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Anesthesiology in Neurocritical Care Survey

Dear Program Chair:
The Board of Directors of the Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC) would like to understand how involved anesthesiologists are in Neurocritical Care in academic institutions in the United States.  This information will be analyzed in order to decide how it can better serve the respective clinicians, and what can be done to maintain this involvement in the future.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK TO ANSWER 10 BRIEF QUESTIONS.  THANK YOU.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=YyiInBUriMLT7OIpzfOyKQ_3d_3d

 
 

SEA Survey for Core Program Directors

The Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) is a national organization dedicated to education of physicians. SEA has evolved into a successful organization; an organization in which national organizations turn to SEA for advice. We are an educational organization for anesthesiology educators who desire to improve their skills in anesthesia education. SEA stated goals and commitment include:

  • Enhancing the skills of the anesthesiology educator.
  • Updating anesthesiology educators in new technology and modalities for education.
  • Offering techniques for enhancing the recruitment, training and evaluation of anesthesiology trainees.
  • Offering techniques for improving medical student rotations in anesthesiology departments.
  • Offering twice a year meetings directed to the needs of anesthesiology educators.
  • Publishing anesthesia educational articles, updates on anesthesiology educational-related issues

We are asking for your participation because of your position as the program director of a anesthesiology residency in the United States. Please take the time to complete the survey at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=NMHnWBaIckyhjK5CxFYaSg_3d_3d

It is a short questionnaire concerning the role of the SEA in your educational program and your views of the organization. Your time and effort will be appreciated in this endeavor.

 

 

RRC Call for Information

To implement the new individual-based case entry system, the Case Log system for anesthesiology will be unavailable on Monday, June 29.  Any additional aggregate data that needs to be entered into the current aggregate system must be entered by that day.  On June 29, we will archive all data currently entered and transition to the new individual-based entry system which will be accessible by the morning of June 30.  Anyone with questions about this process should please contact the Support Center at oplog@acgme.org  or 312. 755.7464.

The Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors is the official organization of ACGME-designated Core Program Directors.  As such, the ACGME, RRC, NRMP and others will be looking to the AACPD for input and cooperation in future directions and changes in core anesthesiology training programs.  AACPD is part of the umbrella organization SAAA.

The AACPD had its first meeting in San Antonio Oct 31, 2008, during the SAAA meeting.  During that meeting the first council members were elected.  Ted Sanford, MD was elected as President-Elect.  On Saturday, November 1, 2008, the AACPD Council met for the first time to take up issues.  The meeting was chaired by Stephen Rupp, MD (previous AAPD President and current AACPD President).  The Council was pleased that 86 of 131 programs had joined AACPD.  Joy Hawkins, MD was selected as Secretary.  Dr. Hawkins will join Dr. Rupp and Dr. Sanford on the SAAA Council.  Council worked on logistics for next year’s meeting, developing a close relationship with SEA, selecting representation to the Organization of Program Directors Associations (Dr. Sanford) and began to surface issues that face training programs.

Please join AACPD if you are a Core Program Director in Anesthesiology and have not joined yet.  Please plan to join us for the AACPD annual meeting in Boston Nov 6-8, 2009.  We are working on a program that we hope will be enlightening and helpful.

Visit http://www.saaahq.org/aacpd.htm for the list of 2008-2009 Officers.

 

 

 

 

 

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