Anesthesiology externship program helps grow profession

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A unique program that sees students at the Medical College of Georgia working as anesthesia technologists throughout their four years of medical school can influence more of them to pursue the specialty as a career, investigators report.

The MCG Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine's nearly 100-year-old Externship Program is one of only five or six in the country and allows interestedto work nights, weekends and holidays, as a critical part of the anesthesia and operating room teams.

"This program was actually started in 1938 by our first chair Dr. Perry Volpitto, and originally it was designed to get medical The externship, which students can start as early as the first year of medical school, is mutually beneficial for students and the department, says study senior author Dr. Caryl Bailey, assistant professor and director of the anesthesiology clerkship for medical students.

 

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