Clinical Base Year Available

August, 2005 - As a result of data gathered from the post-interview survey of  2004-2005 residency applicants, The Ohio State University Department of Anesthesiology and the Office of Graduate Medical Education made a formal request to the ACGME for the addition of a Clinical Base Year to our current 3-year Advanced program beginning with the 2005-2006 recruiting season. Our request was approved and our first class of CBY interns started training on July 1st, 2006.

This program meets the ABA requirement of one-year of non-anesthesia clinical training prior to starting three years of clinical anesthesia training. Within the institution, we partner with program directors from other specialities to provide an enhanced learning experience for our PGY-1 trainees in various medical and surgical disciplines.

The clinical spectrum that our academic medical center offers is wide-reaching and allows our PGY-1 residents to rotate in longstanding and successful training programs in internal medicine, neurology, critical care, emerency medicine, general surgery, otolaryngology and obstetrics.

We believe the addition of the clinical base year to our 3-year Advanced program solidfies the general medical knowledge base of our anesthesia residents and improves their understanding of how their future colleagues in other specialities think and practice.