Anesthesiology Residency
Program Director
Jonathan Easterwood, D.O.
Number of total slots approved
(including OGME 1) 4
Didactis
There are three educational offerings weekly—Critical Care Conference, Miller's Club and Journal Club. There are additional lectures held at least twice daily (see insert of monthly lecture schedule).
Procedures
There are approximately 500 cases per month. These include pain, OB, orthopedic, ENT, general surgery, urology cases and trauma cases. Cardiac anesthesia and critical pediatric cases are provided at an affiliate hospital. These rotations last approximately 5 to 6 months and are completed in the third and fourth year of training. Additional out rotations can be scheduled for trauma, pain, high risk OB and critical care.
Call
Call involves approximately every third night and weekend.
Special Interest
All residents have performed well on in-service exams and always place in the upper 25% of all programs.
Greg Hon, NMM Resident:
I went to medical school here in Kirksville for a few years and so I was familiar and impressed with the program and I knew the attendings and the styles of manipulation that they use. They're all good people and they're quality was great so that attracted me a lot. I knew the program I was going to be working with was sound and stable and that I'd get a good education in whatever I wanted to go into, whether I wanted to go into the academic track and teach a lot or if I wanted to go straight into private practice. I knew it would leave me a lot of options.
I believe our program here is one of the, if not the strongest one, especially in terms of manipulation and the exposure we get as students, this is one of the programs that we have the greatest amount of attendings all in one spot with a high level of training. A lot of the other programs may only have one or two attendings that you learn the majority of your manipulation skills from. This is one of the few programs where they have seven. Also, I think the didactic program we have here is pretty strong we have daily lectures, twice a day, a lot stronger than a lot of the other hospitals where I have rotated.
I grew up in Florida, and I've had a good experience, here in Kirksville, I enjoyed the two years I had here in medical school. It's a nice, small, quiet town and it has the types of things that I like to do here. There's lots of outdoor sport opportunities, there's intramural sports, which is something I like to do a lot. So in terms of free time there's lots of extra curricular activities I was interested in.
Northeast is obviously a smaller community type hospital so if you're looking for a large area where they're seeing bizarre pathology this might not be a good fit; but if you're looking for a small tight knit community hospital, where everyone's treated like family then this is a good place to be.