Research Article
A Comprehensive Curriculum of The History of Regional Anesthesia
Gustavo Angaramo, James Savage,
David Arcella and Manisha S. Desai
Correspondence Address :
Manisha Desai
Department of Anesthesiology
UMass Memorial
Health Care, 55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA
01655, USA
Received on: August 30, 2019, Accepted on: September 12, 2019, Published on: September 18, 2019
Citation: Gustavo Angaramo, James Savage, David Arcella, Manisha S. Desai (2019). A Comprehensive Curriculum of The History of Regional Anesthesia
Copyright: 2019 Manisha Desai S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The study of the past with regards to medical history has been an underemphasized component of the medical school curriculum for several reasons.
These have included the lack of direct or immediate clinical impact, the emergence of new disciplines such as medical ethics, expansion of the existing knowledge base, as well as a lack of research grants and funding. The curriculum in graduate medical education struggles to cope with the explosion of new information related to basic and applied sciences. The elimination of questions related to history in certifying examinations could be considered a fatal blow. This study explored the teaching of history of regional anesthesia (HORA) and proposes a curriculum for such education.
A formal curriculum has not been described in published literature, even the latest guidelines for fellowship training in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine
published by ASRA in 2015 did not include a curriculum to teach HORA. We propose a
curriculum related to a variety of topics that would provide useful information and enrich
the educational experience of trainees. It is suggested that this briefly formatted review of HORA could be used as a starting point for teaching and research to place major events of this specialty in an historical context.