Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cedars-Sinai's Anesthesiology Residency is a four-year ACGME-accredited program embedded in a nationally-ranked (U.S. News Best Hospitals) academic tertiary/quaternary medical center in Los Angeles, offering high case volume and diversity within a single flagship institution rather than a multi-site consortium model. The program layers class-specific didactics, on-site simulation training, and structured written/oral/OSCE exam preparation onto clinical training, and explicitly supports resident participation in hospital-based and national scholarly work (QI projects, clinical/basic research, abstracts, posters, conference attendance). Faculty are described as representing nearly every major medical discipline with active research involvement, signaling a translational-medicine and academic-innovation orientation rather than a purely community-service model. The program frames itself around a "family-like," well-being-focused culture with open-door access to leadership, suggesting it values residents who will engage with both intensive clinical training and voluntary scholarly/QI activity in a high-acuity, single-campus academic environment.