Anesthesia CA-3/PGY-4 Resident Rotations
CA-3/PGY-4 Anesthesia Rotations
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CA-3/PGY-4 residents choose from two training tracks in their final year, the Clinical Scientist or Advanced Clinical. Our department is unique in allowing the CA-3/PGY-4 year to be completely elective-based and designed to meet the needs of the individual resident.
The third year rotation options include the following:
| Rotation | Duration |
| Advanced Anesthesia* | One to Six Months |
| Ambulatory Anesthesia | One to Four Months |
| Cardiac Anesthesia (option to complete TEE training month) | One to Four Months |
| Critical Care | One to Four Months |
| Neuroanesthesia | One to Four Months |
| Obstetrical Anesthesia | One to Three Months |
| Pain Medicine | One to Three Months |
| Pediatrics (at Children's Hospital) | One to Three Months |
| Regional Anesthesia | One Month |
| Research | One to Six Months |
| Simulation | One Month |
| Thoracic Anesthesia | One Month |
| Vascular Anesthesia | One to Three Months |
*Senior residents are assigned to complex, high acuity cases in the main operating rooms such as bariatric surgery, hepatobiliary surgeries, trauma and complex surgical oncology and endocrine cases. BIDMC is one of the 30 nationally recognized National Pancreas Foundation Centers that provide multidisciplinary care for complex pancreatic diseases. We are also a nationally recognized bariatric center and a Level 1 trauma center. In addition to complex Main OR cases, residents on advanced rotation will also provide anesthesia care in complex interventional radiology cases performed at BIDMC such as tumor embolizations, TIPS, and radiofrequency ablations.