Make your transition into practice easier with these 20 hand-selected, complimentary courses available to all ASA resident and student members.

These courses offer you up-to-date information and many of these topics may appear on future exams. The content is aligned to ACGME and other training program requirements. Importantly, this patient safety information will put you ahead of the game when you graduate and enter practice. Jane Easdown MDCM, MHPE, Program Director for Neuroanesthesia Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• Safety Project Inception, Readiness, and Implementation Training (SPIRIT)
  • Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Fundamentals of Patient Safety 2018 – Highly recommended by Dr. Easdown
  • Estimated time to complete: 10 hrs
• Infection Control and Prevention – Highly recommended by Dr. Easdown
  • Estimated time to complete: 2 hrs
• Medication Safety & Drug Errors – Highly recommended by Dr. Easdown
  • Estimated time to complete: 45 min
• Drug Errors in Anesthesia
  • Estimated time to complete: 45 min
• Difficult Airway Algorithm
  • Estimated time to complete: 15 min
• Using Cognitive Aids in Anesthesiology
• Estimated time to complete: 3 hrs
• Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Understanding Medical Accidents
  • Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Addressing Medication Harm Head On: Best Medication Safety Practices
  • Estimated time to complete: 2 hrs
• Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Optimizing Safety, Communication, and Team Work in and Around the Pediatric Operating Room
  • Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Bringing Emergency Manuals to Your Institution? A Step-by-Step Guide for Successful Implementation
  • Estimated time to complete: 3 hrs
• Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - You Want Me to Give Anesthesia WHERE? Patient Safety in Non-OR Locations
  • Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Fatigue Risk Management: Making Overnight Call Safer
  • Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2018 - Situational Awareness and Crisis Management: Strategies to Improve Patient Safety in Anesthesia Practice
  • Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2017 - Building the Best Cardiac Operating Room Team: Lessons in Leadership, Teamwork, and Communication
  • Estimated time to complete: 1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2017 - Hand Hygiene, OR Attire, OR Traffic:  What is the Data and Can We Make a Difference?
  • Estimated time to complete: 2 hrs
• Patient Safety Highlights 2017 - Ellison C. Pierce Lecture: Anesthesia Patient Safety: Closing the Gap Between Perception and Reality
  • Estimated time to complete:1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2016 - A Night on Call on Labor and Delivery: Take Home Points
  • Estimated time to complete:1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2016 - Errors in Pediatric Anesthesia: What Can We Learn From Our Mistakes?
  • Estimated time to complete:1 hr
• Patient Safety Highlights 2016 - Structured Handoffs Improve the Care of the Critically Ill
  • Estimated time to complete:1 hr