Adopting the American anesthesia oral examination in China: value and roadblocks

Jing Zhao; Weifeng Yu; Chuanyao Tong; Zhongcong Xie; Jianzhong Sun; Shao Feng Zhou; Hong Liu; Lingzhong Meng

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2015.12.047

Adopting the American anesthesia oral examination in China: value and roadblocks

J Clin Anesth. 2016 May:30:42-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2015.12.047. Epub 2016 Feb 20.

Authors

Jing Zhao¹, Weifeng Yu², Chuanyao Tong³, Zhongcong Xie⁴, Jianzhong Sun⁵, Shao Feng Zhou⁶, Hong Liu⁷, Lingzhong Meng⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Anesthesiology, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China; Department of Anesthesiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁴ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁸ Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 27041262
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2015.12.047

Abstract

The quality and standardized training and certification of young physicians is key to the quality of health care in the future. In contrast to the American system, there is no nationwide and standardized oral examination in the training and certification process for anesthesiologists in China. The adoptability of the American anesthesia oral examination in China, as well as potential roadblocks, has not been specifically discussed. In this commentary, we share our experience of introducing the American oral examination to an audience of Chinese anesthesiologists and propose a pragmatic approach for adopting the anesthesia oral examination in China. This initiative has the potential to reform the current anesthesia training and certification process and improve the quality of anesthetic care in China.

Keywords: ABA oral examination; Adoption in China; Anesthesia training and certification; Pragmatic approach; Roadblocks; Value.

MeSH terms

Anesthesiology / education*
Anesthesiology / standards
Certification*
China
Clinical Competence
Educational Measurement / methods*
Humans
Quality of Health Care
United States