General
Full time Fellowship position in Obstetric Anaesthesiology in a busy private practice within an academic department. You will learn the practical, scientific, and administrative aspects of running an OB anaesthesia service. Most of your time is based in clinical work, with some research required. Research will be supervised and conducted with Senior Faculty. Fellow will also present their research at a national meeting. The fellowship already meets or exceeds all the requirements for Fellowship submitted by the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) in "Recommendation for ACGME Accreditation of Obstetric Anesthesiology” in the United States.
Clinical
Extraordinary clinical experience in a busy Obstetric Unit, with normal and high-risk deliveries. On call commitment is approximately once weekly. In addition to the Fellows, the labour unit is staffed with an attending OB Anaesthesiologist and resident. Fellows attend regular interdisciplinary meetings with the Maternal Fetal Medicine Division (Perinatologists). Also, there is a short rotation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Maternal Fetal Medicine and Surgical ICU. We do weekly consults in our antenatal high risk pre-delivery clinic and see many maternal complex medical problems including maternal cardiac diseases.
Hospital
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, is a very busy, high profile, tertiary care centre with state of the art facilities. Currently, the Obstetrics service has approximately 6,800 deliveries/year with many high-risk patients. Cedars has a large Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as well as specialty surgeries in all areas. There is a large, dedicated OB Anaesthesiology Attending staff. Anaesthesiology residents rotate to our service from Cedars as well as from outside institutions.
