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November 19, 2009

Anesthesiology Ranks High in CNN Money’s Best US Job List

Filed under: Great News! — Tags: , , — waynegrabein @ 7:15 pm

CNN Money and Payscale ranked Anesthesiology 11th in their new 2009 Best Jobs in America.  Careers were ranked according to median salaries, job opportunities in the next ten years, and quality of life.   Nurse anesthesiologists were ranked 15th overall.

According to the article anesthesiologists take home a median salary of $292,000 per annum, while nurse anesthesiologists earn $157,000 a year, with the top pay being $214,000. The top pay for Anesthesiologists were recorded at slightly more than $400,000.  (Note that median salary was determined for an experienced worker with at least 2-7 years in the field.)

According to the study, the future of the profession looks very bright. Job ads for anesthesiologists over the 6 months leading up to August 2009 increased by 70%, while there are an estimated 23,000 jobs currently available!  Approximately 19,000 nurse anesthesiology jobs waits to be filled.  Very encouraging, if seen in against the backdrop of a struggling US economy.

In terms of Quality of Life, the evaluators looked at factors like personal job satisfaction, job security, future industry growth, the benefit to society, and the stress levels involved.  As you can guess, Anesthesiology ranked low in the stress rating, as death is a possibility if the slightest miscalculation is made.  Quoted in the article, Roger Moore, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said, “Anesthesiologists get patients safely and intact through operations while surgeons do things that would otherwise kill them.”

Nurse anesthesiologist has involvement with the patient not only during the operation, but afterwards, as they monitor their health post-surgery.  According to Wikepedia they administer anesthesia approximately 32 millions times/annum in the US.  Their role is crucial.

The bottom line:  This is a great field with great prospects!  All that is left for you is to get Board Certified.  Board Stiff Live and Board Stiff CRNA will help you achieve that hurdle.  See our website for dates of our next workshop.

July 28, 2009

BSL’s Own Dr. Chris Gallagher Wins Prestigious Teaching Award

Filed under: Great News! — admin @ 6:26 am

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Chris Gallagher, one of the three founders of Board Stiff Live® Anesthesia Oral and Written Board Review Courses, was awarded a 2008 Teaching Recognition Award for Achievement in Education from the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS). This award is given to those who have made demonstrated and extraordinary contributions to education.

The award is not given out regularly every year; in fact, it is only awarded when the IARS feels that an educator has truly met the criteria for the award. In 2008, they awarded two of these prestigious honors, one of which went to Dr. Gallagher. The co-winners (which included Dr. Lydia Conley of Baylor University), were presented their awards and participated in a program at the 2009 IARS Annual Meeting, which was held in San Diego in March.

Dr. Gallagher was honored and thrilled to learn he was to receive this award. It became, in fact, even more meaningful to him when he learned what had led the judges to choose him.

“I was curious as to what tipped them toward me,” says Dr. Gallagher. “So I asked one of the judges: ‘Was it the books I wrote?’ and he said, ‘The biggest influence on our decision was the testimonials of the fellows, residents, and medical students you had taught.’

“So it was the one-on-one teaching that did it, and that was really touching for me.”

In addition to his work with Board Stiff Live®, Dr. Gallagher is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center. Per an announcement about the award issued by the institution:

As Residency Program Director in Anesthesiology at SBUMC, Dr. Gallagher has enhanced education by developing interactive training, built board review courses based on hundreds of questions he devised, and created many clinical simulation training modules from which students gain hands-on knowledge of diseases and conditions in emergency and operating room scenarios.

“I try to make all lessons fun, with humor. I just put myself in the shoes of my residents and fellows…and start teaching,” says Dr. Gallagher.

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