Preceptors: Ken Sutin, MD, and Elie Geara, MD
Course Code: 01-01
Coordinator: Ekaterina Tenety
Telephone: 212-562-6571

NYU Grossman School of Medicine Student Prerequisites: One Core Clerkship in Medicine or Surgery. The NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Dean’s Office must approve all students.

Visiting Medical Student Prerequisites:

• Completion of both Medicine and Surgery Core Clerkships.
• Please refer to NYU Grossman School of Medicine Information for Visiting MD Students for eligibility, requirements, and application process. The NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Dean’s Office must approve all visiting students.
• In addition, Visiting Students for the anesthesiology elective are required to submit a medical school transcript and USMLE Step 1 score.
• Please review additional information about applying for the anesthesiology elective as a visiting medical student.

Description

The Department of Anesthesiology offers a four-week elective for clerkship and post-clerkship students and visiting students. You will do one-week rotations at Bellevue Hospital, Tisch Hospital, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, and Pain Medicine at Tisch Hospital. We do not offer a rotation at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn.

This comprehensive elective introduces the student to preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management and postoperative routine and critical care. Emphasis is placed on the scientific foundations of anesthesia, including organ-system pathophysiology, autonomic and anesthetic pharmacology, and hemodynamic monitoring. Morning case conferences and afternoon topical lectures will supplement operating room patient care responsibilities. In the operating room, there is a one-to-one teaching by both anesthesia residents and faculty. The student may elect to do a one-week rotation in a specialty field of anesthesia, e.g., obstetrics, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic or pediatrics. On-call responsibilities at Bellevue Hospital are elective and will be one evening per week during which time the student will work with the Bellevue Team Captain.

Objectives of the Elective

This elective introduces the student to preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management and postoperative care. The student will obtain a basic understanding of anesthesia, including organ-system pathophysiology, autonomic and anesthetic pharmacology, and hemodynamic monitoring.

Key Responsibilities of the student while on Elective

1. To follow the course syllabus.
2. To perform a preoperative anesthetic evaluation with the assistance of the resident.
3. To acquire a basic understanding of airway management and use of airway devices, face mask, laryngeal mask airway, video laryngoscopy, laryngeal mask airway, and bronchoscope.
4. To understand the patient's medical problems, the anesthetic implications and to help develop a rational anesthetic plan.
5. To assist the anesthesia resident in setting up the operating room in the morning and participate in the case management during the day.
6. To attend teaching conferences, lectures, and departmental conferences.

Didactic Program:

In general, the program is as follows:

• 6:45AM – 7AM Anesthesia Management Conference at Bellevue
• 7:30AM – 4PM in the Operating Room.
• 12:00PM Lecture/Rounds at Bellevue, 4:00PM Preoperative/postoperative patient evaluations.
• 2PM Daily Lectures via Webex.
• Every Monday 6:45M Grand Rounds, Visiting Professor Lecture via Webex.
• Every Tuesday 5:00PM Departmental PBLI via Webex.
• Simulation session are usually held at the Manhattan VA Thursdays at 2PM, schedule will be emailed.
• At the end of the elective, students are asked to prepare a presentation on a topic of interest.

Method of Evaluation:

Evaluation is based on performance and participation during the rotation, knowledge and growth, patient interaction, ability to work as a team member, conference attendance, and completed evaluation forms.

Scheduling Information:

Months Offered: August–June
Duration: 4 weeks
Report To: Ken Sutin, MD and Elie Geara, MD–Bellevue Hospital, Room 12E12, Anesthesia conference room at 6:45am.
Students per Period: 10

Note: For this specific elective, visiting student applications will be processed through AAMC’s Visiting Student Learning Opportunities (VSLO) program. The VSLO Application Service (aka VSAS) enables students to browse and apply for this elective.