Anesthesiologist Job Description

Education:

I went to college for four years and then medical school. After medical school, I did an anesthesiology residency, which was an additional four years.

Tips For Your First Years of Work Experience (Post Residency):

Your first multiple years of training, or work after training, be in a challenging environment (so basically hospital work or academics).

Avoid This Mistake:

People coming out of training try to find a cush job in medicine or a job where they don't have to take call, which tend to be outpatient jobs in medicine, not hospital based. And I think this can be a mistake because those are the years of high learning and there's nothing like experience.

Reproductive Health Clinic:

I'm the anesthesiologist at our reproductive health clinic, putting people to sleep primarily for egg retrievals and other reproductive surgeries that they need.

Career Concerns:

Couple concerns I do have about my job is I have a contract with the facility and it's a contract to provide all the anesthesia services that they need. So I'm 100% responsible 365 days a year. I have a group of people that can back me up and I can try to get days off to go on vacation or a weekend off to go out of town, but if nobody can cover for me, then I can't. So this is quite a big responsibility.

Career Pros:

I'm really happy at my job. I love the people I work with. Now I get to help young healthy people have babies, which is really rewarding.