Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship

Fellows have the opportunity to train at two major healthcare institutions, UCI Medical Center and Long Beach Medical Center. Fellows will develop the skills and knowledge to become expert consultants and leaders in obstetric anesthesiology for future practice in a variety of healthcare settings.

As an integral member of the obstetric anesthesia team, fellows will train with board-certified and fellowship-trained anesthesiology faculty and work alongside maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) obstetricians, as well as neonatologists. Fellows will gain experience in comprehensive peripartum care and have an understanding on how Perioperative Surgical Home models and other multidisciplinary care models impact patient satisfaction, quality and healthcare costs.

Fellows will evaluate and apply evidence-based medicine and current expert guidelines to develop optimal plans for anesthesia care specific to the patient’s unique medical conditions. Obstetric anesthesiology fellows will have an opportunity to become proficient in the application of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the obstetric population. Fellows will acquire an expert understanding of relevant physiologic changes of pregnancy in relationship to complex pharmacology, mechanism of labor pain and multimodal analgesia in complex high-risk parturients.

Fellows will participate in structured didactics that consists of:

• Obstetric weekly conferences
• High-yield Lectures
• Journal Club
• Grand rounds

Formal educational sessions are constructed in a multidisciplinary setting to provide topics on the full spectrum of perioperative and peripartum care with lectures that are prepared by obstetric subspecialty clinicians. In addition, fellows are encouraged and expected to prepare and present cases or topics relevant to the subspeciality. Obstetric anesthesiology fellows will develop educator techniques that will enhance the active role in teaching and educating residents and medical students on the obstetric anesthesia service.

Fellows will be clinically assigned to cases in the operating room as an attending anesthesiologist. As a clinical instructor, fellows will gain experience as an independent anesthesiologist by providing anesthetic care to a diverse group of patients as well as the opportunity to supervise and teach residents and medically direct CRNAs in a team-based setting.

The fellowship clinical experiences will include equal clinical time between UCI Medical Center and Long Beach Medical Center, a neonatal rotation, an obstetric rotation and operating room assignments.

UCI Medical Center
The UCI Medical Center division of maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) is the main referral center in Orange County for complicated and uncommon high-risk parturient. As a major referral center, the region’s only Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center and Regional Burn Center, it presents unique opportunities for anesthesia care for a diverse patient population.

Long Beach Medical Center
The MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach is one of the largest neonatal intensive care units in California with greater than 6,000 deliveries per year and provides a wide range of primary and specialty care for expectant mothers and children of all ages.

Fellows are strongly encouraged to participate in scholarly activities and participate in quality improvement projects within the institution. The UCI Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care research division offers a wide range of opportunities where fellows can prepare research proposals with IRB approval and manuscripts for peer-review publication. There is ample opportunity for fellows to attend national conferences and are encouraged to submit abstracts and present cases.

2020-2021
Daniel Kim, MD

2019-2020
Andrew Mai, MD