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Anesthesia Education: Trends and Context

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This chapter will outline the unique context of training and maintaining skills in the complex domain of anesthesia as a medical specialty. It will include how clinical skills, communication, decision-making, teamwork, and inter-professional care have traditionally been taught and the challenge of education in this specialty. The chapter will also cover how recent trends in clinical practice have affected the mode of delivery of education including the role of new technologies in delivering these programs. This chapter will focus on the specialty of anesthesia in Australia and New Zealand, with some reference to the practice of anesthesia in the UK.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    S. D. Marshall

  2. School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

    M. C. Turner

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  1. Monash University, School of Clinical Sciences, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Debra Nestel

  2. King’s College London, London, UK

    Gabriel Reedy

  3. La Trobe University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Lisa McKenna

  4. Bond University, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

    Suzanne Gough

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Marshall, S.D., Turner, M.C. (2023). Anesthesia Education: Trends and Context. In: Nestel, D., Reedy, G., McKenna, L., Gough, S. (eds) Clinical Education for the Health Professions. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3344-0_8

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