University of Ottawa Regional Anesthesia Fellowship
Program
The Ottawa Hospital is the major tertiary centre for the Nations capital and the primary
teaching centre for the University of Ottawa. The Regional Anesthesia Fellowship program is
well established and nationally recognized. Our subspecialty core group has received Regional
Anesthesia Fellowship training from a variety of locations: Brigham and Women’s Harvard
University, The Monash Medical centre, Australia, The Virginia Mason Center, Seattle, Duke
University, and locally at the University of Ottawa. One of our members has been awarded the
Canadian Anesthesiologist’s Society Clinical Teacher Award for outstanding contributions to
Resident, Fellow and Medical student teaching and administration in Regional Anesthetic
Techniques. Former graduates of our Fellowship training program have been instrumental in
the development of their own regional anesthesia training in their home base nationally and
internationally.
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Our Fellowship program is one year in duration.
You will share your time between Civic and General Campus. This program
focuses on a variety of orthopedic surgeries (rotator cuff, arthroscopic shoulder repairs,
elbow/wrist arthroscopy), and also vascular (amputations, carotid endarterectomy, AV fistula)
and trauma anesthesia. We also perform paravertebral single shot blocks for our mastectomy
patients. This area of study has been awarded a Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society
Research Award. You will also rotate through the Riverside Campus. The Riverside is the site
of all ambulatory surgery and also the base site for our outpatient ambulatory plexus service.
We have recently acquired ultrasound machines and will incorporate them as a standard in our
Fellowship program. We have kept the Fellow numbers to one in order to maximize exposure
for and increase teaching opportunities. From my personal experience, one year will allow for a
maximal breath of exposure and participation in research trials.
We
are fortunate at The Ottawa Hospital in that we have 7 formal Regional Anesthesia Fellowship trained Anesthesiologists.
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Anesthesia Fellowship trained Anesthesiologists.
These Anesthesiologists were trained at a variety of centers across the world
including Harvard University, Virginia Mason center in Seattle, Duke
University, the University of Florida, and the Monash Medical Centre in
Australia. Former graduating Fellows from our Program have established Regional
Anesthesia Programs at the National Guard Health Center in Saudi Arabia,
Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada, and our most recent Fellow
has now established a Regional Anesthesia service in Singapore that nationally
performs more peripheral plexus blocks that any other center in the country.
If you
are interested in the University of Ottawa Regional Anesthesia Fellowship
program, please send three references and your curriculum vitae to:Dr. Desiree
Persaud, Regional Anesthesia Director dpersaud@ottawahospital.on.ca
Applications for fellowship position starting July 1 2010 are now closed.
One Fellowship position is open for the July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 academic year.
Applications will be accepted from January 2010 to June 2010 for July 2011 - June 2012 year.
Applicants for July 1, 2011 will start being accepted Jan 2010-June 2010. Review
of all applicants occurs each year in June-August 2010.
2011-12 brochure will be available soon. In the mean time, you may download year 2010-11 information brochure in PDF format: Regional Anesthesia in Ottawa 2010-11
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The
referees can fax their reports to 613-761-5032 and send their originals by mail
to:
Dr. Desiree Persaud MD FRCPC
Regional
Anesthesia Director
C/O
Department of Anesthesiology
The
Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, Room B309
1053
Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1Y
4E9
Phone: 613-761-4169 ext 1 (Country Code 1)
