Graduate medical education in anaesthesiology and COVID-19: lessons learned from a global pandemic.

Purpose Of Review: The recent global pandemic has dramatically altered the anaesthesiology educational landscape in unexpected ways. It is important that we pause to learn from this crisis.

Recent Findings: Most resident trainees actively caring for COVID-19 patients present with probable or subclinical finding of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for Virtual Residency Interviews.

This perspective from a variety of stakeholders including aspiring surgeons, a current department chair for education, and a current chair of surgery advocates for making virtual residency interviews a permanent part of the match process. We delineate how a shift to virtual residency interviews can save applicants time and money, enhance equity in the match, and ultimately strengthen a program's ability to assess applicants.

Does Choice of Steroid Matter for Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain with Sacroiliac Joint Injections: a Retrospective Study.

Purpose Of Review: Prevalence of chronic low back pain (cLBP) is increasing. Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) is a common source of cLBP, but data behind its diagnosis and treatment is controversial. There is moderate quality evidence for effectiveness of therapeutic SIJ injections.

Resource Utilization in Implementation of a Point of Care Ultrasound Curriculum for Resident Training in Anesthesiology.

: Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) brings high-quality patient care to the bedside but continues to be an expensive training to implement in a residency program. There are multiple resources available to train providers in ultrasound, but they are all associated with significant cost. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates anesthesiology residents to be competent in diagnostic and therapeutic uses of ultrasound.

The Feasibility of Incorporating a Flipped Classroom Model in an Anesthesia Residency Curriculum-Pilot Study.

: Medical education is evolving to incorporate learner-centered strategies which encourage student engagement. Educators need to ensure that meaningful education occurs within limited interaction time between teachers and trainees. The Flipped Classroom (FC) model combines the use of both online and face-to-face interaction.

Role of in-situ simulation for training in healthcare: opportunities and challenges.

Purpose Of Review: Simulation has now been acknowledged as an important part of training in healthcare, and most academic hospitals have a dedicated simulation center. In-situ simulation occurs in patient care units with scenarios involving healthcare professionals in their actual working environment. The purpose of this review is to describe the process of putting together the components of in-situ simulation for training programs and to review outcomes studied, and challenges with this approach.

The changing landscape of anesthesia education: is Flipped Classroom the answer?

Purpose Of Review: Educators in the specialty of anesthesiology are facing a number of challenges. A new generation of residents are entering the specialty and they have unique learning styles and expectations. The new duty hour regulations also encroach on the time available to the residents for education.

Threat and error management for anesthesiologists: a predictive risk taxonomy.

Purpose Of Review: Patient care in the operating room is a dynamic interaction that requires cooperation among team members and reliance upon sophisticated technology. Most human factors research in medicine has been focused on analyzing errors and implementing system-wide changes to prevent them from recurring. We describe a set of techniques that has been used successfully by the aviation industry to analyze errors and adverse events and explain how these techniques can be applied to patient care.

Concern for pain in the pre-operative period- is the internet being used for information by patients?

Objectives: This study was conducted to provide information regarding prevalence of pain, type of provider managing pain, and use of Internet for information regarding pain, among patients coming for presurgical anesthesia consultation at a major academic institution.

Methods: With IRB approval, patients were invited to participate in a voluntary and anonymous 14 question survey given to them when they presented for anesthesia consultation prior to their surgical procedure. The qualitative/categorical data were summarized by number (percentage [%]) and analyzed by Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test as appropriate.

Blended learning in anesthesia education: current state and future model.

Purpose Of Review: Educators in anesthesia residency programs across the country are facing a number of challenges as they attempt to integrate blended learning techniques in their curriculum. Compared with the rest of higher education, which has made advances to varying degrees in the adoption of online learning anesthesiology education has been sporadic in the active integration of blended learning. The purpose of this review is to discuss the challenges in anesthesiology education and relevance of the Universal Design for Learning framework in addressing them.

Anesthesia 2.0: internet-based information resources and Web 2.0 applications in anesthesia education.

Purpose Of Review: Informatics is a broad field encompassing artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, information science, and social science. The goal of this review is to illustrate how Web 2.0 information technologies could be used to improve anesthesia education.