EDUCATION IN ANESTHESIA. HOW TO DELIVER THE BEST LEARNING EXPERIENCE

1. Creating (and choosing) an optimal learning environment
2. Learning styles in anesthesiology education
3. Clinical reasoning
4. Curriculum development
5. Time-efficient teaching strategies in anesthesia
6. Teaching in the preanesthesia clinic
7. Teaching in the operating room
8. Teaching in the ICU: creating an effective educational experience
9. Pain medicine education in anesthesiology training
10. A foundation for teaching airway management
11. Teaching and learning regional anesthesia
12. Teaching transesophageal echocardiography
13. Teaching point of care ultrasound (POCUS) to the perioperative physician
14. How to design multimedia presentations
15. The interactive classroom
16. E-learning in anesthesiology
17. The role of simulation in anesthesiology education
18. Test-enhanced learning: using retrieval practice via testing to enhance long term retention of knowledge
19. Teaching professionalism during anesthesiology residency
20. Providing feedback
21. The resident as a teacher
22. Teaching quality and safety
23. Teaching residents how to critically read and apply medical literature
24. Training physician-scientists in anesthesiology and perioperative medicine: challenges, opportunities, and strategies for success

Do you want to improve your teaching skills in graduate medical education? This book provides suggestions and practical examples for teaching in the Pre-Anesthesia Clinic, the Operating Room, the Pain Clinic, and the ICU. Designed to help the reader become a more efficient and effective teacher, it also provides best practice suggestions for teaching airway management, regional anesthesia, transesophageal echocardiography, and newer technologic advancements such as point-of-care ultrasound. Based on research in education, this book provides information for all medical educators, including creating the optimal learning environment, teaching clinical reasoning, using multimedia and simulation, making the classroom interactive, and the significance of test-enhanced learning, while presenting specific examples of each. Chapters include teaching professionalism, preparing residents to be teachers, teaching quality and safety, providing feedback, and teaching residents how to read the literature. This volume emphasizes providing practical suggestions from recognized leaders in each of the areas discussed.

Features
• Provides practical suggestions for ways to teach specific techniques such as airway management, point of care ultrasound, transesophageal echocardiography and regional anesthesia
• Discusses results of the most recent research in education, offering practical suggestions on optimizing and enhancing the educational experience
• Emphasizes the importance of the learning environment, clinical reasoning, the interactive classroom, time efficient teaching, and other necessary skills, while providing practical examples of ways to optimize each

Authors
• Edwin A. Bowe, University of Kentucky
Edwin A. Bowe, MD has been interested in the quality and efficiency of anesthesia education since 1977 when, as a resident, he developed a program of evaluating faculty members as teachers. He was selected as Teacher of the Year at both the University of South Carolina and the University of Kentucky and received Abraham Flexner Master Educator awards from the University of Kentucky. He has been actively involved in continuing education programs for the American Society of Anesthesiologists including as an editor for the Self Education and Evaluation program and as the initial Editor-in-Chief for the Anesthesiology Continuing Education program.
• Randall M. Schell, University of Kentucky
Randall M. Schell MD, MACM is a cardiac anesthesiologist with a masters degree in education (Masters in Academic Medicine) whose academic career focus is on best methods of teaching and learning. He has more than twenty years' experience as an anesthesiology program director and director of education in anesthesiology and has won many medical student, resident, and faculty teaching awards. He has authored multiple book chapters on anesthesiology education, published educational research in many journals, and produces videocasts utilized by national and international audiences. Dr Schell's passion is for providing an optimal learning experience that incorporates the most recent evidence in education.
• Amy N. DiLorenzo, University of Kentucky
Amy N. DiLorenzo, M.A. serves as educational specialist for the University of Kentucky's Department of Anesthesiology, providing expertise for the Anesthesiology residency program and fellowships. She additionally serves as the College of Medicine's Assistant Dean for educational innovation and scholarship in graduate medical education. Her focus is fostering academic collaboration and professional development to advance the scholarship of GME faculty and learners. She has facilitated faculty and trainee research, as well as educational innovations. She has been awarded four Abraham Flexner Master Educator Awards. Her areas of professional interest include active learning methodologies, educational psychology, and research on educational innovations.