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Division Overview
Welcome to the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia under the auspices of the Department of Anesthesia at Tufts Medical Center. The Division was founded in the mid 1950’s by Dr. Robert. N. Reynolds, a very distinguished physician and teacher. The division maintains a prominent role within the medical center and runs an active clinical program.
Rotation Overview
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates a minimum of 2 months of Training in Pediatric Anesthesia. Our program however is structured to provide you with a minimum of 3 months of mandatory training. Additional time may be requested and granted by the Program Director in the CA3 year. You will be assigned to your first pediatric anesthesia rotation towards the latter half of your CA1 year.
During the Pediatric Anesthesia Rotation you will be exposed to the fundamentals of our subspecialty. You will gain understanding and learn clinical skills to take care of infants and children in the pre, intr-aop and postoperative period. You will begin with taking care of simple straight forward cases in your CA1 year and you will slowly advance to taking care of more complicated cases with complex medical problems during your CA2 and CA3 rotation months.
Your experience during this rotation will be directed toward achieving certain goals and objectives. These are intended to assist you in gaining an understanding of this subspecialty, achieving general competencies appropriate for all physicians, and building upon those attributes necessary to become Diplomates of the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Some of the Goals and Learning Objectives are marked ADVANCED (ADV) to help you better guide, plan and structure your course curriculum. The goals and objectives are progressive in nature and different residents may reach them at different times. However minimal expectations at each level of training are summarized at the end of this document.
You may download and print the detailed Pediatric Anesthesia Rotation Goals and Objectives from the Department Intranet.
Concentrating and focusing on the basics will strengthen your fundamentals and help you manage more complex cases later in your training as you advance into your CA3 year. The CA3 Rotations will differ substantially from the experience of the previous two years. There will be an increase both in the complexity of patients and the level of responsibility.
Our program is unique in the sense that Pediatric Anesthesia is taught and experienced as a continuum throughout the residency training rather than just being restricted to the stipulated 3 months. This is because we have an integrated tertiary level Children’s Hospital (Floating Hospital for Children) on the premises and residents form an integral part of the pediatric anesthesia team after their first pediatric rotation. We take pride in the fact that our residents are very competent and comfortable in taking safe, high quality care of children by the time they graduate.
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