Medical School Education on Anesthesiology and its Importance to the Number of Anesthesiologists

Abstract

  Education on clinical anesthesia has been focused on certified anesthesiologists. But, recently educating residents on anesthesia has also become important because of compulsory residency (super-rotation) . The quality of life of anesthesiologists has been regarded as the most important problem in improving the number of anesthesiologists. However, medical school education on anesthesiology is more important because medical students are the candidates to become future anesthesiologists. Among new medical students, those who wish to become anesthesiologists are quite rare. So, the most important points of medical school education on anesthesiology are to encourage the students to become interested in anesthesiology. To do so, it is also important to set up an education system for anesthesiology in medical schools.