PURPOSE OF REVIEW Resident duty hour limits were implemented in 2003 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to improve resident wellness, increase patient safety and improve the educational environment of American residents. Now that academic anesthesiology departments and medical centers have had more than 3 years of experience under the duty hour rules, it is critical to ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of burnout and depression in anesthesiology residents has not been determined. It is also unknown whether anesthesiology resident burnout/depression may affect patient care and safety. The primary objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of burnout and depression in anesthesiology residents in the United States. We hypothesized that residents at high ris...

We assessed the attitudes of residents and program directors (PD) toward research training in Canadian anesthesiology residency programs. Questionnaires were sent to all 476 anesthesiology residents in Canada and a modified questionnaire was sent to the PD of each of the 16 anesthesiology programs between November 2003 and April 2004. There was a 60% response rate to the resident questionnaire ...

The Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Toledo has been blessed to have had two pioneers in the specialty of anesthesia as faculty members. John (Tom) T. Martin, M.D. was the second Chairman of the Department and a world expert who literally wrote the book on Positioning in Anesthesia and Surgery and associated nerve injuries. He was a prolific writer authoring or co-authoring 48 ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Understand, through the theory of social representations, the influence exerted by the establishment a residency program in anesthesiology on anesthetic care and professional motivation in a tertiary teaching hospital in the Northeast of Brazil. METHOD Qualitative methodology. The theoretical framework comprised the phenomenology and the Social Representation Theory....

IMPORTANCE Substance use disorder (SUD) among anesthesiologists and other physicians poses serious risks to both physicians and patients. Formulation of policy and individual treatment plans is hampered by lack of data regarding the epidemiology and outcomes of physician SUD. OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and outcomes of SUD among anesthesiology residents. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICI...

Luiz Eduardo Imbelloni1*, Wagner Ferreira2, Roberto Assunção Botelho de Olim3, Piccinini Viana4, Jaime Weslei Sakamoto5 and André Augusto Araujo5 Author Affiliations 1CET-SBA Hospital Clínicas Municipal São Bernardo do Campo, INCA Senior Researcher, Rio Janeiro, Brazil 2Anesthesiology Resident 3Resident in Anesthesiology of 4Responsible for CET-SBA, Anesthesiologist 5Anesthesiologist Received: ...