University of Ottawa
Anesthesia Residency Program
Career Night 2012
Desiree Persaud MD FRCPC
Program Director Anesthesia
Associate Professor University of Ottawa
Our Program
• Ottawa Anesthesia training program one of the
best in the country.
• Always matches in the first round!
• Second biggest in the country
• Flies through accreditation every cycle.
• One of the best track records for success on
the royal college exams
• 7 CMG CaRMS positions.
Do anesthesioloigists put people to
“sleep”?
• NOT what we do!!
• Medically induced coma.
• Highly potent anesthetic agents that have effects on
every major body system. Must be pharmacology and
physiology experts.
What so we do in anesthesia other
than “put people to sleep”?
– The one everyone calls when they need help!
• Peripheral lines
• Invasive lines
• The airway expert
– Specialists in acute care medicine
– Specialist in perioperative medical care
– Specialist in acute pain management
– Specialist in interventional surgical and chronic pain
management
– Code team member: cardiac arrest, trauma team
– Interventional procedural training:
– U/S lines, regional blocks, echo
(transthoraic/esophageal)
Day to day experiences
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High variety: neurosurg, vascular, peds, cardiac,
Extremes of Age, co-morbities, surgical pathology
Clinic work: pre-assessment, chronic pain, acute pain
Majority of our work is acute in nature
Days have a defined beginning and end. When you are
off you are off!!
• Job security: Always work for us: academic, community,
locum.
• One of the first specialties that recognized the impact of
work fatigue: 24 hour call for staff at TOH: non existent
• One of the first residency programs to embrace; duty
hour restriction:
Major participating Hospitals
• The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus
• The Ottawa Hospital General Campus
• The Ottawa Hospital Riverside Campus
• The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
• The University of Ottawa Heart Institute
The Ottawa Hospital: Civic campus
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46 staff Anesthetists
10-12 residents at a time
Major surgical specialties
Vascular Center
Neuro-surgery Center
Regional Trauma Center
Nationally/Internationally
recognized Regional
Anesthesia Centre
• Critical care unit
• Internationally recognized
model Pre-Admission Unit
The Ottawa Hospital General Campus
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31 Staff Anesthetists
8 residents at a time
Thoracic Center
Oncologic Surgery Center
Hyperbaric Oxygen Unit
High Risk Obstetrical Unit
Critical care unit
A multidisciplinary Chronic
Pain Centre
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
(C.H.E.O)
• 17 Staff Anesthetist
• 5-7 residents at a time
• Serves Western Quebec
and Eastern Ontario
• All major surgical
procedures including
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
• 14 staff Anesthetists
• 2 rotations: one as a junior
and one as a senior
• 1-2 residents at a time in
CSICU
• TEE teaching emphasized
in the senior rotation
Riverside Campus
• Ambulatory Care
• Outpatient Regional
anesthesia catheter service
• Eye Care Center
Simulation Centre
• The uOSSC (University of Ottawa
Skills and Simulation Centre) was newly
opened in 2010.
• It is the largest centre in Canada.
• Each resident attends two
simulation half days per year.
• In addition there are a number of multi-team sessions eg
Obstetrics scenarios and a newly planned trauma team session.
• There are also a number of on-going education research sessions
eg TEE training
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In May/June the PGY-1s also have a boot camps called the TIC
course:(Transition to Independent call)
PGY
1 Rotation Requirements
Emergency
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Radiology
Cardiology
Respirology
Adult ICU
Pre-Assessment Unit/APS
Pediatric Emergency
General Surgery
Electives
Anesthesia
Obstetrics
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Information
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http://www.med.uottawa.ca/anesthesia/eng/index.html
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