Clinical Anesthesiology Training for Medical Students
Anesthesiology
A clinical experience is a graduation requirement at Pitt Med. The requirement can be met by completing a two of 4-week clerkship. The 2-week experience (‘Anesthesiology: 2-week experience – MSANE 5372) is intended for students who wish a basic understanding of anesthesiology principles as they relate to physiology, pharmacology, and basic resuscitation skills like airway management and intravenous access. The 4-week experience (‘Anesthesiology: 4-Week Experience’ – (MSANE 5420) provides a more substantial opportunity for students to understand the afore mentioned and to gain experiences with sub-specialties in the field. Four-week experiences are intended for future anesthesiologists or student who intend to practice in high-tempo settings with potentially physiologically unstable patients (e.g., anesthesiology, emergency medicine, critical care medicine for adults and pediatrics, surgery, or obstetrics). Curriculum Outline/Study Guide (PDF)
Chronic Pain Medicine
This four-week elective (i.e., not a graduation requirement) provides exposure to predominantly chronic and cancer pain patients. Medical students see pain patients predominantly at the UPMC St. Margaret Pain Medicine Center and the Pain Evaluation and Treatment Institute.
Research
Anesthesiology research electives provide opportunities for medical students to learn basic research methodology, including conceiving hypotheses, experimental design, protocol development, data analysis, and statistical evaluation of research results.
Information about all the electives is available on the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s course catalog. Click on “MS-3 and MS-4” under “search the catalog”; on the next page, select “Anesthesiology” under the “Department” drop-down menu.