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ABSOLUTE APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE 2009 MATCH WHICH WILL FILL PGY-1 POSITIONS FOR JULY, 2009 and PGY-2 POSITIONS FOR JULY, 2010 IS DECEMBER 12, 2008.

UPDATE:  AS OF OCTOBER 21, 2008, ALL OUR INTERVIEW SLOTS FOR THE 2009-10 MATCHING PROGRAM HAVE BEEN FILLED.  FROM THIS POINT ONWARD, ANY APPLICATIONS REVIEWED AND FOUND COMPETITIVE FOR AN INTERVIEW WILL BE PLACED ON A WAITING LIST.  PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS DISCOURAGE YOU AS MOST PEOPLE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST ACTUALLY DO GET AN INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY AS PEOPLE COMMONLY CANCEL INTERVIEWS IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.

The Anesthesiology Residency Program at the University of Florida-College of Medicine is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The teaching resources of this program are extensive and include two fully functional anesthesia teaching simulators. Our internationally renowned faculty teaches our residents at multiple sites including Shands Hospital at the University of Florida, the Gainesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Florida Surgical Center, and the University of Florida Health Science Center in Jacksonville (Shands - Jacksonville).

Shands Hospital, the major teaching hospital at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center, is a 550-bed referral center with an integrated Children's Hospital within the same building.  During the academic year 2009-10, a new patient care tower will open directly across the street from the current facility.  That new facility is currently planned to house medical and surgical oncology and trauma care, including a state-of-the art emergency room facility capable of handling all types of trauma.  Current plans include opening 8 new operating rooms and a surgical intensive care unit - all of which will be staffed by our Department.  Exactly which service will be located there is not yet finally determined.  This web site will be updated shortly when final plans are announced. 

All specialties and subspecialties of medicine and surgery are represented at Shands Hospital.  The current Shands tower has twenty-three modern, fully equipped operating rooms as well as multiple anesthetizing locations outside the operating room.  Residents learn anesthesiology skills applicable to all types of patients in the operating rooms, surgical intensive care unit, chronic pain management clinic, obstetric suite, perioperative pain management service, and many other related areas.  In addition to traditional teaching in the general operating room, all residents have scheduled blocks of subspecialty clinical rotations taught by faculty specializing in the following areas:  pediatric, obstetric, neurosurgical, cardiothoracic, regional, and outpatient anesthesia; pain management; recovery room; and critical care medicine.  In the CA-1 year, there is a two week rotation in regional anesthesia where the resident learns basic blocks.  Afternoons will be spent in the anatomy lab doing dissections designed to reinforce concepts taught in the block room.  In the CA-2 year, residents spend an additional two weeks in the block room learning additional, more advanced level blocks.  Finally, there is a one month elective in regional anesthesia available in the CA-3 year (both at Shands Hospital and at our ambulatory facility).  Residents on this rotation perform as many as 10 blocks in a single day including such blocks as thoracic, lumbar, and cervical epidurals, lumbar plexus blocks, all types of brachial plexus blocks, femoral, sciatic, and popliteal blocks, and many others.  In addition, the Gainesville Anesthesia Simulator (see below) is used in the educational program for all.

Resident rotations at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, located directly across the street from Shands Hospital, are an integral part of the general teaching program.  The patients tend to be older, and often have chronic, as well as acute, multi-organ disease.  Case selection is varied and challenging.  Most surgical subspecialties are represented, including general surgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, orthopedics, cardiothoracic, urology, vascular, plastic and reconstructive, and neurosurgery.  Residents gain additional expertise in regional anesthetic techniques because of the nature of the surgical procedures.  Specific rotations are provided for the general operating room, cardiothoracic anesthesia, neuroanesthesia, and pain management (located at a brand new, off site, free standing pain clinic).  Because of the nature of this hospital practice and procedures, these VA Medical Center Rotations are particularly amenable to resident participation in clinical research projects.

Florida Surgical Center is a freestanding facility with four operating rooms located a few blocks from the University of Florida.  In the summer of 2007, a new, state-of-the-art 8-OR ambulatory suite with overnight stay capability opened.  Here, residents gain experience with adult patients who are evaluated as outpatients and expected to return home on the day of surgery.  Here also, residents gain exposure to a private practice like setting and learn many skills that will be helpful in that environment.  Finally, there is a specific rotation in regional anesthesia available at this site as well.

Additional elective experience in Pediatric Anesthesiology is available through our affiliation with Wolfson Children's Hospital (Nemours), also in Jacksonville, Florida.  Housing is provided here at Wolfson Children's Hospital at no cost to the resident.

Our residents can study or prepare for seminars and conferences in the electronic anesthesiology library, located in the Anesthesiology Offices near to the OR in Shands Hospital.  Our preoperative evaluation clinic has evolved into a full-service pre-surgical center and is located on the first floor of Shands Hospital within a 2-minute walk of the operating room.  In this clinic, there are seven high-end computer workstations which provide access to many different types of medical information including on-line texts, MEDLINE, on-line journals, medical consultations, on-line preoperative information and the on-line medical record system at Shands.  If further reference materials are needed, the University of Florida College of Medicine library is located next to Shands Hospital and is available to our residents.  Our departmental computer system interfaces directly with the library computer system.  Our internet connection through the University of Florida is a 10 Mbps connection providing 24-hour a day accesses to all internet resources.

Our didactic program is extensive and enhanced by the fact that our operating room schedule begins at 8:00 a.m. daily. We conduct all basic and clinical science seminars, research seminars, clinical correlation conferences, and case discussion conferences daily at 7:00 a.m., when all residents are usually free to attend (see actual on-line conference schedule in Appendix). This solves the problem existing in some teaching centers of how to free residents from the operating room for afternoon teaching conferences. In addition, residents rotating at remote sites can view conferences via the internet in real-time and are able to ask questions to the speakers.  During the first two months of each academic year, all incoming residents benefit from a special introductory lecture series (see sample conference schedule in Appendices 2 and 3). These lectures cover all important basic areas and will ease the transition from medical school or internship to safe anesthesia practice. The lectures during the remaining ten months are part of a three-year core curriculum that is updated annually based on developments in the field and on our residents' performance on standardized examinations. In addition to our highly qualified, full-time teaching staff, the department's Visiting Professor Program brings experts from other areas of the world to Gainesville to participate in our didactic teaching program. We continually strive to improve and update our teaching program.

Applications must be submitted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), and all PGY-1 2009 and PGY-2 2010 positions will be offered through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).  Applications will not be accepted prior to opening of ERAS, however.  Please read instructions carefully and provide all required documentation. 

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