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Our residents come from diverse backgrounds. Most come to us directly from medical school; however, some have pursued graduate study earning additional degrees (e.g., Ph.D., MBA, MPH, JD); others have conducted several years of research while others have had successful non-medical careers; and some are board certified in another medical specialty. Their non-academic interests also are very diverse ranging from being a solo violinist with a philharmonic orchestra to instructing ballroom dancers, karate and rock-climbing to being competitive athletes. However, they come to our program with a common goal: the desire to learn to provide outstanding care to their patients in an educational environment that fosters intellectual curiosity.
Our goal is to develop in our residents the necessary knowledge, judgement and clinical skills to qualify them as consultant anesthesiologists. Our residents achieve clinical and academic competence over three years of training by managing patients with increasingly complicated medical conditions for more and more complex surgical procedures, and by being exposed to incrementally more advanced educational materials. Our graduates are confident managing critically ill patients, from neonates to the extremely aged, undergoing all types of surgical procedures, during the pre- intra- and postoperative periods. Graduating residents make the transition easily from residency into either community or academic practice, and the vast majority achieve Board Certification on their first attempt. As a resident in our program, clinical training takes place within our clinical divisions, encompassing all major subspecialties in our field, and covering a vast and diverse caseload. Residents rotating through each major clinical division stay exclusively within that area while on rotation and are taught by an attending staff dedicated to that subspecialty. This ensures an intense and focused training experience with experts who have the most up-to-date knowledge and advanced skills pertinent to the subspecialty. Each division provides its rotating residents with a set of rotation objectives tailored to their CA year, subspecialty specific reading materials, instructions on pertinent techniques, and a series of questions for self appraisal of the materials. By your senior year, you will have completed several rotations in each subspecialty area and are given the opportunity to choose electives that meet your personal goals. As a Senior Resident, you will be given the opportunity to function in a leadership role as a "Team Captain " heading the overnight and weekend call team. The Team Captain arranges for and plans anesthetic management for emergency surgeries, supervises junior residents through these procedures, directs management of all Post-Anesthesia Care Unit patients, and oversees airway management in emergency nonsurgical situations for patients on the wards and in the Emergency Room. An in-house on call attending is always available to assist you with these endeavors. Your didactic training comes from daily teaching by faculty in the O.R. and ICU, by attending and participating in several departmental and subdivisional rounds & conferences, and from diligent study. Faculty and residents attend our departmental weekly Case Conference, Morbidity/Mortality and Quality Assurance Conference. Other regularly scheduled resident lectures include Journal Club, a Core Curriculum Lecture Series, Chief’s Rounds, a Basic Principles Course, Problem-Based Learning Sessions and subspecialty seminars for residents on rotation. Research seminars and special educational events take place throughout the year in the department, as well as many outstanding lectures throughout the Medical Center, which you are encouraged to attend. We provide you with basic textbooks when you enter the program, as well as ongoing subscriptions to major journals and membership in important professional organizations. The departmental library stays up to date with current books, journals and computerized materials and remains open continuously for resident use. As a CA-1 resident the department will sponsor you to attend a board review course as a preview of the written examination. CA-2 and CA-3 residents receive time and are reimbursed to attend a professional meeting outside the institution. For information about applying to the Clinical Base year click here. While we provide the necessary tools and opportunities to achieve the training goals we have set for you, we expect each resident to assume responsibility for his or her own education. The personal commitment to improvement of skills, study, and acquisition of knowledge is the obligation of the individual trainee. We promote the values of independent thinking, continuous self-appraisal and high personal expectations throughout the training process; the reward for these efforts is seeing the satisfaction and success our graduates enjoy in their postgraduate professional lives. Let me introduce myself. I was born in I completed an Anesthesiology residency at the In my leisure time, I enjoy gourmet cooking, traveling and skiing especially with my two daughters. My oldest daughter is just beginning medical school so I will be experiencing first hand the trials and tribulations of having a child in the medical profession. My younger daughter has graduated from law school and is in an MBA program. (She was told she could practice any type of law as long she wasn’t an “ambulance chaser”). In addition to my hobbies, I have volunteered for medical missions as part of the Children of China Pediatric Foundation where I provided anesthesia services for patients having orthopedic, urological and plastic surgical reconstructive procedures. This foundation, as do many of the other foundations that our attending staff are associated with, allows our anesthesia residents to participate as volunteers. The philosophy that I try to instill in my children is that your education is akin to money in the bank. The better you educate yourself, the more you will have to fall back on. I try to get our residents to believe in this philosophy as well. The harder you work both in and out of the OR, the more you will learn and the easier everything will become. You will see or hear about everything you need to know about anesthesia as a resident in our program if you keep your eyes and mind open. You will graduate from the program confident that you will be able to handle anything that comes your way.
