(soft upbeat music)
- [Voiceover] This is OHSU, shaped by leaders, pioneers,
and those brave enough to take that first step.
We carry the torch and shine a light on what is possible.
We are a collaboration of disciplines
listening to one another, learning from each other.
The OHSU Anesthesiology
and Perioperative Medicine Residency Program
is more than an opportunity to gain experience.
It's your time to serve with a community
of trailblazers and groundbreakers.
- The thing that helps us stand apart
from others is our supportive
and teamwork-oriented approach.
We have a very collegial and friendly working environment.
We have great relationships with our surgical colleagues,
the nursing colleagues.
Ever since I started here in 2014,
I felt that teamwork approach was much more front
and center here than other places that I've experienced.
- The ACGME regulates every program,
and so every program has to teach you anesthesiology.
And so, finding your people is probably
the more important thing
'cause you're gonna be living there,
you're gonna be a resident.
- One of my questions to one of the attendees here
was like, "What is your quality of life?
Like, I can get great training at a lot of different places.
What makes OHSU different in terms of being happy?"
And he was telling me about their flexibility, you know,
in terms of how he sets up a schedule,
both clinically and research wise.
And it was something that I had never heard of before.
And he's like, "Yeah, this is one of the things
that we take pride in is being flexible,
making sure that we can accommodate people
who have families, or people who have, you know,
other constraints, making sure that they wanna be here."
- The case that I'm in right now
is actually a plastic surgery case,
is a patient who has had breast cancer
and is undergoing breast reconstruction surgery.
My role as an anesthesiologist is to be
with the patient throughout the entire case,
letting them know what the expectations are gonna be,
making sure that all of their vital signs are stable
from heart rate, blood pressure, their oxygenation,
making sure that the vent is working,
making sure that we can titrate all of the settings,
pain control's another big part of it.
- I'm over at the VA right now.
And so the team is comprised of doctors, nurses,
social workers, psychologists,
a ton of people to sort of help patients
through what we call serious illness.
So it doesn't have to be end of life or hospice
or anything like that.
It can just be a big diagnosis
that is hard to deal with.
And so we try to help with symptom management,
pain management, existential management.
We have chaplains who are part of the team too.
And so just getting to know patients and trying
to figure out how to help them through a big event
in their life is really our role.
- A resident coming to this program is going
to get an excellent clinical education.
They're going to leave this program,
having seen more than they really need to see of all
of the different types of cases that that are out there.
Most of our training happens here at OHSU,
but residents will go to different locations as well.
They're all nearby here in Portland,
but across the bridge to Doernbecher Children's Hospital,
across the different bridge to the VA hospital,
we have a private practice experience
with some, one of the Kaiser facilities.
So through that, residents will get a broad range
of experience in different locations,
in addition to the different types of cases.
- When I was applying to programs,
there was certain categories that I felt like I needed
to meet and OHSU one by one,
like just kept checking every single one of 'em.
I wanted to be surrounded by people that were
one, gonna be helping me,
two, supporting me
in any way possible.
And you know, three, just want a nice people, you know,
all around to, to just help me grow as a clinician.
And yeah, I really do feel like OHSU has met all
of those expectations.
- Before this. I was a Biomedical Engineer.
So I worked in Orthopedic Spine Designing Instruments
for a couple of years.
And then I did a PhD in Stem Cell and Cancer Biology.
And then I came here and I'm in the research track,
but there are people who came here who were pilots
and there, you know, flying, you know,
fighter planes for a year.
There are people who were whitewater rafting instructors,
or ski instructors,
there are people here who were social workers.
So I feel like there's a whole spectrum of life
that is brought into the program
aside from being a clinician or being a researcher.
I think that makes it fun. That makes it really interesting.
- [Voiceover] At some point,
it's about the Why you do what you do
as much as the How.
We do it because we are bold.
We do it because someone needs to make the difference
and we know we can make the difference
because we already have.
We welcome the curious, inspired,
and those willing to be bold.
This is OHSU.