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TRANSITION TO PRACTICE (TTP) HOME PAGE
Welcome to the University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology Transition to Practice Home Page. This web site will support our experimental Transition to Practice Rotation. On this site, you will find:
Rotation Description In this 3-month rotation, 5 CA-3 level residents will form their own private Anesthesiology Practice and run all aspects of its operation including case assignment, group management, scheduling, and billing / coding. Additional anesthesiology providers (CRNA or AA) will work with the group each day if one or two group members are on vacation or on night-float duty. The group will be responsible for the operation of four operating rooms. Four residents will be assigned to the four TTP operating rooms. Room assignments will be made by the group itself. The fifth resident will be responsible for managing the four operating rooms each day, making sure preoperative evaluations are done, and providing all needed postoperative care. The four operating rooms will be chosen each day to provide a case mix similar to private institutions in Florida and will include:
There will be a specific nurse assigned as the charge nurse of the four operating rooms. Nursing personnel will function in a fashion identical to private institutions in the Shands system and provide rapid, efficient patient care including rapid room turnovers. During this rotation, residents will be given significantly more independence with respect to developing and implementing anesthetic plans. One faculty member each day will be responsible for supervision of all four TTP operating rooms. Residents may expect that whatever faculty help is needed will be immediately provided, but that if help is not needed, faculty will generally function only in the background. By the end of the rotation, residents should have gained all necessary skills to function independently in practice, and should have significantly more comfort with their own skills when actually entering practice.
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