Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Hospitals Providing Clinical Rotations for Residents

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

With more than 700 beds, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) is a major tertiary referral center for the mid-Atlantic region. More than 30,000 operations, ranging from routine to cardiothoracic and organ transplantation surgery, are performed each year in its operating rooms. Patients recover after major procedures in the 54-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit, cared for by members of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care.

Clinical rotations and areas of emphasis include:

• Ambulatory surgery
• Cardiac surgery
• Thoracic surgery
• Obstetrics
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Gynecologic surgery
• Trauma service
• Vascular surgery
• Otorhinolaryngologic surgery
• Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
• Invasive radiology and NMR imaging
• General, urologic and plastic surgery
• Neurosurgery and neurosurgical intensive care
• Pain service (Acute and Chronic)
• Surgical intensive care and recovery room
• Transplantation surgery: liver, heart, pancreas, kidney, lung

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the first pediatric hospital in the United States, is a modern, 430-bed tertiary center located adjacent to HUP. CHOP serves as the primary pediatric training facility for the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Members of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and the Department of Medicine's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine manage 19,000 anesthetics annually in 14 operating rooms, a variety of ancillary locations, and direct the 66-bed multidisciplinary Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Clinical divisions include:

• General anesthesia, including a full range of surgical subspecialties
• Cardiac anesthesia
• Critical care medicine
• Pain service

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) is a 300+ bed hospital located less than 1 mile north-west of HUP. It has a long tradition of service to the surrounding community in West Philadelphia, and it provides an unusual mix of "community practice" in an academic environment.

Presby is a major orthopedic site in the Health System, and residents rotate there in order to expand this part of their practice, including regional blocs for both upper and lower limb orthopedic procedures. It is also the location of the service for the care of patients with chronic pain problems.

There are many surgical specialities at PPMC, including cardiac, thoracic and bariatric; however resident experience in many of these procedures is obtained at HUP, and further exposure to these procedures is not deemed of educational necessity.

Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital

Located on the western edge of the medical school campus, the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital (VAH) provides care for military veterans. Anesthesia residents rotating through the VAH provide anesthesia for a wide variety of surgical procedures.

Top ^