Courses

Courses for Anesthesia House Staff

We specialize in turnkey and custom designed simulator-based education and evaluation programs for a multidisciplinary audience of healthcare provides from all levels of education. Specialties educated in our center include: anesthesiology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, critical care, dentistry, multiple surgical subspecialties and gastroenterology. We have also conducted courses for middle school, high school and college students, as well as the lay population on various occasions.

The courses highlighted below are available to medical professionals from outside institutions and can be customized to meet your needs. Please contact us directly to discuss details, cost and availability of our facility.

Any of the courses described below are available to residents from outside programs.

CA-1 Introduction to clinical anesthesia. This is an intensive four-session anesthesia simulator course designed to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice, and transition new residents into the practice of clinical anesthesia. Residents rotate through the simulator in groups of two, and each session lasts approximately two hours. Topics covered during this four-session course include: basic and advanced airway management (including management of the difficult airway); induction, maintenance, and emergence from anesthesia; dysrhythmias and their management; hypotension and hypoxia; and the anatomy of the anesthesia machine and associated safety features. Written evaluations designed to assess residents in each of the six core competencies are provided for each resident and each session.

CA-2 & CA-3 Simulation based oral-board prep. This course, designed for senior resident education, is based on a combination mock oral-board and OR simulation format. Senior residents (CA-2 and CA-3) are paired up for this exercise and instructed to work as a team, with one resident taking on the role of attending and the other working as the resident. The team is then presented with a stem, one of four cases developed specifically to cover an aspect of anesthetic management the residents at this level should be familiar with. After having 10 minutes to review the stem they are asked questions in an oral board format for 20 minutes before entering the simulated OR to complete the case. The oral board questions are designed to both evaluate the resident’s fund of knowledge and to lead them down a particular path of thinking related to the simulated case to follow. The case is then either as expected and the residents managed accordingly, or they are presented with an unexpected complication unrelated to the oral questioning. Each session lasts approximately two hours. Written evaluations designed to assess residents in each of the six core competencies are provided for each resident and each session

Simulation-based competency assessment for residents. Full-scale mannequin-based simulation may be used to evaluate an individual resident’s performance in a number of competencies, including the six core competences (clinical judgment, technical skills, interpersonal skills, professionalism, and communication, documentation and record keeping) in a standardized and unbiased manner. We conduct simulation-based competency assessments for residents at the request of program directors from other residency programs.

For more information, contact Adam Levine, MD

Emergency Medicine Team Training

We have developed a simulator-based course designed to improve the way physicians and nurses in the Department of Emergency Medicine work together as a team. Both simulated operating rooms are used to create scenarios involving multiple patients, as would be experienced in a real emergency room. This one or two-day course presents Emergency Medicine residents, attending physicians, and nurses with several simulated patients having a variety of medical problems and complaints. Included in the course are didactic sessions and debriefing after each scenario. This seminar includes airway management, critical events, and team training focusing on developing your group into a cohesive team of practitioners able to manage basic, rare, and critical events in the Emergency Room setting. Communication skills, leadership, and delegation of responsibilities are emphasized during the management of difficult airways, equipment failures, and cardiovascular, pulmonary and metabolic derangements.

For more information, contact Adam Levine, MD

Basic Anesthesia Refresher Course for the Attending Anesthesiologist

This simulator-based refresher/retraining course is designed for attending physicians who have been out of clinical practice for an extended period of time and plan to return to active practice or those whose practice has been of limited scope and wish to return to more comprehensive general hospital-based practice. The course combines six weeks of intensive simulation-based training and direct OR observership designed to bring you up to speed on the latest anesthetic agents and technologies currently in use. This course is intended for those physicians who will participate in a supervised clinical retraining program prior to resuming clinical practice.

For more information, contact Adam Levine, MD

Critical Care Group / Rapid Response Team Training

This simulation-based seminar in airway management, critical events, and team training focuses on developing your group into a cohesive team of critical care physicians and nurses able to manage basic, rare, and critical events in the ICU setting. Communication skills, leadership, and delegation of responsibilities are emphasized during the management of difficult airways, equipment failures, and cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic derangements.

For more information, contact Adam Levine, MD

Difficult Airway Management with ACLS

This one-day course focuses on difficult airway management as part of Advanced Cardiac Life Support and is appropriate for any practitioner who may be called upon to manage an airway during a code. Proper airway management is stressed and participants have ample opportunity to practice with multiple airway devices. This course can be customized to meet the individual needs of your group.

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Sedation for Dental Procedures

We have conducted a simulator workshop covering basic and advanced monitoring and sedation techniques as part of the course on sedation for dental procedures at our Mount Sinai Hospital location in New York City. This course is now available as a standalone, custom-designed one or two day session for your dental group.

For more information, contact Adam Levine, MD

Endoscopic Sedation Symposium

We have conducted a simulator workshop covering basic and advanced monitoring and sedation techniques for endoscopy at our Mount Sinai Hospital location New York City. This course is now available as a standalone, custom-designed one- or two-day session for your endoscopy gastroenterology group.

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New York Anesthesiology Review

We conduct a simulator workshop covering the management of the difficult airway and other critical events as part of The New York Anesthesiology Review in Orlando, FL, using our portable equipment.

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Clinical Update in Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Perioperative Medicine

We conduct a simulator workshop covering the management of the difficult airway and other critical events as part of The Clinical Update in Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Perioperative Medicine, using portable equipment.

For more information, contact Adam Levine, MD