The Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Health Sciences Centre is accepting applications for candidates interested in Fellowship training in Pediatric Anesthesia.

The Children’s Hospital is a major referral centre. There are over 8,000 anesthetic cases each year at Children’s Hospital including neurosurgical, craniofacial, thoracic, neonatal, major orthopedic and urologic, general, ENT, and plastic surgical procedures. Several clinicians have interest and experience in the delivery of regional anesthesia. New technologies have increased the requirement for ‘off-site’ procedures and the anesthesia department at Children’s Hospital currently provides anesthesia for children in ten locations within the Health Sciences Centre. Our role has also expanded to include an active anesthesia pre-admission clinic and acute pain service.

Experience in specialized surgical procedures not performed at Children’s Hospital will be provided through clinical rotations at other pediatric institutions.

All anesthesiologists within the Section have University appointments within the Departments of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine and Child Health. Seven of the eight hold pediatric anesthesia fellowships from centres such as Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toronto, Michigan, Australia, and Montreal.

The fellow must have successfully completed an Anesthesia Residency program, and be eligible to sit the Examinations of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

The applicant must have a license to practice Anesthesia in the Province of Manitoba or be eligible to obtain a license in Manitoba.

The applicant will submit an application to the program consisting of:

• A letter of intent to apply

• The names and contact information for three references

• A current curriculum vitae Pending evaluation of the application, interviews will be offered to selected candidates.

There will be at most one position offered each year.

We offer a very competitive salary.

The Canmeds 2000 project by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons is an attempt to provide a framework for outlining the educational needs of residents in specialty training which incorporated the skills and attributes needed by society now, as well as the ability to build on those skills as the needs of society change in their future as specialty physicians. The Canmeds 2000 system envisions the educational mission as being to prepare the trainee to fulfill seven roles, with their attendant attributes. Although pediatric anesthesia is not yet a recognized subspecialty by the Royal College, the use of this framework provides for consistency with other elements of specialty training in Canada, and is a comprehensive model for conceptualizing educational goals and objectives.