Department: Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine

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ANES199Undergraduate ResearchAllows for qualified students to undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANES202Anesthesiology and Pathophysiologic Implications for the Perioperative PatientProvides participants a case-based review of organ physiology and an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiologic mechanisms during the perioperative period that affect outcome in surgical patients. All major organ systems will be discussed, and subje...
ANES203Evaluating New Health Care Ventures: An Everyone Included ApproachClass Objective: With ever-growing innovation in healthcare, how do investors evaluate and fund new ventures in one of the most diverse, operationally complex and regulated industries? Health care investment is unique in its dynamic evolution across...
ANES207Medical AcupunctureAcupuncture is part of a comprehensive system of traditional Chinese Medicine developed over the past two millennia. This course reviews the history and theoretical basis of acupuncture for the treatment of various diseases as well as for the allevi...
ANES215Current Controversies and Emerging Technologies in Applied NeuroscienceIn this survey course we invite speakers form neuroscience disciplines such as psychiatry, nerurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and more to discuss innovative work and recent controversies in the field. We center the discussion around critical re...
ANES280Early Clinical Experience in AnesthesiaProvides an observational experience as determined by the instructor and student. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANES281Medicine in Movies: The Illness ExperienceStudent lead:: This virtual seminar will introduce students to films, documentaries, and shorts with medical and bioethical themes. Viewings will encourage students to examine their own pre-conceptions and evaluate topics that elucidate illness as su...
ANES298Development of Novel Strategy for Reducing Pediatric Hospital-Acquired Pressure InjuriesHospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) most often develop in immobilized patients, with pressure on tissues that overlie bony prominences; the most vulnerable areas being the occiput, sacrum, and heels. HAPIs result in significant patient morbid...
ANES299Directed Reading in AnesthesiologyPrerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANES300AAnesthesia Operating Room ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides an introduction to the perioperative anesthetic management of the surgical patient. In this clinical setting, and under close faculty and resident supervis...
ANES300BAnesthesia Operating Room ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Exposes students to the administration of anesthetics to surgical patients in the operating room. In this clinical setting, at the PAVAMC and under close faculty and resident supe...
ANES300CAnesthesia Operating Room ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship is an introductory course to anesthesiology at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Clerkship students will be active participants during anesthesia cases and per...
ANES300DAnesthesia Operating Room ClerkshipVISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Three weeks are spent learning theoretical and practical anesthetic fundamentals under the supervision of the anesthesiology staff at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa...
ANES300EAnesthesia Operating Room ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The Anesthesia 300E clerkship exposes students to the fundamentals of anesthetic practice in a variety of clinical settings. Students will work one on one with private practitioner...
ANES300PPediatric Anesthesia ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: An introduction to the perioperative and intraoperative anesthetic management of the pediatric patient in a clinical setting. Under close supervision by faculty, fellows and resid...
ANES302AObstetrical Anesthesia ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Covers the following areas: a theoretical understanding of the physiology of normal pregnancy; pain mechanisms in labor; methods of analgesia and anesthesia with advantages and co...
ANES304AChronic Pain Management ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Relates the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and psychosocial components of pain to the understanding and care of patients with acute, chronic, or cancer pain. Students are inv...
ANES306ACritical Care Core ClerkshipVISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit. Students learn how to optimize care for the acutely ill patient and participate in the multidisciplinary app...
ANES306PCritical Care Core ClerkshipVISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: During this rotation, students provide care for critically ill children at Packard Children's Hospital. The rotation consists of a 4-week block in the NICU or the PICU. The Pedi...
ANES307ACardiovascular Anesthesia ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors (Current COVID protocols at SOM restrict visiting students, subject to change). TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: A two-week clerkship that gives the student exposure to the principles and practice of cardiovascular...
ANES340AMedical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Designed to give medical students an in-depth exposure to critical care medicine focusing on advancement to the manger level for complex, critically ill patients. It offers student...
ANES340BMedical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit ClerkshipVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital Medical-Surgical ICU Service. Students learn ho...
ANES370Medical Scholars ResearchProvides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
ANES398ASpecial Clinical Elective in AnesthesiaVISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides an opportunity for a student in the clinical years to have an individualized clinical experience in Anesthesia. The student may elect to arrange a clerkship either with a...
ANES399Graduate ResearchStudents undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Problems related to metabolism, toxicity, and mechanisms of anesthesia; pharmacologic studies involving pain management; the genetic and molecular basis of hemodynamic insuff...
ANES70QCritical Illness: Patients, Physicians, and SocietyExamines the various factors involved in shaping the critical care illness experience for three groups of people: the clinicians, the patients, and patients' families. Medical issues, economic forces and cost concerns, cultural biases, and communicat...
ANES72QThe Art of Medical DiagnosisThe Art of Medical Diagnosis: Enhancing Observational Skills through the Study of Art is an interactive, multidisciplinary undergraduate course that explores various ways in which studying art increases critical observational skills vital for aspirin...
ANES74QMending a broken heart: The Anatomy, Physiology and Psychology of congenital heart diseaseCongenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defects and with improvements in surgical techniques and medical care these babies are living longer and healthier lives. Data indicates that approximately 1 million US children and 1.2millio...
NBIO215Current Controversies and Emerging Technologies in Applied NeuroscienceIn this survey course we invite speakers form neuroscience disciplines such as psychiatry, nerurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and more to discuss innovative work and recent controversies in the field. We center the discussion around critical re...
NEPR215Current Controversies and Emerging Technologies in Applied NeuroscienceIn this survey course we invite speakers form neuroscience disciplines such as psychiatry, nerurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and more to discuss innovative work and recent controversies in the field. We center the discussion around critical re...