Boston University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Boston Medical Center's anesthesiology residency is an academic, safety-net program built around the largest safety-net hospital in New England, exposing residents to a high-acuity, medically complex patient population including refugees, transgender patients, and those with substance use disorder. The curriculum is notably structured: a surgery-based clinical base year co-administered with the Boston VA Healthcare System, followed by CA-years that allow residents to frontload subspecialty rotations to prepare for fellowship applications, alongside a resident-run PATC and pediatric rotations at Boston Children's Hospital. Scholarly activity is institutionally supported through a dedicated year-long research seminar, a multimedia production lab that has placed resident-authored videos in NEJM, and consistent faculty-resident co-authorship on clinical topics tied to the hospital's underserved population (transgender perioperative care, substance use, COVID-19 critical care). Graduates pursue competitive fellowships, academic faculty positions, and private practice, indicating the program values residents who can thrive amid high disease burden and contribute to publication-oriented scholarly output while gaining progressively autonomous clinical responsibility.