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Department of Anesthesia

Obstetrics Anesthesia Fellowship

The fellowship program ensures fellows will receive a broad clinical and educational experience in the Labour & Delivery (L&D) Suite, Women’s ICU, and Maternal and Fetal Medicine Clinics and Wards.

 

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The one-year fellowship in Obstetrics Anesthesia is committed to providing a healthy, safe, and innovative learning environment where our fellows can acquire outstanding clinical, academic, and leadership skills to not only provide world class anesthesia care to low and high-risk obstetrical patients but to become leaders and champions of the obstetrical anesthesia subspecialty.

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Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship
Goals & Objectives

Clinical Objectives

  • Demonstrate proficiency, beyond the level of a non-obstetrical anesthesiologist, in providing anesthesia care to pregnant women, particularly those with complicated medical and obstetrical conditions, for all types of obstetrical, surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic interventions
  • Perform resuscitation, pain management, and critical care specific to pregnant women.
  • Act as a consultant to other anesthesiologists, obstetricians, midwives, pediatricians, nurses and critical care medicine physicians;
  • Demonstrate clear and effective communication during obstetrical emergency and non-emergency situations;
  • Work cooperatively with medical, nursing and support staff in the Obstetrical unit, the Hospital and the Community;
  • Demonstrate and teach neuraxial anesthesia with the assistance of ultrasound of the lumbar spine.
  • Develop the administrative skills necessary to manage and prioritize day-to-day patient care in an obstetrical environment.

Teaching Objectives

  • Demonstrate effective teaching skills. This includes:
    • multi-disciplinary bedside clinical teaching to residents and medical students;
    • formal simulation teaching sessions, as a learner and as a debriefer, in participating obstetrical anesthesia-related scenarios and debriefing sessions;
  • Presentation or moderation of obstetrical anesthesia journal club, case conference or “obstetrical anesthesia update” sessions;
  • Present at the Department of Anesthesiology Grand Rounds on “What’s New in Obstetrical Anesthesia” in the end of the fellowship year.
  • Promote and help promoting continuous cutting-edge education pertinent to the care of low and high-risk obstetrical anesthesia patients.

Research & Quality Improvement

  • If research is the chosen activity, attendance to the department’s monthly research meeting (2nd Tuesday or every month at 4:00 pm);
  • Design and completion of at least one clinical research or quality improvement project with appropriate supervision and mentorship;
  • Present the project’s results or preliminary results at the SOAP (Society of Obstetrical Anesthesia and Perinatology) meeting conference in May.
  • Prepare a manuscript for peer-reviewed publication.

Call Scheule

Weekly assignment schedule split (unevenly) into:

  1. Subspeciality days [2 – 3 days] in specialty anesthesia. Fellows are assigned one- to- one with specialty anesthesia staff.
  2. Service days [2 days] in the operating room performing adult anesthesia lists. Fellows are assigned to an OR list and operate independently while being covered by anesthesia staff operating in another adjacent OR
  3. Non-clinical days (NCDs) or academic days [1 day]: This granted according to the fellow’s academic engagement (research, teaching, journal clubs etc..).

II. On call duty:  

  • 2 weekdays and 1 weekend per month. 
  • Fellows are assigned on-call at the Juravinski hospital from 17:00 pm- 8:00 am. 
  • Fellows are assigned with anesthesia staff working in the OR. 
  • The next day is post-call