Anesthesia Residency Training Guide

• Focus on medical management: fluids, sepsis, pressors, EKGs
• Skill work: ultrasound IV, line placement
• Resources: UWorld Step 3, Pocket Medicine, UpToDate
• Build habits: effective sign-outs, daily learning goals, EMR efficiency
• Pro tip: Keep a shared intern survival guide with your class (tips, order sets, call hacks)
• Recommended text reference: "Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-existing Disease" look up comorbidities you're treating, casually read the anesthetic implications

• Master the basics: ASA monitors, machine check, induction & emergence workflows
• Resources: Stanford CA-1 PDF, Stanford Emergency Manual
• Pro tip: Be kind to everyone (yourself included)
• Pick a text that works for you: Morgan & Mikhail, Baby Miller --(check with your peers/program!)
  • After your first ITE, use Faust or OpenAnesthesia to target keywords
• Surgery ref: Jaffe
• Practice case presentations, review and predict potential intra-op crises
• On your first month:
  • Consider tackling 1-2 chapters / day of the Stanford Anesthesia Guide
  • Too exhausted to read a textbook? Tackle 5 questions/day on Morgan & Mikhail chapters

• Build confidence: CV, neuro, peds, OB, regional
• Resources: Hall Q&A, M&M chapters on subspecialty topics, OpenAnesthesia summaries
• Focus: invasive lines, complex airways, TEE basics, anesthetic planning
• Pro tip: Keep a running list of "what worked well" vs. "what I'd do differently" after cases
• Supplement with: review articles, ASA standards, society guidelines

• Hone leadership in the OR and prepare for independent practice
• Resources: Board review books (Hall, Faust), oral board stem practice
• Focus: teaching juniors, periop management (outside OR), hone clinical judgement
• Pro tip (late CA-3): Start a shared doc with oral board stems and review weekly with peers
• Mock oral resources: Anesthesia Oral Board Review found here!

• Negotiate your first job: understand contracts, billing, and practice models
• Resources: ASA early-career resources, finance podcasts (White Coat Investor), transition guides
• Focus: subspecialty mastery, longitudinal cases, billing documentation
• Pro tip: Build a library of consent templates, Epic SmartPhrases, and patient teaching materials