Ronald L. Harter, MD
Jay J. Jacoby Professor and Chair
Department of Anesthesiology
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Anesthesiology: Improving people’s lives through innovation in research, education and patient care.
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We in the Department of Anesthesiology have modified The Ohio State University Medical Center mission statement as presented above. It is simple, clear and compelling, and we have made great strides forward to achieve this mission.
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Education is the heart of Ohio State’s Medical Center. Our clinicians take extraordinary pride in our training program, and for good reason. Since 2004, 53 of our 55 resident graduates have passed their written board examination on first attempt, which constitutes a 96% pass rate, compared to less than 90% pass rate nationally for the same interval. Our program enjoys a full four-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
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The residency program will present its third annual CA-2 (PGY-3) retreat on practice management in the spring. In 2008, we trained our first Fellow in Regional Anesthesiology, adding Ohio State to a short list of programs nationally offering such a training opportunity. In addition, we now have an ACGME-accredited fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, and are training a Fellow in pain medicine in our ACGME-accredited pain medicine fellowship. Fellowships represent the pinnacle of post-graduate physician training, and we are delighted to offer these training opportunities at Ohio State.
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I am pleased to report that in the arena of patient care, the Department of Anesthesiology has improved our patients’ lives through innovation and a sincere commitment to excellence. OSUMC provides medical and surgical care that traverses the entire spectrum of medical care. The breadth of services provided requires the highest level of clinical skill among our faculty. We provide preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative expertise every minute of every day at OSUMC. The growth in clinical volume throughout OSUMC has created opportunities to add additional skilled practitioners to our department. Over the coming months, we will be adding anesthesiologists with expertise in pain management, neuroanesthesia and various other anesthetic skills, allowing us to continue providing the highest quality care to our patients.
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This has been an important year for the department. We have experienced significant growth in our volume of cases in the operating rooms (OR), in the volume of procedures requiring anesthetic management outside the OR suite, in the volume of patients requiring obstetrical anesthetic care; we have done this within our budget. Despite the rigorous demands of providing this growth in service throughout OSUMC, our physicians, house officers, nurse anesthetists, administrative support staff, researchers and students exhibit a growing sense of teamwork and shared purpose as we carry on the extraordinary work that we do every day.
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