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Mission Statement

Our mission here at the Department of Anesthesiology at SUNY Downstate is to provide education, training, and experience in an atmosphere of mutual respect among instructors and residents..  We seek to provide an environment that promotes the acquisition of the knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, and attitudes essential to the practice of anesthesiology.
 
The primary goal of the residency training program in Anesthesiology is to provide an organized education program with guidance and supervision of the resident, facilitating the resident's professional and personal development while ensuring safe and appropriate care for patients.  Throughout the course of training, our residents assume progressively greater responsibility, consistent with individual growth in clinical experience, knowledge and skill. 
 
In addition to clinical skills and medical knowledge, the program emphasizes interpersonal skills, effective communication, and professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement, and systems-based practice.  The objectives of the residency program are to ensure that its residents, by the time they graduate, assume responsibility and act responsibly and with integrity; demonstrate a commitment to excellence and ethical  principles of clinical care, including confidentiality of patient information, informed consent, and business practices; demonstrate respect and regard for the needs of patients and society that supersedes self-interest; and work effectively as a member of a health care team or other professional group.  By the end of residency training, all graduating residents must demonstrate sufficient professional ability to practice competently and independently.

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