M.D. (Anaesthesiology)

Doctor of Medicine in Anesthesiology

Duration:	2 Years
Level:	Post Graduation
Type:	Degree
Eligibility:	Graduation

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M.D. Anaesthesiology or Doctor of Medicine in Anesthesiology is a post graduate Anaesthesia course. Anaesthesiology focuses on utilization of drugs that minimize pain by causing insensibility. Under this degree, students learn about areas such as ambulatory anesthesia, cardiothoracic anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, neuroanesthesia, obstetrical anesthesiology and pain management. Anesthesia controls pain during surgery or other medical procedures. It includes using medicines, and sometimes closes monitoring, to keep you comfortable. It can also help control breathing, blood pressure, blood flow, and heart rate and rhythm, when needed. Some of the types of Anesthesia are local anesthesia, regional anesthesia and general anesthesia. The duration of the course is two years and it is an important and job orienting in nature.

M.D. Anaesthesiology Eligibility 

• M.B.B.S. with minimum 50% marks
• Some of the very reputed universities and institutes conduct entrance examination to get admission to the degree course.

M.D. Anaesthesiology Syllabus

The following are study related subjects:-

Sr. No.	Subjects of Study
1	Human Anatomy and Physiology
2	Pharmacology
3	Pathophysiology of various diseases
4	Medicine
5	Physics
6	Perioperative Anaesthesia management
7	Theory and practice of various techniques/ aspects of Routine & Emergency cases of General Anaesthesia
8	History of Anaesthesia
9	Airway Management
10	Basic & Advanced Cardiopulmonary & Cerebral Resuscitation (CPCR)
11	Acid base & Fluid management
12	Arterial, Central Venous and P.A. Lines
13	Anaesthetic drugs used in perioperative care
14	Equipments
15	Medical gases
16	Day Care/ Outpatient Anaesthesia
17	Remote Location Anaesthesia
18	Emergency Anaesthesia
19	Monitored Anaesthesia
20	Labor Analgesia
21	Pain relief
22	Critical care practice
23	Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
24	Occupational Hazards
25	Safety in Anaesthesia
26	Complications of Anaesthetic procedures, its prevention, detection and management
27	Record keeping in Anaesthesia
28	Medical Audit
29	Quality Assurance
30	Anaesthesia standards: e.g. Minimum monitoring standard
31	Medicolegal aspects in Anaesthesia
32	Ethics in Anaesthesia
33	Principles of Evidence Based Medicine
34	Basic Research Methodology and Clinical Trials
35	Bio-statistics
36	Computers

M.D. Anaesthesiology Course Suitability

• Course is suitable for those who want to deliver services in the preoperative setting, pain management and critical care, excellence in the education of medical students, residents and fellows and to contribute to the specialty of anesthesiology through our commitment to education, research, and scholarly activities care good match for it.
• They should be good in patient care, education, research, faculty development and the advancement of the specialty of anesthesiology.
• Those who want to become teacher/ lecturer and want to have further higher studies also suitable for it.
• They should be able to perform pre-operative examinations of patients to determine appropriate anaesthetic and sedation in concurrence with Internal Medicine Specialists and Surgeons.

How is M.D. Anaesthesiology Course Beneficial?

• It is beneficial for further higher studies such as Ph.D. etc. as it provides good and solid base for them.
• It also teaches the students to provide direct medical care to patients requiring general or local anaesthesia for surgical, diagnostic and other procedures such as prevention of pain and maintenance of body function.
• They can have jobs relating to administering local, regional and general anaesthetics using a variety of methods such as inhalational and intravenous administration.
• They can teach in schools both on government and private basis as teachers and after passing UGC-NET exam they can go for lecturer jobs in colleges and universities.

M.D. Anaesthesiology Job Types

• Registrar-Cardiac Anaesthesia
• Senior Residents-Anaesthesia
• Consultant Anaesthesia
• Anaesthetist
• Senior Registrar Anaesthesia
• Asst. Professor-Anaesthesia
• Critical Care Specialist
• Lecturer-Anaesthesiology