To meet the challenges of evolving health care and medical education, the residency training curriculum undergoes changes at regular intervals by local and national graduate medical education oversight bodies. The recent pandemic significantly impacted learning opportunities for residents across all specialties. Teaching medical skills is an art and science simultaneously. The residency training curriculum serves as the most important framework to provide trainees with sufficient medical knowledge, skills, and judgment necessary to be independent practitioners. Notably, we face a critical dilemma between our duty to educate and provide the safest care for patients, all the while respecting our patients' autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and consent to undergo procedures by trainees (Anaesthesia 2018;73:940-5).
In anesthesiology, procedural skills play an essential role in helping to deliver safe patient care, and airway management is the most complex of those. In general, teaching airway management includes three components – anatomical knowledge, procedural proficiency,...