This month marks my one-year anniversary of editing the “Residents’ Review” column. Coincidentally, January also marks a little over one year of my being an anesthesia resident, as I was elected to the ASA Resident Component early into my CA-1 year.
It’s been a topsy-turvy year. I chose the field of anesthesiology because I enjoyed doing procedures and physiology and pharmacology were my favorite classes in medical school. This is the cliché answer in most anesthesiology residency interviews, but in my case it was actually true. However, life as an anesthesiologist is very different than I could have ever imagined – namely because in the early days of CA-1 year, I discovered what little exposure to anesthesiology I had as a medical student.
Luckily – or perhaps not so luckily – I am a resident in a time of feedback culture, where residency programs are mandated to provide feedback at...
