Career Advising - Anesthesiology | Tulane School of Medicine

What Does Training Look Like?

Anesthesiology requires an internship (most frequently in surgery, internal medicine, or a transitional (rotating) year), followed by three years of training in clinical anesthesiology. Fellowships in a variety of specialties are available, and typically last a year.

Subspecialties

There are many subspecialties including: Regional Anesthesiology; Obstetric Anesthesiology; Pain Management/Pain Medicine; Cardiac Anesthesiology; Pediatric Anesthesiology; Transplant Anesthesiology; Critical Care Anesthesiology; and more.

What Does a Typical Workday Look Like?

Anesthesiologists spend little time in clinic, although residents may be assigned to the pre-op clinic. Anesthesiology is primarily an operating-room based specialty, with physicians generally reporting to the hospital around 6 am and leaving the hospital between 3 to 5pm on a normal workday.

Important Qualities and Traits

Qualities recognized as important to anesthesiology include:

Organizational skills
Vigilance
Attention to detail
Punctuality

Shadowing Opportunities

For shadowing opportunities, please contact the Anesthesiology Department at 504-988-5068.

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Research Opportunities

To learn about how to get involved in research conducted in anesthesiology, click here . Please contact the primary researcher for more information.

Additionally, students may want to pursue research opportunities through the DeBakey Scholars Program. This program offers medical students the opportunity to pursue and complete a longitudinal, structured, closely supervised research experience culminating in a capstone presentation prior to graduation. For more information, contact Dr. Derek Pociask.

Specialty Interest Group

The purpose in creating the Tulane Anesthesiology Interest Group is to provide medical students with an outlet to learn about the field of Anesthesiology and to provide a forum of discussion for those students interested in the field of Anesthesiology.

The Tulane Anesthesiology Interest Group goals:

Provide an open forum for discussion about the field of Anesthesiology
Provide guidance and advice about choosing a career in Anesthesiology
Arrange regular meetings and guest speakers
Provide a network of students and physicians interested in the field of Anesthesiology

Anyone who would like to participate in the Tulane Anesthesiology Interest Group is welcome, and membership will never be required to participate in any of the interest groups events.

Who are the Specialty Academic/Career Advisors for this Specialty?

Please contact the following for information about careers in anesthesiology:

Katherine Cox, MD

Assistant Professor

Anesthesia Residency Program Director

Dawn Tiemann, MD

Assistant Professor

Anesthesia Medical Student Rotation Director

Gary Haynes, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair

Anesthesiology

Recommended T3 & T4 Coursework

Students interested in anesthesiology may want to take a two-week rotation in their third year or early in their fourth year to decide if they want to pursue a career in this area. If students are interested in pursuing another specialty, but would like knowledge of anesthesiology, they can take this elective later in their fourth year.

Specialty Statistics

Summary Statistics (from "Charting Outcomes in the Match 2022")

Summary Statistics on U.S. MD Seniors

Anesthesiology

Matched

Measure (n=1,050)

1. Mean number of contiguous ranks	15.7
2. Mean number of distinct specialties ranked	1.4
3. Mean USMLE Step 1 score	237
4. Mean USMLE Step 2 score	248
5. Mean number of research experiences	3.7
6. Mean number of abstracts, presentations, and publications	6.6
7. Mean number of work experiences	3.5
8. Mean number of volunteer experiences	7.7
9. Percentage who are AOA members	12.3
10. Percentage who graduated from one of the 40 U.S. medical schools with the highest NIH funding	32.1
11. Percentage who have Ph.D. degree	2.0
12. Percentage who have another graduate degree	18.7

Note: Only U.S. MD seniors who gave consent to use their information in research are included.

Sources. NRMP Data Warehouse; Top 40 U.S. medical schools with the highest NIH funding in measure 10 is from the NIH website (http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm).

Special Considerations When Applying for Residency

There are no special considerations when applying for residency in anesthesiology.

