Nontraditional Anesthesia Fellowships: Finding Your Niche and Offering Value

Residents' Review| June 2024 Nontraditional Anesthesia Fellowships: Finding Your Niche and Offering Value Arun Muthukumar, MD; Arun Muthukumar, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rebekka Reinhardt, MD; Rebekka Reinhardt, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ravish Kapoor, MD, FASA; Ravish Kapoor, MD, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Tong J. (TJ) Gan, MD, MBA, MHS, FASA, FRCA Tong J. (TJ) Gan, MD, MBA, MHS, FASA, FRCA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor June 2024, Vol. 88, 31–32. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001023696.63997.b4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Nontraditional Anesthesia Fellowships: Finding Your Niche and Offering Value. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:31–32 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001023696.63997.b4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: airway device, airway maintenance, cancer, cancer care facilities, surgical procedures, operative, airway structure, perioperative medicine According to enrollment data collected by the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and its prior survey of anesthesiology residents' plans, almost 60% of anesthesia residency graduates in recent years pursued a fellowship in a subspecialty (J Clin Anesth 2023;89:111155). Fellowship programs approved by the ABA include critical care, pain, cardiothoracic, and pediatric anesthesiology. Additionally, there are other anesthesiology subspecialities that can be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), though they do not offer board-certification. Those subspecialties include addiction medicine, clinical informatics, hospice and palliative medicine, obstetric anesthesiology, pediatric cardiac anesthesiology, and regional anesthesiology and acute pain. Yet, there are even other options in fellowship training that allow for subspecialization that have yet to become ACGME accredited, but which are gaining prominence within the anesthesiology community. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report for cancer... You do not currently have access to this content.