From our last program review, we received continued accreditation with no citations from the ACGME.

Vacation

• 3 weeks off each year (15 working days)
• No call the weekend before and the weekend after the vacation week, allowing for 9 consecutive days off

Sick Leave

• Up to 5 sick days per year

Meeting Days

• All residents receive an education fund that can be utilized for purchasing educational materials and for attending up to 5 national meeting and conference days per year. If presenting original research, case reports, or technical exhibits at a meeting, a resident can receive up to $1,250 in department coverage to subsidize the meeting expenses.

• Resident salaries at UNC are listed on the Graduate Medical Education site here
• Costs of health/dental insurance at UNC are listed here on the Graduate Medical Education site
• For those residents that do their PGY-1 (Clinical Base Year) at UNC, fees for the USMLE Step 3 exam are reimbursed by the department
• All residents receive an I-Pad when starting the CA-1 year for use during residency
• $2,000 education fund is allocated to each resident for the duration of their residency for purchasing books, educational resources, and attending approved meetings
• The American Board of Anesthesia (ABA) Written Exam fees are reimbursed by the department for those residents scoring above the 30th percentile on their In-training Examination
• Annual resident training license renewal fee is reimbursed by the department
• American Society of Anesthesiologists annual membership dues are paid for by the department annually for each resident
• Residents will be reimbursed for the cost of the Basic Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography board examination if the resident passes the examination.

At the beginning of residency, each resident is given money on a card that they can use at various cafeterias around the hospital. The department divides funds placed on food allowance cards equally among all residents. Overall, residents accrue enough money on their card to cover all of their meals on call, with some to spare.

Each resident will far surpass the minimum number of cases required by the ACGME and can expect to do more than 1,200 cases during their three years of Anesthesiology training

	Required	Mean at UNC	% of required
Total Cases		1,427
Cardiac	20	56	280
C-section	20	70	350
Epidural	40	200	500
Intracerebral	20	40	200
Intracerebral (open)	11	37	336
Intrathoracic (non-cardiac)	20	38	190
New pain evaluation	20	75	375
Peripheral nerve block	40	165	413
Spinal	40	120	300
Vaginal delivery	40	113	283
Vascular major vessels	20	72	360
Life-threatening pathology	20	76	380
Patients < 3 months	5	11	220
Patients < 3 years	20	68	340
Patients < 12 years	100	161	161

Our department is very well respected by our surgical colleagues, who value greatly the care we provide to our patients. We have seven faculty members in our department who serve as Intensivists in our SICU and CTICU, further strengthening this relationship with our surgeons. Our residents also rotate through various ICU settings where they form friendships with surgical attendings and residents which carry into the OR setting. We are proud of the collegial relationship we maintain with our surgeons, nursing and ancillary colleagues. Over the course of your training, you will develop great working relationships with your surgical peers at UNC.

We have >80 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in our department who help support our educational and clinical mission. This allows our residents great flexibility with elective rotations and opportunities outside of the OR environment. The relationship between CRNAs, faculty, and residents is very collegial and collaborative. We mutually support each other in our joint mission of excellent patient care and quality education. Student Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs) from Duke rotate through our department. They are always paired with our CRNAs, and are never supervised by residents. In addition, we also have a wonderful small group of AAs as well who are important members of our team!  Our clinical teams are additionally supported by 35 full-time Anesthesia Tech (ATs) and 3 PRN Techs (includes ambulatory care / UNC Hospitals’ Hillsborough campus). One supervisor leads the dedicated AT corps who serve our patients at UNC Medical Center and all other UNC Health anesthesia care locations. Our AT team also manages 4-6 Durham Tech AT students on rotation at UNC Anesthesiology practice sites.

We currently offer 4 fellowships through our department: Pain Medicine, Pediatric Anesthesia, Obstetric Anesthesia, and Regional Anesthesia. The fellows in these groups primarily serve in a supervisory role, and do not limit the learning and procedural opportunities or our residents. Pediatric fellows perform their own cases and have little interaction with our residents. The Obstetric and Regional fellows serve as instructors and mentors for residents during their obstetric and regional rotations. The vast majority of procedures on these rotations (spinals, epidurals, nerve blocks) are performed by residents.