Curriculum
UT Southwestern proudly serves as home to an impressive resume of diverse faculty, cutting-edge technology, and a world-class simulation center. These resources foster a supportive and clinically robust experience throughout each year of residency. Our mission is to provide every trainee a solid foundation of skills on which to base their individual skillsets that will serve them for the rest of their career.
Intern year serves to establish a broad foundation of medical knowledge across a variety of specialties which fundamentally relate to anesthesiology. These include internal medicine, pulmonology, emergency medicine, critical care. This clinical base year also provides the opportunity to rotate in our anesthesia preoperative clinic and work alongside anesthesia residents and faculty. Intern year culminates in a month-long anesthesia bootcamp in June, termed “Vapor Camp,” where residents learn the fundamentals of anesthesia to hit the ground running as new CA-1s in July.
During the CA-1 year, trainees master the basics of general anesthesiology while reciving additional exposure to sub-specialties such as critical care, burn anesthesia, and non-operating room anesthesia.
During their senior years, our trainees further refine these skills as they relate to the major subspecialties in the field of anesthesiology including:
- Chronic Pain
- Regional/Acute Pain
- Cardiac and Vascular Anesthesia
- Pediatric Anesthesia
- Neuroanesthesia
- Advanced Obseteric Anesthesia
- Critical Care Medicine
- Transplant Anesthesia
- Operating Room Scheduling and Management
Throughout residency, trainees also participate in a longitudinal curriculum consisting of monthly resident simulation activities, novel point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) courses, resident research opportunities, quality improvement, and individually focused professional development.
