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Find anesthesia course electives for MD students, and meet the anesthesia faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine–Indianapolis.

Anesthesia MD Education in Indianapolis

Anesthesia Clerkship Director
9203-Webb, Timothy

Timothy T. Webb, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Phase 2 - Education Coordinator
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Melissa Nobbe

1130 West Michigan Street
Fesler Hall 204
Indianapolis, IN 46202
nobbem@iu.edu

Phase 3 - Education Coordinator
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Heather Hollcraft

1130 West Michigan Street
Fesler Hall 204
Indianapolis, IN 46202

hhollcra@iu.edu

Course Electives

  • 49AN706 - ANESTHESIA

    Faculty: Ryan Harris, MD

    Description
    Only students going into Anesthesia as their specialty are approved to sign up for this course. The St. Vincent Anesthesia elective will consist of daily reading, an airway workshop, working in the OR one on one with an anesthesiologist, and a quiz at the end of the month. The educational focus will be on airway, fluids, autonomics, and cardiovascular physiology with additional topics available as desired by the student. Students should expect to get more than just intubation experience and should be prepared for daily didactics and required reading throughout the month. This is a great course to improve the understanding of private practice anesthesia, general knowledge on the previous topics mentioned, and procedural skills. Goal: Improve understanding anesthesia as a profession, improve knowledge on general medicine topics, and improve procedural skills.

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    Primary Contact:
    Beth Dragoo

  • 93AK701 - PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA TWO-WEEK ELECTIVE
    Faculty: Jian Ye, MD

    Description

    Students will be exposed to a variety of facets of pediatric anesthesia. The 2-week includes predominantly OR anesthesia. The student will also spend some time with Certified Child Life Specialists, Acute Pain Service, Chronic Pain Service, and Preoperative Evaluation clinic as time permits. Book chapters and review articles are provided for most of these activities. 

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    Primary Contact:
    Heather Hollcraft - anesume@iu.edu

  • 93AN700 - ANESTHESIA RESEARCH
    Faculty: Yar Luan Yeap, MD

    Description

    Student will learn about data collection for clinical research, including building the data collection tools and analyzing the data. Student will also learn to write an IRB protocol and understand the process behind a clinical research.

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    Primary Contact:
    Yar Luan Yeap, MD

     

  • 93AN713 - ANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE

    Faculty: Timothy T. Webb, MD

    Description

    The discipline of anesthesia is closely connected with critical care medicine. Most often, students interested in a career in anesthesia often experience the operating room and intensive care unit in separate clinical experiences. This elective allows for students to experience both during a two-week elective. Students will spend one week with a critical care trained anesthesiologist on service caring for patients in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU). During the second week, students will have the opportunity to work with anesthesia residents and faculty in the operating room delivering clinical anesthesia to surgical patients.

     

    Primary Contact:
    Anesthesia Education Team - ANESUME@iu.edu

     

    THIS ELECTIVE DOES NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE INITIAL SENIOR MATCH. For permission to enroll in this elective please contact Anesthesia Education Team (anesume@iu.edu). This is a two-week (2 credit) elective that only occurs if one of the course directors is scheduled in the ICU, this elective may not be offered every rotation.

  • 93AN714 - ANESTHESIA MEDICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH PROJECT

    Faculty: Tanna Boyer, D.O., M.S.

    Description

    During this elective, you will be introduced to medical education research in the field of anesthesiology and/or anesthesia simulation. You will complete a research project during this elective that can be written on your CV and placed under the research box in your ERAS residency application. If you are interested, this smaller research project can be turned into a poster presentation or publication. Possible poster presentation locations include Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists Meeting, American Society of Anesthesiologists Meeting, Society of Education in Anesthesia Meeting, or International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare.

     

    This is an online elective.

    Primary Contact:
    Anesthesia Education Team - ANESUME@iu.edu

  • 93AN730 - MEDICAL LEADERSHIP READING ELECTIVE

    Faculty: Corinna Yu, MD

    Description

    Medical students will be exposed to the writings of thought leaders in the business of medicine and medical leadership. The changing landscape of health care reform and finance will alter the perception and role of future physicians. The goal of this elective is to broaden the scope of medical school curriculum and move beyond individual clinical achievement. The reading month is divided into four one-week modules. Each week, students will invest 4 days in assigned reading and 1 day in reflection and writing. Students will submit a 2-3 page essay weekly on various topics related to leadership, culminating in a vision statement as a future physician leader.

     

    Primary Contact:
    Corinna Yu, M.D. (cjyu@iu.edu)

     

  • 93AN740 - ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE I

    Faculty: Corinna Yu, M.D.

