>>Anesthesiology residents excel at research
Tampa, FL (May 1, 2006) – Anesthesiology residents have scored national success in developing, presenting and publishing research.
"Anesthesiology can be an ideal nexus for collaboration between basic and clinical sciences," said Enrico Camporesi, MD, chair of the department and director of the residency program. "We've now had remarkable response from our residents in accepting that challenge."
Below is a summary of resident success. It comes at a time when the department has undergone restructuring and its residency program remains on probation. "What these residents have shown is that the academic opportunities at USF are unlimited. I want to use these opportunities as we build a new model for the residency itself," Dr. Camporesi said.
"Not only have they presented research, they've won the prizes!"
In addition to research success, the anesthesiology residents have pushed their pass rates from 50% a few years ago to 90% on their specialty board examinations. "We want to create a model academic program within a clinical residency," Dr. Camporesi said.
- Erin Chamberlin, MD, a PGY-2 resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, will present an abstract "Assessment of Adequacy of Respiration in Outpatients" at the national meeting of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA), May 4-7 in Washington, DC. SAMBA is the most prestigious national and international forum for presentations related to the special problems of ambulatory patients, the most rapidly increasing segment of surgical practice. The scientific project was supervised by Anesthesiology faculty at Moffitt Cancer Center, where Dr. Chamberlin conducted a rotation in recent months. This is the second consecutive year that a USF anesthesiology resident has received the prestigious recognition; Alex Paloma, MD, (then a PGY-3) presented at SAMBA in 2005.
- Two residents of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine were recognized for outstanding presentations at the 32nd Gulf-Atlantic Anesthesiology Resident Research Conference (GAARRC) April 7-9 in Tampa. The conference, organized by USF Anesthesiology, attracted residents from more than 30 teaching programs in the Southeastern and Atlantic states. USF's Kathryn Lewis, MD, received a first-place award in the literature review category for her presentation titled "An overview of current unlabeled and investigational uses of Dexedetomidine in general anesthesia." Aleeta Somers-Dehaney, MD, received an award for her clinical investigation abstract entitled "Oxygen therapy: the doubled edge sword." The two residents are part of the rejuvenated clinical teaching program in anesthesiology at the USF College of Medicine, which rotates residents among multiple pre-eminent clinical sites and major hospitals in the Bay area.
- USF Health -
USF Health is the University of South Florida's enterprise of researchers, teachers and clinicians dedicated to improving the full continuum of health. Its core is the colleges of Public Health, Nursing and Medicine, including a School of Physical Therapy, as well as the healthcare delivered by its 450 physicians and more than 100 nurse practitioners. In partnership with its affiliated hospitals, USF Health's research funding last year was $134 million -- more than half of which came from federal sources. Last year, USF health clinicians cared for more than 31,000 patients and oversaw 396,000 outpatient visits.
