of the first residency programs to embrace; duty

hour restriction:

• The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus

• The Ottawa Hospital General Campus

• The Ottawa Hospital Riverside Campus

• The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario

• The University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Major participating Hospitals

The Ottawa Hospital: Civic campus• 46 staff Anesthetists• 10-12 residents at a time• Major surgical specialties• Vascular Center• Neuro-surgery Center• Regional Trauma Center• Nationally/Internationally

recognized Regional Anesthesia Centre

• Critical care unit• Internationally recognized

model Pre-Admission Unit

The Ottawa Hospital General Campus

• 31 Staff Anesthetists• 8 residents at a time• Thoracic Center• Oncologic Surgery Center• Hyperbaric Oxygen Unit• High Risk Obstetrical Unit• Critical care unit• A multidisciplinary Chronic

Pain Centre

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (C.H.E.O) • 17 Staff Anesthetist

• 5-7 residents at a time• Serves Western Quebec

and Eastern Ontario• All major surgical

procedures including Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

University of Ottawa Heart Institute

• 14 staff Anesthetists• 2 rotations: one as a junior

and one as a senior• 1-2 residents at a time in

CSICU• TEE teaching emphasized

in the senior rotation

Riverside Campus

• Ambulatory Care• Outpatient Regional

anesthesia catheter service

• Eye Care Center

Simulation Centre• The uOSSC (University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre) was newly opened in 2010. • It is the largest centre in Canada.

• Each resident attends two simulation half days per year. • In addition there are a number of multi-team sessions eg Obstetrics

scenarios and a newly planned trauma team session. • There are also a number of on-going education research sessions

eg TEE training

• In May/June the PGY-1s also have a boot camps called the TIC course:(Transition to Independent call)

PGY 1 Rotation Requirements• Emergency 1 block• Radiology 1 block • Cardiology 1 block • Respirology 1 block• Adult ICU 1 block • Pre-Assessment Unit/APS 1 block • Pediatric Emergency 1 block • General Surgery 1 block • Electives 1 block • Anesthesia 3 blocks• Obstetrics 1 block

Additional Information• http://www.med.uottawa.ca/anesthesia/eng/index.html •