Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cleveland Clinic's Anesthesiology Residency is a quaternary-referral, academically intensive program built around an integrated Clinical Base Year that anesthesiology faculty directly control, followed by CA1-3 training saturated with subspecialty complexity - cardiac/thoracic anesthesia, transplant anesthesia (200+ liver transplants annually), a 30-bed SICU and 95-bed CVICU run by the department, advanced neuro-anesthesia in new dedicated ORs, and one of the largest chronic pain practices in the country. Research is structurally embedded but not obligatory beyond a graduation minimum (one publication or presented abstract), with a resident research coordinator infrastructure, access to a 12-million-case MPOG outcomes database, and up to six months of CA-3 dedicated research time, indicating a program that expects scholarly engagement without demanding a physician-scientist trajectory. The elective structure - community-practice rotations at regional hospitals, international electives (London, Abu Dhabi), and trauma exposure at Akron General - alongside heavy TEE/POCUS and subspecialty fellowship-track exposure signals a program producing graduates for competitive fellowships (cardiac, critical care, pediatric, pain) as much as for high-acuity academic or community consultant practice. The program values residents who can handle sustained clinical intensity and complexity from day one and who will engage voluntarily with research, education, and simulation-based learning infrastructure rather than needing to be pushed toward scholarly output.