The one-year fellowship in Obstetrical 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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Hospital Site
McMaster University Medical Centre
Goals
Weekly assignment schedule split (unevenly) into:
- Subspeciality days [2 – 3 days] in specialty anesthesia. Fellows are assigned one- to- one with specialty anesthesia staff.
- 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
- 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