Important Advice

Step 2 is likely to increase in importance, as Step 1 has transitioned to P/F.

Good letters of recommendation and comments from clerkships are also important in the application process. Work hard to obtain good reviews.

Be a team player. Teamwork is vital to a career in this field, so working well with others in your clerkships is key.

Don’t apply to programs you don’t realistically want to go to. If you know you’ll be miserable in a particular region, city or program, put your application efforts toward programs in which you will be happy.

Where Past Tulane Students Have Matched

Stony Brook Teach Hosps-NY	STONY BROOK	NY	2019
U Texas Southwestern Med Sch-Dallas	DALLAS	TX	2019
U Texas Med Branch-Galveston	GALVESTON	TX	2019
Cedars-Sinai Med Ctr-CA	LOS ANGELES	CA	2019
Tulane Univ SOM-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2019
University of Virginia	CHARLOTTESVILLE	VA	2019
U Texas HSC-San Antonio	SAN ANTONIO	TX	2019
B I Deaconess Med Ctr-MA	BOSTON	MA	2019
Duke Univ Med Ctr-NC	DURHAM	NC	2019
U Miami/Jackson Health System‐FL	MIAMI	FL	2020
Cedars‐Sinai Med Ctr‐CA	LOS ANGELES	CA	2020
UC San Diego Med Ctr‐CA	SAN DIEGO	CA	2020
Stanford Univ Progs‐CA	STANFORD	CA	2020
U Alabama Med Ctr‐Birmingham	BIRMINGHAM	AL	2020
Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai‐NY	NEW YORK	NY	2020
Ochsner Clinic Foundation‐LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2020
Cedars‐Sinai Med Ctr‐CA	LOS ANGELES	CA	2020
Dartmouth‐Hitchcock Med Ctr‐NH	LEBANON	NH	2020
U Southern California	LOS ANGELES	CA	2020
Penn State Hershey Med Ctr‐PA	HERSHEY	PA	2020
U Washington Affil Hosps	SEATTLE	WA	2021
Ochsner Clinic Foundation-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2021
MedStar Georgetown Univ Hosp-DC	WASHINGTON	DC	2021
Tulane Univ SOM-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2021
Wake Forest Baptist Med Ctr-NC	WINSTON-SALEM	NC	2021
UC San Francisco-CA	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	2021
U Texas Med Sch-Houston	HOUSTON	TX	2021
Harbor-UCLA Med Ctr-CA	TORRANCE	CA	2021
U North Carolina Hospitals	CHAPEL HILL	NC	2021
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL	CHICAGO	IL	2021
Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL	CHICAGO	IL	2021
MedStar Union Memorial Hosp-MD	BALTIMORE	MD	2022
B I Deaconess Med Ctr-MA	BOSTON	MA	2022
Tulane Univ SOM-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2022
Mayo Clinic School of Grad Med Educ-MN	ROCHESTER	MN	2022
Ochsner Clinic Foundation-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2022
Tulane Univ SOM-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2022
Tulane Univ SOM-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2022
Yale-New Haven Hosp-CT	NEW HAVEN	CT	2022
Loma Linda University-CA	LOMA LINDA	CA	2022
Walter Reed Medical Center	Washington	DC	2022
U Texas Med Branch-Galveston	GALVESTON	TX	2022
UC Davis Med Ctr-CA	SACRAMENTO	CA	2022
Ochsner Clinic Foundation-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2023
ISMMS Mount Sinai Hospital-NY	NEW YORK	NY	2023
U Rochester/Strong Memorial-NY	ROCHESTER	NY	2023
Duke Univ Med Ctr-NC	DURHAM	NC	2023
Tulane Univ SOM-LA	NEW ORLEANS	LA	2023
U Miami/Jackson Health System-FL	MIAMI	FL	2023
Stanford Health Care-CA	STANFORD	CA	2023
UC San Francisco-CA	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	2023