I was originally born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moved to New York City in early childhood. Since then, New York City has remained a major part of my life. I completed my undergraduate education at New York University, and I received my Doctor of Medicine degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Following my internship in the Department of Internal Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC), I completed my anesthesiology residency training in the Department of Anesthesiology at CPMC. After serving as chief resident during my final year of anesthesiology training, I completed a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) basic research training (T-32) fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University. At the conclusion of this fellowship, I joined the faculty of the Department of Anesthesiology at CPMC. Since joining the anesthesia attending staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital in 1996, I have served as a member of vascular, general surgery, and liver transplantation anesthesia teams. In 2000, I joined the division of neuroanesthesia, and I am currently regularly involved in the administration of anesthesia for neurosurgical procedures, interventional neuroradiological procedures, as well as electroconvulsive therapy. I currently am a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology (ASA), and I am an active member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of University Anesthesiologists, the International Anesthesia Research Society, and the Society of Neuroanesthesia and Critical Care. Over the last decade, I have been actively involved in resident education in anesthesia. Within our department, I have served as a frequent lecturer, a problem-based learning discussion moderator, a mock oral board examiner, and an instructor in the airway management course. In 1996, I was named Teacher of the Year by the graduating CA-3 resident class. On a national level, I have served on the experimental neurosciences and drug disposition scientific paper subcommittees of the ASA. I also have served as an ad hoc reviewer to several peer reviewed journals including Anesthesiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and Brain Research. In 2005, I was appointed Associate Director of the Anesthesiology Residency Program at CPMC, and, have been working closely with Drs. Wood and Pang as well as the faculty and the resident education administration to ensure that Columbia continues to provide the highest level of education and clinical training in anesthesiology. The primary goal remains to develop excellent residents who are well trained and prepared for any type of career in anesthesiology, whether in a private or academic practice setting. Rounds & Conferences links Problem-Based Learning Discussions - Neuroanesthesia The CA-3 residents discussed: - Hemodynamic monitoring Core Curriculum Lectures The CA-2 residents attended core curriculum lectures or seminars on Tuesday afternoons from 4-5 p.m. during the 2005-06 academic year. These lectures were grouped according to the following subspecialty areas: Subspecialty - Number of lectures Pediatrics - 4 Neuroanesthesia - 4 Critical Care - 3 Cardiothoracic - 3 Ob-Gyn - 5 Regional - 3 Pain - 2 Acid-Base Interpretation - 1 The CA-3 residents attended core curriculum lectures/seminars on Thursday afternoons from 4-5 p.m. during the academic year. Their lectures were grouped as follows: Subspecialty/Number of Lectures Monitoring - 3 Obstetrical/Regional - 4 Clinical Scenarios - 2 Anesthesia Practice Management - 3 Pediatrics - 4 Mock Orals, Writtens & Review - 10 The ABA exam review course runs each academic year from September to June. Residents complete weekly assignments on a variety of keywords from the ABA exam with corresponding multiple choice questions. All assignments are posted and archived on the department intranet site. This bulletin board allows all residents to review and discuss each topic. Residents are encouraged to discuss the weekly questions with their OR attendings. Overall the goal of the course is to promote self-directed learning and to provide a site where residents can gain insight on topics for further review.
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Leila Mei Pang, M.D.
Robert A. Whittington, M.D.