Graduate Outcomes

The Department of Anesthesiology is a part of the Joe R. Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine and contributes to the University’s mission to strive for excellence in clinical care, research, and medical education. Our graduates are prepared, whether they choose to join private practice groups, academic departments, or enter fellowships throughout the country. Large alumni network throughout US:

2024 Alumni Survey revealed:

  • 90% of graduates strongly agreed that our program “prepared them for the independent practice of anesthesiology.”
  • 94% of graduates strongly agreed that they felt they could “manage difficult cases involving ill patients.”
  • 90% of graduates strongly agreed that their “practice group is able to rely on them to get cases done safely and effectively.”

Roughly 50-60% enter practice (private or academic) out of residency training. The rest pursue fellowships – Recent matches below:

  • Pain Medicine – UT Health San Antonio, Vanderbilt, Mayo Clinic, UVA, University of Utah
  • Acute Pain and Regional – University of Utah, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt
  • Obstetric – University of Colorado
  • Pediatrics – Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Texas Children’s Hospital
  • Cardiothoracic – Cleveland Clinic, Texas Heart Institute, Westchester Medical Center
  • Critical Care – UT Health San Antonio, University of Alabama, Vanderbilt, Mayo Clinic
  • Combined Critical Care/Cardiothoracic Fellowship – Duke University

Contact us

aneseducation@uthscsa.edu
210-567-4509

Message from the Program Director

Crystal Manohar, MD,MBA,FASA

My name is Crystal Manohar, and I am the Residency Program Director for the Department of Anesthesiology.  The program in San Antonio is a categorical anesthesiology residency that prides itself on our clinical and educational experience.  Our program is four years in duration, which includes a transitional internship where our PGY-1 residents rotate through a multitude of specialties, including general and vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, ENT, emergency medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonary, critical care, pain medicine, preoperative anesthesia assessment and, of course, anesthesiology. Our final month of the PGY-1 year is our “Anesthesiology Boot Camp”, which is designed to provide an early intensive clinical exposure paired with salient didactics and workshops to optimally prepare our incoming CA-1s for the remaining three years of their residency.

The clinical curriculum is designed to provide a strong fund of knowledge and clinical exposure coupled with increasing levels of autonomy.  Our CA-1 residents typically focus on “bread-and-butter” general anesthesia both at University Hospital and the Audie Murphy VA Hospital ORs, with subspecialties (neuro, pediatric, regional anesthesia/acute pain, and obstetric anesthesia) exposure introduced halfway through the year.  This forms the strong foundation from which to learn the numerous facets of anesthesiology.  Our CA-2 residents become heavily involved in the subspecialties of anesthesiology, including critical care, cardiothoracic, obstetric, pediatric, and hepatobiliary anesthesia and acute and chronic pain.

The CA-3 year is spent perfecting the art and practice of anesthesiology, with focus on supervision of more junior residents and more advanced cases in the ORs and subspecialties. There is an emphasis on advanced airway (ENT, OMS, bronchoscopy) and non-operating room anesthesia (NORA).  CA-3 residents also spend one- month participating in a community private practice rotation with the opportunity to select cases pertinent to their future practice and hone their anesthesia skills.  CA-3 residents are also granted one month of elective time which has been used for POCUS/TEE skills, research, global health, obstetric, APS/regional anesthesia and critical care rotations.  Senior residents also serve as junior faculty on trauma call and have the formative experience of leading the call team, serving as perioperative consultants to triage and optimize care, first responders to airway emergencies throughout the hospital and teach their junior residents.

Our goal is to train excellent anesthesiologists and perioperative consultants who are clinically proficient and academically prepared to become board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology.  We want our graduates to not only succeed clinically, but also as leaders in their institutions/hospital systems and at state and national levels.  To this end, we emphasize opportunities for leadership skill building to include the optional Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, the Clinical Educator Track (CET) for physicians interested in pursuing academic medicine, teaching opportunities through the Long School of Medicine and Anesthesia Interest Group, quality improvement and patient safety education and the ability to participate in research, presentations and publications during the resident training years.  Along with our robust clinical exposure and didactics, with these leadership skills, our graduates will become compelling physician leaders who innovate and advance our specialty for years to come!

Sincerely,
Crystal Manohar, MD,MBA,FASA
Residency Program Director