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Program Overview

From the Directors

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, a major tertiary care referral center in Philadelphia, provides a widely diversified exposure for the anesthesia resident. As a designated Regional Resource Level 1 Trauma Center, we see patients with a wide variety of major injuries. Jefferson is the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley and we receive patients with severe neurological injuries almost daily who require fiberoptic-guided intubation on a routine basis.

We perform the largest volume of total joint procedures in the Delaware Valley. Among our general surgeons are experts in colorectal surgery, biliary tract surgery and hepatic resection. Other areas of special surgical expertise include neurosurgery, ear, nose and throat surgery, plastic surgery and gynecologic oncology.

Close to 700 cardiovascular thoracic surgical procedures are performed here each year. Approximately 20% of surgical procedures are conducted with regional/ nerve block anesthesia. An active surgical team performs both kidney and liver transplants with current planning to establish a cardiac transplantation program.

For our anesthesiology residents, this surgical diversity provides numerous opportunities to learn regional and general anesthetic techniques, to become proficient in placing and interpreting invasive monitoring devices and to anticipate and treat the wide variety of physiological and pathological consequences of medical and surgical disease and surgical trespass.

The latest addition to our educational program is a full scale mannikin simulator. The simulator resides in a center that will be the home for programs based on use of simulation technology. For example, in addition to the anesthesia simulator, an ultrasound simulator is located in the center. For a peek at the center point your browser to http://www.medsim.com/ and access Simcenters.

Zvi Grunwald, MD Program Director
Stephen McNulty, DO  Associate Program Director