Anesthesia MD Education in Indianapolis

Faculty: Ryan Harris, MD

Description
Only students going into anesthesia as their specialty are approved to sign up for this course. The St. Vincent anesthesia elective will consist of daily reading, an airway workshop, working in the OR one on one with an anesthesiologist, and a quiz at the end of the month. The educational focus will be on airway, fluids, autonomics, and cardiovascular physiology with additional topics available as desired by the student. Students should expect to get more than just intubation experience and should be prepared for daily didactics and required reading throughout the month. This is a great course to improve the understanding of private practice anesthesia, general knowledge on the previous topics mentioned, and procedural skills. Goal: Improve understanding anesthesia as a profession, improve knowledge on general medicine topics, and improve procedural skills.

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Tyler Fletcher

Faculty: Jian Ye, MD

Description

Students will be exposed to a variety of facets of pediatric anesthesia. The two week elective includes predominantly OR anesthesia. The student will also spend some time with certified child life specialists, acute pain service, chronic pain service, and preoperative evaluation clinic as time permits. Book chapters and review articles are provided for most of these activities. 

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Primary Contact:
Aesthesia education team — anesume@iu.edu

This elective does not participate in the initial senior match. Students should contact the anesthesia education team at anesume@iu.edu if interested in enrolling in this course. One student is preferred enrollment. This is a two week, two credit elective. Students interested in anesthesia are given priority to register for this elective.

Faculty: Yar Luan Yeap, MD

Description

Student will learn about data collection for clinical research, including building the data collection tools and analyzing the data. Student will also learn to write an IRB protocol and understand the process behind a clinical research.

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Primary Contact:
Yar Luan Yeap, MD

 

Faculty: Timothy T. Webb, MD

Description

The discipline of anesthesia is closely connected with critical care medicine. Most often, students interested in a career in anesthesia often experience the operating room and intensive care unit in separate clinical experiences. This elective allows for students to experience both during a two-week elective. Students will spend one week with a critical care trained anesthesiologist on service caring for patients in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). During the second week, students will have the opportunity to work with anesthesia residents and faculty in the operating room delivering clinical anesthesia to surgical patients.

 

Primary Contact:
Anesthesia education team — anesume@iu.edu

This elective does not participate in the initial senior match. Students should contact the anesthesia education team at anesume@iu.edu if interested in enrolling in this course. One student is preferred enrollment. This is a two week, two credit elective. Students interested in anesthesia are given priority to register for this elective.

Faculty: Andrew Kohner, MD

Description

During this elective, you will be introduced to medical education research in the field of anesthesiology and/or anesthesia simulation. You will complete a research project during this elective that can be written on your CV and placed under the research box in your ERAS residency application. If you are interested, this smaller research project can be turned into a poster presentation or publication. Possible poster presentation locations include Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists Meeting, American Society of Anesthesiologists Meeting, Society of Education in Anesthesia Meeting, or International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare.

This is an online elective.

Primary Contact:
Anesthesia education team — anesume@iu.edu

Faculty: Wen Chen, MD

Description

Medical students will be exposed to the writings of thought leaders in the business of medicine and medical leadership. The changing landscape of health care reform and finance will alter the perception and role of future physicians. The goal of this elective is to broaden the scope of medical school curriculum and move beyond individual clinical achievement. The reading month is divided into four one-week modules. Each week, students will invest four days in assigned reading and one day in reflection and writing. Students will submit a two to three page essay weekly on various topics related to leadership, culminating in a vision statement as a future physician leader.

Primary Contact:

Wen Chen, MD (chenwj@iu.edu)

 

Faculty: Tejinder Soi, MD

Description:

The primary aim of this course is to achieve a foundational level of understanding for the practice of anesthesiology through involvement in the continuous care of patients preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively until PACU discharge. In addition, students will be exposed to at least one subspecialty area such as pediatric anesthesiology, acute pain management, or obstetric anesthesiology.

Students will interact with residents and faculty to gain insight into anesthesiology training program expectations. This course is designed to emphasize critical thinking, deductive reasoning, clinical decision-making, and problem-based learning. Active learning will include cognitive, affective, communication, and interpersonal skill development as a perioperative team member. Clinical experience will be complemented by clinical teaching, didactic sessions/modules, and departmental conferences. Independent and self-directed learning will be required through Canvas modules, assigned reading, case discussions, and reflective writing.

Students may work a few late afternoon and evening shifts in order to experience call-like schedules and cases, but neither in-house nor at-home call is required. Students may have the opportunity to participate in simulation sessions with residents and faculty. Assignment to specific teaching hospitals will be arranged by the course director.

Primary Contact:

Anesthesia education team (anesume@iu.edu)

Faculty: Tejinder Soi, MD

Description:

The primary aim of this course is to achieve a foundational level of understanding for the practice of anesthesiology through involvement in the continuous care of patients preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively until PACU discharge. In addition, students will be exposed to at least one subspecialty area such as pediatric anesthesiology, acute pain management, or obstetric anesthesiology.  

Students will interact with residents and faculty to gain insight into anesthesiology training program expectations. This course is designed to emphasize critical thinking, deductive reasoning, clinical decision making, and problem-based learning. Active learning will include cognitive, affective, communication, and interpersonal skill development as a perioperative team member. Clinical experience will be complemented by clinical teaching, didactic sessions/modules, and departmental conferences. Independent and self-directed learning will be required through Canvas modules, assigned reading, case discussions, and reflective writing.

Students may work a few late afternoon and evening shifts in order to experience call-like schedules and cases, but neither in-house nor at-home call is required. Students may have opportunity to participate in simulation sessions with residents and faculty. Assignment to specific teaching hospitals will be arranged by the course director.

Primary Contact:

Anesthesia education team (anesume@iu.edu)

Faculty: Sanjay Kuber, MD

Description

This elective will introduce the student to pain management through participation in the evaluation and treatment of patients seen at the Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis. Students will gain exposure to a vast variety of interventional pain procedures including the most advanced procedures in pain management e.g.: spinal cord stimulators, implanted pain pumps, radiofrequency ablations, kyphoplasty, and MILD procedures.

The rotation will consist of outpatient chronic pain management and inpatient consults are evaluated regularly. In addition, students will get exposure to acute postoperative pain management and different regional anesthesia techniques.

Primary Contact:
Anesthesia education team — anesume@iu.edu