HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has established a caller Department of Anesthesiology to facilitate further learning opportunities for pupil education, probe and precocious training.
Anesthesiology physicians specialize successful the aesculapian absorption of patients before, during and aft surgery, known arsenic perioperative medicine. Anesthesiologists besides lend their expertise successful captious care, airway management, operating country absorption and acute and chronic symptom control. There is simply a nationalist shortage of anesthesiologists crossed the country, a inclination that’s deed agrarian communities and West Virginia peculiarly hard. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, determination is expected to beryllium a shortage of astir 12,500 anesthesiologists implicit the adjacent 10 years.
“Our aesculapian schoolhouse has benefited from the expertise of galore talented section anesthesiologists who person served arsenic unpaid module implicit the years,” said Bobby L. Miller, M.D., interim dean of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. “As we look to the future, however, it is evident, that we request to make a much robust mechanics for maturation successful this country of specialty attraction successful bid to code workforce shortages and alteration our operating rooms to relation astatine maximum efficiency.”
The section volition beryllium led by alumnus Jay Shepherd, M.D., who earned his Doctor of Medicine from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine successful 2007. Shepherd completed his residency astatine Tulane University successful New Orleans, Louisiana, and has served arsenic an anesthesiologist astatine King’s Daughters Medical Center successful Ashland, Kentucky, since 2011. He is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology.
As subordinate prof and seat of anesthesiology, Shepherd volition enactment alongside anesthesiologists from NorthStar Anesthesia, a nationalist anesthesiology radical that supports the school’s superior teaching hospitals arsenic portion of Mountain Health Network and the Hershel “Woody” Williams VA Medical Center. He volition enactment to physique a halfway module to enactment the department’s clinical, acquisition and probe missions and initiate steps to yet found an accredited anesthesiology residency astatine Marshall.
“The instauration of a formalized Department of Anesthesiology is an unthinkable accidental to guarantee outstanding perioperative attraction for each patients portion enhancing the grooming situation for aboriginal physicians,” Shepherd said. “Matching into an anesthesiology residency programme has go progressively competitive. In the coming months and years, we volition enactment to enrich the acquisition acquisition for aesculapian students funny successful this specialty successful bid to yet assistance them go much palmy successful their pursuit of that vocation path. To beryllium capable to pb these efforts astatine my alma mater is some an grant and a privilege.”
The section is housed successful the Marshall University Medical Center, located astatine 1600 Medical Center Drive successful Huntington, connected the Marshall University Health Sciences campus.
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About the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine is simply a community-based aesculapian schoolhouse established successful 1977. Located successful Huntington, West Virginia, the School of Medicine trains physicians, scientists and different professionals to conscionable the unsocial wellness attraction needs of agrarian and underserved communities. Learn much astatine jcesom.marshall.edu.
Contact: Sheanna M. Spence, Marshall Health/Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, 304-691-1639
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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