Combined Internal Medicine - Anesthesiology Residency Program
We foresee an increased demand for perioperative care physicians. Join us in one of the few combined IM-Anesthesiology programs in the country to become competent internists and anesthesiologists capable in both disciplines.
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First year
12 months of internal medicine
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Second year
12 months of anesthesiology
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Years 3 - 5
6 months per year devoted to each specialty
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Graduates will be Board-eligible in both specialties. Residents in this combined program are involved as members of both departments in including educational and clinical endeavors as well as research opportunities.
Candidates apply to the combined program and will interview with both internal medicine and anesthesiology programs. Applications are accepted via ERAS and require at least TWO letters of recommendation from each specialty.
ERAS number: 7425644003
NRMP code: 1784040C1
Sample anesthesiology schedule
Number of rotations |
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Location | Year 1 |
Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Children's Wisconsin |
0 | 3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Froedtert Hospital | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
Veterans Affairs Medical Center | 4 | 3 | 3 |
4 |
4 |
Wheaton Franciscan St. Joseph's | 0 |
0 | 1 |
1 |
1 |
Residents will have alternate between internal medicine and anesthesiology training immediately following their PGY-2 year. Residents will continue to have both an IM Continuity Clinic and anesthesiology shadowing experience throughout the 5 year period.
Vacation time is taken proportionally to time spent in each residency in a given year. Absences from training exceeding 5 of the 60 months of required training must be made up.
The core Anesthesiology conferences occur on Wednesday mornings (weekly didactics / case based learning from 6:30-7:30 am) and on Friday mornings (M&M, Grand Rounds, Case Conference, etc.).
During the Internal Medicine portion of the training in Years 3-5, residents attend one of these sessions monthly at a minimum, with the expectation that residents attend these sessions on a more frequent basis. Because the timing of the conferences listed above is early in the day, it will be feasible for residents to attend other conferences weekly.
physiology, anatomy, anesthesia equipment and monitoring.
The advanced exam for anesthesia is taken after the completion of the residency and focuses on clinical aspects of anesthetic practice and will emphasize subspecialty-based practice and advanced clinical issues. The Internal Medicine certification exam is also taken after the completion of the residency and focuses on clinical aspects of internal medicine disease processes.
Frequently asked questions
Departmental program requirements
Anesthesiology
- Two one-month rotations in obstetric anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, neuroanesthesiology, and cardiothoracic anesthesiology.
- A minimum of one month adult intensive care unit during each of the last 3 years.
- Three months of pain medicine: 1 month in acute perioperative pain, 1 month in chronic pain, and 1 month of regional analgesia/peripheral nerve blocks.
- One month in a preoperative evaluation clinic.
- One-half month in a post anesthesia care unit.
- No single subspecialty, excluding critical care medicine, exceeds six months total.
During the Anesthesiology rotations, residents attend a minimum of one Internal Medicine Continuity Clinic session per month.
Medicine
- A minimum of 4 months of critical care (MICU, CCU) rotations (max 6 months) with at least one additional month in a surgical ICU.
- A minimum of 1/3rd of Internal Medicine training occurs in ambulatory setting and minimum of 1/3rd in inpatient setting.
- A longitudinal Continuity Clinic of 130 half-day sessions over the course of training. The Continuity Clinic includes evaluation of performance data for resident’s panel of patients.
- Exposure to each of the Internal Medicine subspecialties and neurology, and an assignment in geriatric medicine.
- An emergency medicine experience of four weeks in the PGY1.
- Electives available in experience in psychiatry, allergy/immunology, dermatology, medical ophthalmology, office gynecology, otorhinolaryngology, non-operative orthopedics, palliative medicine, sleep medicine, and rehabilitation medicine.