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Thank you for your interest in the anesthesia residency training program at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Combining the Dartmouth Medical School, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is a Level 1 trauma facility and New Hampshire’s only academic medical center. As a tertiary care provider to a population base of 1.5 million people, and as a research and training center, DHMC is a vital resource to regional hospitals, physicians and other providers. Combined yearly inpatient and outpatient visits at the DHMC Lebanon campus and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center total more than 550,000. The DHMC facilities include: nineteen general and subspecialty operating rooms, a 30-bed Same-Day Surgery Program, a spacious Obstetrics unit with 19 labor and delivery suites and two dedicated Obstetric surgical suites, a 16-bed adult critical care unit, a 16-bed combined CCU/SCTICU, a 6-bed Pediatric ICU and a 25-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is located in a uniquely attractive setting. The Upper Connecticut River Valley, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School provide both a superb living environment and an outstanding academic community. Our rural location offers a relative haven from issues of traffic and personal or family safety. Although rural, we are not isolated. Boston and the New England coastline are just two hours away and Montreal is three hours to the north. |
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The DHMC Department of Anesthesiology has offered a fully accredited training program for over 50 years. Our residents have come from all regions of the United States and our graduates are equally well-distributed. Residents may enter the anesthesia training program at either the PGY-1 (Clinical Base Year) or PGY-2 level. Our integrated, transitional-style internship has become an increasingly attractive option among residency candidates and provides us with a primary role in the design of a high quality first year experience for our residents. In addition, we offer two fellowship positions each in critical care medicine and pain management.
Our thirty-eight staff anesthesiologists come from diverse backgrounds and represent all anesthesia subspecialties. Seven of our faculty hold certificates of special qualifications in critical care medicine and four hold additional qualifications in pain management. We have aggressively pursued the ideal of Anesthesiology as the practice of Perioperative Medicine and our department has a dominant presence in the areas of critical care medicine and pain management. In fact, critical care medicine is a section of the DHMC Department of Anesthesiology.
The cornerstone of the Department of Anesthesiology's academic mission continues to be the training of high quality consultants in anesthesiology. The Department is directly responsible for the anesthetic management of over 15,000 operative cases each year. We provide a stimulating didactic conference series which runs throughout the year and which exposes our residents to a balanced mix of lecture and interactive educational forums. The biweekly CA-3 conference series is a mock oral exam format presented by one of our five faculty who are ABA oral board examiners. We have committed substantial resources to enhance resident education, including the resident library and computer facilities, annual resident education allowances, personal laptop computers, the provision of computer software and Internet access, and secretarial support for literature searches and slide production.
The Department has an ongoing commitment to both clinical and laboratory research.
Active participation by resident staff in research projects is encouraged. With over $2,700,000 in research funding, the Department is able to provide opportunities for investigation in a wide variety of clinical areas, including master level preparation in outcomes research through the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College.
To date, all of our trainees have found employment in desirable situations and locations. They have also enjoyed remarkable success in achieving certification from the American Board of Anesthesiology. We believe that the Department, by emphasizing perioperative critical care and pain management in addition to operating room anesthesiology, has contributed greatly to their success in both the job market and board certification. Our program continues to be well positioned to educate tomorrow's leaders in anesthesiology.
Again, thank you for your interest. We look forward to hearing from you.
