There are three components to the PGY1 Foundations Program:

 1. Peer-to-peer learning sessions with a faculty facilitator. Each session is based on the Morgan & Mikhail Clinical Anesthesiology textbook 7th edition.

2. Junior Approaches to Anesthesia (JAA) Decision Making. The faculty facilitator will lead interactive sessions allowing residents to practice verbalizing their answers to clinical scenarios. Over the year, they will focus on answering how they would assess a patient, what are their considerations, what are their goals, how can they optimize the situation, and what is their anesthetic plan.

3. Creating differential diagnoses and reviewing quick approaches to anesthesia emergencies.

The PGY2-3 Core Program is a two-year curriculum split into 19 sections based on the National Curriculum. Each section varies from 4-8 weeks. There is a self-study and pre-test at the start of each section. The last week of each section is a Decision Making session and post-test.

There are two components to the PGY2-3 Core Program:

 1. Faculty and resident lectures as based on the National Curriculum with topics chosen that is best for group teaching as opposed to self-study.

2. Senior Approaches to Anesthesia Decision Making. Advancing the complexity and bringing together the components of the JAA sessions, one resident is assigned to answer an oral exam question allowing them to practice this skill. They are given the opening stem in advance and all questions will be pertinent to the section that they are currently doing, e.g. a question on aortic stenosis while in their Cardiac section.

All presenters at AHD, faculty or residents, are asked to create 3 MCQs for the monthly quiz (PGY1s) or post-section test (PGY2-3s).

Here is a guide from the Royal College on how to write MCQs.

In addition, an answer key is required since these are low stakes quizzes and tests and residents will receive the answers afterwards.

Answer keys should explain why each response option is correct or incorrect and provide any references.