For Candidates Seeking to Enter the Department of Anesthesiology Residency Program at the CA-1 Level:
WE ACCEPT APPLICATIONS THROUGH ERAS ONLY
We are excited that you are interested in Anesthesiology and are happy to respond to your request for information about training at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center on the Bowman Gray Campus. We are proud of our graduates and pleased with our current residents. Great teaching is something we value in ourselves and expect in our colleagues. We make everyone's top ten list and almost everyone's top five list of academic anesthesia departments. We are constantly striving to be the number one teaching anesthesia residency in the country.
We appoint 10 PGY-1s and 1 PGY-2s (Anesthesiology S) through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for a total of 11. We currently have 56 residents (10 PGY-1s, 16 CA-1s, 15 CA-2s, and 15 CA-3s) and 10 clinical fellows (3 Pain, 3 Critical Care, 2 Cardiac Anesthesia, and 2 Obstetric Anesthesia).
The American Board of Anesthesiology requires resident physicians to complete the Four-Year Continuum of Education in Anesthesiology. The four years include one year of non-anesthesia clinical training (Clinical Base Year) which you have already taken care of, and three years of Clinical Anesthesia training (CA-1, CA-2 and CA-3). As outlined by the American Board of Anesthesiology, the three-year Clinical Anesthesia Curriculum consists of experience in Basic Anesthesia Training (CA-1), Subspecialty Anesthesia Training (CA-2), and Advanced Anesthesia Training (CA-3). The graded curriculum increases in difficulty and provides learning experiences that progressively challenge your intellectual, interpersonal and technical skills.
At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, you will have a closely supervised first month with daily classroom didactics. In subsequent months you will become increasingly more comfortable administering anesthesia. During the latter half of the CA-1 year and throughout the CA-2 year, the residents participate in subspecialty rotations that include
·Ambulatory |
·Cardiothoracic |
·Neurosurgical |
·Obstetric |
·Other surgical subspecialties |
·Pediatric anesthesia |
·Regional anesthesia and acute pain |
·Chronic pain |
·Preoperative assessment |
·Adult and pediatric critical care |
The CA-3 year is tailored to meet each house officer's individual needs as closely as possible. The Department offers all three tracks for the CA-3 year as outlined by the American Board of Anesthesiology.
The Residency Review Committee for Anesthesiology (RRC) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has fully approved our Anesthesiology Residency Program at the Wake Forest University Medical Center for three years of Clinical Anesthesia training and the Clinical Base Year.
We also have active, full, and ACGME-approved critical care and pain management fellowships, and active and full cardiac and obstetric anesthesia fellowships. Our fellowships are regarded as the best in the country in their respective areas.
We have a faculty of 62 physicians (26% women) of diverse training backgrounds and about 57 staff nurse anesthetists. We administer about 29,000 surgical anesthetics per year in 25 inpatient, 8 outpatient, and 7 pediatric operating rooms at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, with approximately 5,000 additional anesthetics administered in satellite locations. We have an excellent variety of operative case work including neurosurgery (900 intracranial per year), open heart (800 per year), pediatric surgery (4,600 per year), level 1 trauma, and all the other surgical subspecialties. All obstetric deliveries (6,300 per year) occur in a consolidated perinatal suite at Forsyth Memorial Hospital in Winston-Salem that is completely staffed by our department. Last year the CA-1 residents averaged 349 cases; CA-2s, 561; and CA-3s, 435 per year. Typically, each of our residents administers 100 spinal and 300 epidural anesthetics throughout his or her residency.
In addition to the extensive one-month introductory course for new house officers, we organize three regularly scheduled teaching conferences per week during the academic year in addition to regularly scheduled subspecialty anesthesia conferences, usually with resident presentations, and journal clubs. We also have a very active Visiting Professor program. Mock orals are administered twice yearly. We are excited about our Patient Simulator Laboratory that is up and running.
We welcome resident participation in basic, translational, or clinical research. Several residents each year have presented papers at regional and national meetings. It is now possible to intersperse six months of research throughout your four years of anesthesia training.
We think you have made a good choice by declaring an interest in anesthesiology as a profession. We look forward to receiving your application and hope that we shall have the opportunity of having you visit our Department. The Resident Recruitment Committee will review your application file and notify you in writing regarding an interview.
Sincerely yours,
Raymond C. Roy, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor and Chair
P.S. For additional information you may contact Mrs. Carrol Stuart, our Resident Recruitment Assistant, at (336) 716-4426 or via email at cstuart@wfubmc.edu.