M.D. (Anaesthesiology)

Doctor of Medicine in Anesthesiology

M.D. Anaesthesiology or Doctor of Medicine in Anaesthesiology is a postgraduate Anaesthesia course. Anaesthesiology focuses on utilization of drugs that minimize pain by causing insensibility. Under this degree, students learn about areas such as ambulatory anaesthesia, cardiothoracic anaesthesiology, paediatric anaesthesiology, neuro-anaesthesia, obstetrical anaesthesiology and pain management. Anaesthesia controls pain during surgery or other medical procedures. It includes using medicines, and sometimes closes monitoring, to keep you comfortable. It can also help control breathing, blood pressure, blood flow, and heart rate and rhythm when needed. Some of the types of Anaesthesia are local anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia and general anaesthesia. The duration of the course is two years and it is an important and job orienting in nature.

M.D. Anaesthesiology Eligibility 

• Aspiring candidates should have completed an M.B.B.S. degree with minimum 50% marks
• Some of the very reputed institutes conduct an entrance examination for admission.

M.D. Anaesthesiology Syllabus

Syllabus of Anaesthesiology as prescribed by various Universities and Colleges.

M.D. Anaesthesiology Colleges

• SRM Institute of Science and Technology - Kattankulathur, Kanchipuram
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences - AIIMS Delhi, New Delhi
• University of Delhi - DU, Delhi

M.D. Anaesthesiology Course Suitability

• M.D. Anaesthesiology is suitable for those who want to deliver services in the preoperative setting, pain management and critical care, excellence in the education of medical students, residents and fellows and to contribute to the specialty of anaesthesiology through our commitment to education, research, and scholarly activities care good match for it.
• They should be able to perform pre-operative examinations of patients to determine appropriate anaesthetic and sedation in concurrence with Internal Medicine Specialists and Surgeons.
• They should be good in-patient care, education, research, faculty development and the advancement of the specialty of anaesthesiology.
• Those who want to become teacher/lecturer and want to have further higher studies also suitable for it.

How is M.D. Anaesthesiology Course Beneficial?

• M.D. Anaesthesiology is beneficial for further higher studies such as Ph.D. etc. as it provides good and solid base for them.
• It also teaches the students to provide direct medical care to patients requiring general or local anaesthesia for surgical, diagnostic and other procedures such as prevention of pain and maintenance of body function.
• They can have jobs relating to administering local, regional and general anaesthetics using a variety of methods such as inhalational and intravenous administration.
• They can teach in schools both on government and private basis as teachers and after passing the UGC-NET exam they can go for lecturer jobs in colleges and universities.

M.D. Anaesthesiology Employment Areas

• Colleges & Universities
• Content Writing (medical)
• Hospitals
• Military Services
• Private Clinics

M.D. Anaesthesiology Job Types

• Anaesthetist
• Asst. Professor/Lecturer
• Consultant
• Critical Care Specialist
• Registrar
• Senior Registrar