Clinical

University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview

This state-of-the-art, tertiary and acute care, 400+ bed hospital overlooks the Mississippi River on the campus of the University of Minnesota.  The Medical Center is the epicenter for routine and advanced clinical care, investigative and bench research, and graduate level education across the schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Veterinary Medicine. As a major referral center for specialized care, all medical and surgical subspecialties are represented, including solid organ and bone marrow transplantation. This is the main teaching hospital for the anesthesiology program with rotations in surgical and pediatric anesthesiology, critical care, and perioperative patient management.

University of Minnesota Medical Center– Riverside Campus

This is the sister organization for University of Minnesota Medical Center, and lies just across the Mississippi River from the main campus hospital.  This facility provides special experience with outpatient and ambulatory anesthesia, including regional experience.  In addition, residents receive supplemental experience with neonatal and obstetric anesthesia. 

Region's Hospital

Regions Hospital is a modern, full-service, Level-I trauma center providing outstanding medical and surgical care, with special programs in cardiac, women's care, geriatric services, digestive care, cancer, behavioral health, burn, and emergency care and trauma. Established in the 1800s, the hospital has served the Twin Cities and surrounding region for more than 130 years. 

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics – Minneapolis

This is a 193-bed pediatric specialty hospital where all anesthesiology faculty are fellowship trained and expert pediatric subspecialists.  This rotation contributes a focused clinical experience caring exclusively for pediatric patients.  No call is required during this rotation.

Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC)

HCMC is a busy 420-bed county medical center in Minneapolis specializing in acute care medicine and trauma. It is also used as the site for teaching the clinical base (PGY-1) year of anesthesiology, where interns get exposure to a wide variety of medical and surgical specialists.

In addition, the busy obstetric service (> 2,500 deliveries per year) at HCMC offers the anesthesiology residents the opportunity to learn anesthetic management of normal and high risk obstetric patients.  Resident rotations are dispersed over the CA-1, CA-2, and CA-3 years.

North Memorial Medical Center

Under the direction of Andrew Houlton, M.D., a graduate of the University of Minnesota program and former departmental faculty person, North Memorial Health Care provides a unique experience for residents in a full service, private practice health care system employing more than 4,200 people in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The rotation provides a mix of ambulatory care, cardiovascular services, oncology, perinatal services, rehabilitation, trauma, and emergency care.  Residents do not take call, and they usually self-select cases in which they will provide anesthesia care.

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin

Gundersen Lutheran system is an important site for anesthesiology residents to experience acute and chronic pain management with ABA-certified pain specialist, Dr. Ines Berger. Residents participate in the clinic where they complete comprehensive pain assessments, order diagnostic evaluations, and devise therapeutic algorithms.

While LaCrosse is our most distant teaching site, it is a well-recognized research and teaching facility and a Top 100 ranked hospital system.  The medical facility has a long tradition of teaching residents and medical students, student nurses, paramedics and other health professionals.  The GME office is under the direction of Dr. David Chestnut, one of the 12 directors of the ABA.

The city of LaCrosse is an interesting comparison to the major metropolitan intensity of Minneapolis and St. Paul.  La Crosse is midway between Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul, and has a surprising number of cultural, recreational, and economic opportunities for a metropolitan area with a population of 100,000. It is also one of the premier areas in the nation for outdoor activities. We invite you to explore the richness of the area and the unique opportunity to have "A Great Life outside the Hospital" when you do your rotation at Gundersen Lutheran.