KSU Anesthesia Board

Introduction:

Welcome to the King Saud University Residency Training Program in Anesthesiology. Our mission is to train competent clinical anesthesiologists to provide outstanding patient care and who would be leaders in clinical and academic Anesthesiology. Our Hospitals being tertiary referral centers and equipped with innovative technology, a wide variety of clinical exposure is available for the resident.  Our residents rotate mainly in King Khalid University Hospital and King AbdulAziz University Hospital, beside other governmental hospitals (National Guard, King Faisal specialist Hospital, and Security Forces Hospital). Having a faculty staff with local and divers universal backgrounds, our standards of care comply with international standards and our innovative state of the art teaching techniques are yielding outstanding outcomes. While giving the patient's safety and privacy the utmost priority, a balance between education and service is maintained. While working one-on-one with a faculty member, the professional and collegial environment would provide a friendly atmosphere for teaching and learning on a daily basis on the patient side, thus creating an intellectually stimulating environment for education, and facilitating transitions past specific required milestones, as well as progressive acquisition of adequate competency, autonomy and leadership. Our comprehensive curriculum consist of: consultant based lectures series (with 30 months rotation); Sunday morning conferences that include selected topic review,  journal club, and mortality & morbidity; a didactic curriculum module based level specific (junior versus senior resident) with an interactive in-depth problem based learning approach and  corresponding module based simulation sessions, the latter becoming one of the main tools to teach and reinforce  the learning process; daily teaching by a faculty member in the operating rooms on the patient side; subject specific courses and workshops (Difficult airway management, Ultrasound guided techniques, etc...). The curriculum also includes informative and summative assessment tools (knowledge test exam after each module, mock oral exams, annual written in-training exam, monthly evaluation)

The residency training program at KSU consists of 5 years:

CA1: The first 3 months, the residents are given an intensive orientation course,  consisting of a series of lectures that cover major introductory topics in anesthesiology, with emphasis on the objectives and assesments; Fundamentals of anesthesia and the basic principles in managing the patient peri-operatively; during the second half of the year, residents start taking part of some subspecialty rotations as well as on-call schedule.This includes the PACU and the preoperative patient assessment.

CA2: Exposure to general surgery cases, gynecologic, obstetric, urologic, orthopedics, regional anesthesia, ambulatory cases, ENT and ophthalmology)

CA3: additional exposure to various subspecialties with increased complexities   and requiring increased responsibilities (neuro-anesthesia, thoracic,vascular, cardiac, pediatric, bariatric, critical care),

CA4:  additional exposure to various subspecialties with increased complexities and requiring increased responsibilities and autonomy; pain management

CA5:  Full spectrum of surgical procedures convered; electives as per interest

Research oriented sessions are provided by the faculty members, some of whom are editors (and editor-in-chief) of the Saudi Journal of Anesthesia (the official publication of the Saudi Anesthesia Association), hence promoting the research spirit, in special among the resident body and encouraging the resident to think in a research oriented approach. Residents are encouraged to participate in the national and regional anesthesiology organizations (mainly the Saudi Anesthesia Association) and ongoing scientific activities. Financial support when applicable is granted for that purpose. A wide variety of library resources is available at the medical library, where the resident would access hard copy as well as soft copy medical references and medical journals.

Upon completion of the KSU Post Graduate Educational Program requirements (including final written and oral examinations), the graduate would be fully prepared and able to pursue any subspecialty fellowship program, or to take place in any academic position or clinical job.

Note: there will be a promotion exam written and oral for all level of residents end of each year

FIVE-YEAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM:

CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION TO THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM:

Applicants should be graduates from King Saud University, with the Degree M.B.B.S. or its equivalent from other universities with a minimum grade of “Good”.

1. Successful completion of one year of internship.
2. Three recommendations (written references) at suitable for postgraduate training.
3. Successful personal interview and formal approval of the Anesthesia Fellowship Training Committee (AFTC).
4. Compliance with the Residency Board and King Saud University Regulations.
5. The candidate must provide the letter of release from his sponsor for the whole duration of the Fellowship Program (as per rules and regulation of King Saud University Fellowship Program).

Upon successful completion of the final examination, the candidate will be awarded K.S.U. Fellowship in Anesthesia

Rapid improvement in the economic status of Saudi Arabia has produced uniquely creative social climate in which all professions and all branches of medicine can flourish and play a leadership role on a world-wide stge.  In this scholarly and technical renaissance two fundamental enterprises must be planned for all areas of medical activity.  First attention must be directed to providing for immediate staffing needs within the Kingdom, in which the indigenous professional will take increasingly heavy clinical responsibilities.  Second, to plan to teach the teachers of future generations to ensure a self-perpetuating standards of excellence within the Kingdom.

The following program for anesthesia training is desigNed with these immediate and long-term objectives in view, in order to ensure a high standard of continuing excellence in anesthesia services throughout Saudi Arabia.  It is based on a mix of European and North American training methods, and it is intended to produce a level of postgraduate expertise that will rank with the standards of the British Fellowship, or the American Boards in Anesthesia.

The department of Anaesthesia has established a comprehensive postgraduate fellowship program designed to train high quality specialists in Anesthesia, and to provide there with a background that is competitive with existing world-wide models of scholarship and performance.

The five-year fellowship program is open-ended with three aims:

1. To produce competent Anesthesia with a sound general training and contemporary skills, who will be capable of providing first class specialist service in major community hospitals throughout the Kingdom.
2. To provide the opportunity for higher training for those individuals with a vacation to concentrate on one or more of the subspecialties such as Pediatric, Cardiac, or Neuroanesthesia.
3. To identify and encourage the future leaders, researchers and teachers of the specialty, and to facilitate their further advanced training and career development at other centers, with a view to their planned return to academic positions within the Kingdom, where they will pass on their skills to future generations of trainees.

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

The five year training program will provide a wide range of training in all branches of anesthesia up to a standard where the candidate will be competent to function as a specialist Anesthetist.

During the first two years of the program, a core-curriculum of didactic lectures, basic sciences seminars and special courses will be provided to equip the resident for further ongoing clinical training. The resident will assume increasing responsibilities and independent duties as he proceeds successfully through the program.

During the second three years of the program more advanced training will be given in the subspecialties of Pediatric, Neuro and Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, as well as the management of chronic pain.  In addition, the resident will be provided with an introduction to clinical research methodology and protocol planning, and if the demonstrates an aptitude and motivation for research he may work as a co-investigator with the faculty members engaged in research projects.

Throughout the training program the candidate will be provided with practical clinical work and one-on-one tuition in the operating rooms, combined with preoperative and postoperative rounds in the in-patients wards and Intensive Care Unit. In addition, regular journal-club seminars, will keep the resident abreast with the current literature.

PLACE OF TRAINING:

The program is based at the College of Medicine and the University Hospitals (King Khalid and King AbdulAziz University Hospitals).

Didactic lectures, basic science seminars and special courses are provided at the College of Medicine and King Khalid University Hospital.  Part of the clinical training time, will be spent in affiliated hospitals.          

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