Well over 30,000 anesthetics are performed at UCLA annually in all surgical subspecialties, including anesthetics outside the operating room.

The Center for Health Sciences includes Mattel Children’s Hospital providing primary and tertiary health care to neonates, infants and children in all sub-specialties.This includes children with cardiac and neurologic disease, including high-risk neonates. yes"  Additionally, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles offers a two-month pediatric anesthesiology rotation for residents.

UCLA is one of the most prominent adult and pediatric organ transplantation centers in the world and is a Level-1 trauma center.

The hospital houses a high-risk obstetrical service with an adjacent Neonatal ICU.  Residents also experience obstetrical anesthesiology in a private practice setting at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

Both adult and pediatric cardiac surgery are performed at UCLA with the use of Transesophageal Echocardiographic monitoring by the anesthesiology team for nearly every case.  Additionally, residents will gain strong experiences in anesthesiology for adult vascular and thoracic and pediatric thoracic surgery procedures, including the use of modern techniques for single lung ventilation.

Our anesthesiology department has an active neuroanesthesia service which provides anesthesia for intra-cerebral masses, aneurysm and other intra-cranial pathology.  Advanced techniques include the use of an “asleep-awake-asleep anesthetic”.

The UCLA medical campus’ Surgery Center houses the ambulatory care operating rooms for a high volume, rapid turnover experience.  Education in techniques of prompt recovery from anesthesia and outpatient considerations are emphasized.    Additionally, a number of regional techniques for anesthesia experience are performed during this rotation.  Residents gain additional regional anesthesia experience during dedicated regional months at the West Los Angeles VA Hospital.

The UCLA Department of Anesthesiology offers a comprehensive experience in pain medicine.    We offer both an academic and private practice experience as part of residency training.   While on the UCLA campus, residents participate in peri-operative acute pain medicine and chronic pain clinic plus procedures for relief of chronic pain.  Senior residents may elect to rotate to one of two private practice pain treatment clinics for additional care of patients with chronic pain.

raining for anesthesia for ophthalmic surgery is provided at the Jules Stein Eye Institute with four operating rooms for adult and pediatric patients.

There are three intensive care rotations for UCLA anesthesiology residents, including the Pediatric ICU and Medical ICU or the Surgical ICU at the Long Beach VA Medical Center.Residents spend a rotation in each of the two ICU experiences offered.

Clinical training is also performed on the Human Patient Simulator.  The anesthesia simulator is located adjacent to the operating rooms.  Residents rotate through the simulator four times during their first month of training and then through their residency.

The Malignant Hyperthermia Program is one of the only 2 west coast centers performing biopsies for the diagnosis of malignant hyperthermia.  Our participating faculty are expert advisors to the national malignant hyperthemia hotline.

The Residency Training Program in Anesthesiology at UCLA consists of a diverse and challenging clinical experience. The links below provides examples of the resident clinical experience:

Goals and Objectives by Rotation
Sample CA-1 Schedule
Sample CA-2 Schedule
Sample CA-3 Schedule

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