UCLA DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY

Policy on Supervision of Residents

All patient care is supervised by qualified faculty.   The UCLA Department of Anesthesiology chair will approve the teaching staff at Westwood and Santa Monica.  The Chair of each affiliate will select and ensure the faculty at their facility is qualified.

The faculty will provide education, training, and experience in an atmosphere of mutual respect between instructor and resident so that residents will be stimulated and prepared to apply acquired knowledge and skills independently.   The faculty will provide an environment that promotes the acquisition of the knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, and attitudes essential to the practice of anesthesiology.

The faculty will also provide guidance and counseling in interpersonal skill, effective communication, and professionalism.  The faculty will work toward ensuring that the residents assume responsibility and act responsibly and with integrity; demonstrate a commitment to excellence and ethical principles of clinical care, including confidentiality of patient information, informed consent, and business practices; demonstrate respect and regard for the needs of patients and society that supercedes self-interest; and work effectively as a member of a health-care team or other professional group. 

At UCLA Westwood and Santa Monica residents are provided with rapid, reliable systems for communicating with supervising faculty by alpha-numeric pager, overhead page and/or a direct mobile phone.

The faculty

Elective cases are scheduled at a supervision ratio of no more than 2 anesthetizing locations per faculty.

Faculty schedules are structured to provide residents with continuous supervision and consultation.  

• There are 8 faculty in the main operating room on-call Monday-Friday who can supervise a total of up to 16 anesthetizing locations.
• There are 3 faculty on-call on Saturday, Sunday and holidays who can supervise up to 6 anesthetizing locations.
• There are 2 faculty on liver transplantation call every day who can supervise up to 4 anesthetizing locations.
• There are 2 faculty on cardiac call every day who can supervise up to 4 anesthetizing locations.
• There is 1 faculty on pediatric call every day who can supervise up to 2 anesthetizing locations.
• There is 1 faculty assigned Monday-Friday 3PM-11Pm who can supervise up to 2 anesthetizing locations.
• There is 1 faculty assigned Monday-Friday 3PM-9PM who can supervise up to 2 anesthetizing locations.
• There is 1 faculty assigned Monday-Friday 11AM-8PM who can supervise up to 2 anesthetizing locations.

Supervision shall not vary substantially with the time of day or day of the week. In the clinical setting, faculty members should not direct anesthesia at more than two anesthetizing locations simultaneously.

The affiliate programs will provide teaching in a ration of no more than 2 anesthetizing sites

ACGME/Policy-Supervision 063004.DOC

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