Course Director:  Peter F. R. Walker, MD

The four-week elective in Anesthesiology provides the student with clinical experience under the supervision of an attending anesthesiologist, principally in the Operating Room, the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (Recovery Room) and the Obstetrical Suite.  For the student, emphasis is placed on pre-operative evaluation and preparation of patients of anesthesia and surgery, including choice of anesthetic agents and techniques; airway management, with special attention to recognition and treatment of respiratory obstruction, including mask ventilation, laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation; physiologic alterations relating to surgery, anesthesia and the patient's baseline medical condition; pharmacology of the drugs used by anesthesiologists and common techniques in regional anesthesia, such as spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, epidural anesthesia and brachialplexus block.

Students will report daily to the Elective Preceptor who will make appropriate operating room assignments, as well as guide and advise the students throughout the elective.

In addition to clinical activities, the student is required to attend and participate in weekly departmental conferences, including Journal Club, Morbidity and Mortality as well as the Mortality Converence and didactic lectures each morning at 7 AM.

Department Contact

Josephine Raneri
Department of Anesthesiology
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
270-05 76 Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
(718) 470-7390