Background: The American Association of Medical Colleges deemed performing lifesaving procedures, such as airway management, a necessary medical student competency for transitioning to residency. Anesthesiology clerkships provide the unique opportunity for medical students to practice these procedures in a safe and controlled environment. We aimed to develop a checklist that assesses medical students' ability to perform the main steps of a general anesthesia induction with endotracheal intubation in the clinical setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Leaders in anesthesiology are promoting increased involvement of anesthesiologists in perioperative medicine (POM). Academic leaders are calling for a corresponding increase in resident and medical student education in this evolving medical discipline. Formalized POM programs are new to most academic anesthesiology programs, and very little has been written about development of these programs for anesthesiology residents or medical students.
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