Curriculum & Academics
Anesthesia Boot Camp
Residents will participate in a week-long anesthesia “boot camp”, which has been operating for over 10 years with great success. This week focuses on practical/technical aspects of anesthesia and crisis resource management through simulation didactic sessions and skill-specific training sessions.
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Curriculum
Academics
Educational rounds and formal teaching sessions occur on a weekly basis. There is a curriculum of didactic problem-based or simulation-based learning sessions on topics specifically relevant to the FP-Anesthetist. A wide selection of anesthesia reference textbooks, electronic library resources, and computer services are also available for use by the residents.
Clinical Curriculum: Rotation Schedule
Core Anesthesia: 32 weeks
Sudbury
Sault Ste. Marie
The majority of your training at NOSM University will occur at one of the major northern referral centers. Both the Sudbury regional and Sault Area hospitals are REGIONAL referral centers. As such, there is more than sufficient volume and acuity of cases to ensure a well-rounded, relevant education. Residents will work closely with interested, enthusiastic anesthesiologists and MAY train concurrently with royal college streamed residents. Some core anesthesia training will occur in smaller urban centers in Northern Ontario.
Your first Clinical rotation will always be an Anesthesia rotation in your home base. At the beginning of this rotation, four complete days of orientation will occur in the Simulation Laboratory/Hospital settings.
Consolidative Family Practice: 4 weeks
Parry Sound
Huntsville
Kenora
Kapuskasing
Dryden
As required by the College of Family Physicians, you will spend one month in a comprehensive family practice setting with a Family Practice Anesthetist. Days will be spent doing whatever it is the preceptor does. This may include but is not limited to, family practice anesthesia, emergency medicine, and office practice. Because of the nature of the rotation, it is usually spent in a more rural area.
Community Anesthesia: 4 weeks
North Bay
Timmins
Huntsville
Bracebridge
Kenora
Sioux Lookout
Parry Sound
Intensive Care: 4 weeks in the second half of the year
Sudbury
Pediatric Anesthesia: 8 weeks in the second half of the year
Ottawa (CHEO)
You will spend two consecutive months in Ottawa at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). The high volume of cases ensures a good exposure to a broad range of pediatric anesthesia. This will provide you with enhanced skills and comfort in dealing with pediatric patients.
NOSMU Anesthesiology eLearning Platform (eLP)
Critical to moving toward an effective, competency-based, distributed education program that keeps residents informed on their progress and connected to the program was the creation of the eLearning Platform. There are multiple aspects to this personalized webspace that includes schedules, resources, access to policies, databases, and evaluations. It doesn’t matter what rotation the residents are on…they will always have access to the academic program!
Resources/Publications
Resident Resources
Self-Care Resources
Recent Scholarly Work
Simulation Training
Simulation plays a major role in the active learning curriculum of the NOSM U family practice anesthesia residency program. Our simulation program incorporates high-fidelity simulation with mannequins, hybrid patients, and standardized patients. We have access to HSN’s new state-of-the-art simulation center which opened in the fall of 2021!