    Description:

    The primary aim of this course is to achieve a foundational level of understanding for the practice of anesthesiology through involvement in the continuous care of patients preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively until PACU discharge. In addition, students will be exposed to at least one subspecialty area such as pediatric anesthesiology, acute pain management, or obstetric anesthesiology.

     

    Students will interact with residents and faculty to gain insight into anesthesiology training program expectations. This course is designed to emphasize critical thinking, deductive reasoning, clinical decision-making, and problem-based learning. Active learning will include cognitive, affective, communication, and interpersonal skill development as a perioperative team member. Clinical experience will be complemented by clinical teaching, didactic sessions/modules, and departmental conferences. Independent and self-directed learning will be required through Canvas modules, assigned reading, case discussions, and reflective writing.

    Students may work a few late afternoon and evening shifts in order to experience call-like schedules and cases, but neither in-house nor at-home call is required. Students may have the opportunity to participate in simulation sessions with residents and faculty. Assignment to specific teaching hospitals will be arranged by the course director.

     

    Primary Contact:
    Anesthesia Education Team (anesume@iu.edu)
  • 93AN741 - ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE II

    Faculty: Corinna Yu, M.D.

    Description:

    The primary aim of this course is to achieve a foundational level of understanding for the practice of anesthesiology through involvement in the continuous care of patients preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively until PACU discharge. In addition, students will be exposed to at least one subspecialty area such as pediatric anesthesiology, acute pain management, or obstetric anesthesiology.  

     

    Students will interact with residents and faculty to gain insight into anesthesiology training program expectations. This course is designed to emphasize critical thinking, deductive reasoning, clinical decision making, and problem-based learning. Active learning will include cognitive, affective, communication, and interpersonal skill development as a perioperative team member. Clinical experience will be complemented by clinical teaching, didactic sessions/modules, and departmental conferences. Independent and self-directed learning will be required through Canvas modules, assigned reading, case discussions, and reflective writing.

    Students may work a few late afternoon and evening shifts in order to experience call-like schedules and cases, but neither in-house nor at-home call is required. Students may have opportunity to participate in simulation sessions with residents and faculty. Assignment to specific teaching hospitals will be arranged by the course director.

     

    Primary Contact:
    Anesthesia Education Team (anesume@iu.edu)
  • 93AN771 - INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT (TWO-WEEK ELECTIVE)
    Faculty: Sanjay Kuber, M.D.  Description

    This elective will introduce the student to Pain management through participation in the evaluation and treatment of patients seen at the Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis.   Students will gain exposure to a vast variety of interventional pain procedures including the most advanced procedures in Pain Management e.g.:  Spinal cord stimulators, implanted pain pumps, Radiofrequency ablations, Kyphoplasty, and MILD procedures.
    The rotation will consist of outpatient chronic pain management also, inpatient consults are evaluated regularly. In addition, students will get exposure to acute postoperative pain management and different regional anesthesia techniques.

     

    Primary Contact:
    Anesthesia Education Teamanesume@iu.edu

     

Indianapolis Faculty

27483-Boyer, Tanna

Tanna J. Boyer, DO, MS

Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Course Director for Anesthesia Medical Education Research Project

9203-Webb, Timothy

Timothy T. Webb, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Course Director for Anesthesia and Critical Care 

26867-Ye, Jian

Jian Ye, MS, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Course Director for Pediatric Anesthesia

19835-Guillaud, Daniel

Daniel A. Guillaud, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Assistant Course Director of APM, Eskenazi Site Director

41965-Packiasabapathy, Senthil

Senthil Packiasabapathy, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Assistant Course Director, Riley Site Director

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26045-Yu, Corinna

Corinna Yu, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Course Director for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (APM) and Medical Leadership Reading 

13508-Kuber, Sanjay

Sanjay B. Kuber, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Course Director for Interventional Pain Management

17136-Yeap, Yar Luan

Yar Luan Yeap, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Course Director for Anesthesia Research

17282-Dammann, Erin

Erin Dammann, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Assistant Course Director, University, Methodist, Riley OB Site Director

Read Bio Erin Dammann, MD

Additional Indianapolis faculty

Regional Information

IU School of Medicine Regional Campus:

IU School of Medicine–Indianapolis
635 Barnhill Drive
Student Affairs Room 164
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Rotation Sites:

Ascension - St.Vincent Hospital
2001 West 86th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46260

IU Health Methodist - Senate Street Surgery Center
1801 N Senate Blvd, Suite D145
Indianapolis, IN 46202

IU Health - University Hospital
550 North University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
1481 W 10th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
705 Riley Hospital Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital
720 Eskenazi Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46202