Department: Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine

Code Name Description
ANES199 Undergraduate Research Allows for qualified students to undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANES202 Anesthesiology and Pathophysiologic Implications for the Perioperative Patient Provides participants a case-based review of organ physiology and an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiologic mechanisms during the perioperative period that affect outcome in surgical patients. All major organ systems will be discussed, and subje...
ANES203 Evaluating New Health Care Ventures: An Everyone Included Approach Class Objective: With ever-growing innovation in healthcare, how do investors evaluate and fund new ventures in one of the most diverse, operationally complex and regulated industries? Health care investment is unique in its dynamic evolution across...
ANES207 Medical Acupuncture Acupuncture is part of a comprehensive system of traditional Chinese Medicine developed over the past two millennia. This course reviews the history and theoretical basis of acupuncture for the treatment of various diseases as well as for the allevi...
ANES215 Current Controversies and Emerging Technologies in Applied Neuroscience In this survey course we invite speakers form neuroscience disciplines such as psychiatry, nerurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and more to discuss innovative work and recent controversies in the field. We center the discussion around critical re...
ANES235 Wilderness Leadership and Mentorship Skills for Medical and PA Students For MD/Master of Medicine wilderness pre-orientation trip (SWEAT) leaders and MSPA pre-orientation camping trip leaders. Training to engage with and prepare incoming first-year medical students and MSPA students for the rigors of their respective pro...
ANES280 Early Clinical Experience in Anesthesia Provides an observational experience as determined by the instructor and student. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANES281 Medicine in Movies: The Illness Experience Student lead:: This virtual seminar will introduce students to films, documentaries, and shorts with medical and bioethical themes. Viewings will encourage students to examine their own pre-conceptions and evaluate topics that elucidate illness as su...
ANES298 Development of Novel Strategy for Reducing Pediatric Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries Hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) most often develop in immobilized patients, with pressure on tissues that overlie bony prominences; the most vulnerable areas being the occiput, sacrum, and heels. HAPIs result in significant patient morbid...
ANES299 Directed Reading in Anesthesiology Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ANES300A Anesthesia Operating Room Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides an introduction to the perioperative anesthetic management of the surgical patient. In this clinical setting, and under close faculty and resident supervis...
ANES300B Anesthesia Operating Room Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Exposes students to the administration of anesthetics to surgical patients in the operating room. In this clinical setting, at the PAVAMC and under close faculty and resident supe...
ANES300C Anesthesia Operating Room Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship is an introductory course to anesthesiology at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Clerkship students will be active participants during anesthesia cases and per...
ANES300D Anesthesia Operating Room Clerkship VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Three weeks are spent learning theoretical and practical anesthetic fundamentals under the supervision of the anesthesiology staff at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa...
ANES300E Anesthesia Operating Room Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: The Anesthesia 300E clerkship exposes students to the fundamentals of anesthetic practice in a variety of clinical settings. Students will work one on one with private practitioner...
ANES300P Pediatric Anesthesia Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: An introduction to the perioperative and intraoperative anesthetic management of the pediatric patient in a clinical setting. Under close supervision by faculty, fellows and resid...
ANES302A Obstetrical Anesthesia Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Covers the following areas: a theoretical understanding of the physiology of normal pregnancy; pain mechanisms in labor; methods of analgesia and anesthesia with advantages and co...
ANES304A Chronic Pain Management Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: Relates the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and psychosocial components of pain to the understanding and care of patients with acute, chronic, or cancer pain. Students are inv...
ANES306A Critical Care Core Clerkship VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit. Students learn how to optimize care for the acutely ill patient and participate in the multidisciplinary app...
ANES306P Critical Care Core Clerkship VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: During this rotation, students provide care for critically ill children at Packard Children's Hospital. The rotation consists of a 4-week block in the NICU or the PICU. The Pedi...
ANES307A Cardiovascular Anesthesia Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors (Current COVID protocols at SOM restrict visiting students, subject to change). TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: A two-week clerkship that gives the student exposure to the principles and practice of cardiovascular...
ANES340A Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Designed to give medical students an in-depth exposure to critical care medicine focusing on advancement to the manger level for complex, critically ill patients. It offers student...
ANES340B Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit Clerkship VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital Medical-Surgical ICU Service. Students learn ho...
ANES370 Medical Scholars Research Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
ANES398A Special Clinical Elective in Anesthesia VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides an opportunity for a student in the clinical years to have an individualized clinical experience in Anesthesia. The student may elect to arrange a clerkship either with a...
ANES399 Graduate Research Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Problems related to metabolism, toxicity, and mechanisms of anesthesia; pharmacologic studies involving pain management; the genetic and molecular basis of hemodynamic insuff...
ANES70Q Critical Illness: Patients, Physicians, and Society Examines the various factors involved in shaping the critical care illness experience for three groups of people: the clinicians, the patients, and patients' families. Medical issues, economic forces and cost concerns, cultural biases, and communicat...
ANES72Q The Art of Medical Diagnosis The Art of Medical Diagnosis: Enhancing Observational Skills through the Study of Art is an interactive, multidisciplinary undergraduate course that explores various ways in which studying art increases critical observational skills vital for aspirin...
ANES74Q Mending a broken heart: The Anatomy, Physiology and Psychology of congenital heart disease Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defects and with improvements in surgical techniques and medical care these babies are living longer and healthier lives. Data indicates that approximately 1 million US children and 1.2millio...
NBIO215 Current Controversies and Emerging Technologies in Applied Neuroscience In this survey course we invite speakers form neuroscience disciplines such as psychiatry, nerurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and more to discuss innovative work and recent controversies in the field. We center the discussion around critical re...
NEPR215 Current Controversies and Emerging Technologies in Applied Neuroscience In this survey course we invite speakers form neuroscience disciplines such as psychiatry, nerurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and more to discuss innovative work and recent controversies in the field. We center the discussion around critical re...