Anesthesiologist as a perioperative physician, clinician, administrator, educator and researcher

  • Khalil Ullah Shibli Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist; Program Director ACGMEI Anesthesia Residency Program, Department of Anesthesiology, ICU & Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Sabina Shibli Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist, Pain and Perioperative Medicine; Associate Corporate Director, Acute Pain Services, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Keywords: Anesthesia, Anesthesiologist, Administration, Academics, Clinical practice, Research

Abstract

Anesthesia is an acute care specialty with a much wider scope in the current clinical practice. The addition of new clinical subspecialties puts additional pressure on already demanding workload with limited global anesthesia workforce. Doctors’ burnout reports and currently exhausted doctors struggling with their clinical duties during COVID-19 pandemic are ample evidence of it. Due to COVID-19 crisis, a lot of subspecialty crossover care is provided by the anesthetists, and they have to work outside their normal clinical comfort zones. Anesthesiologists have been entrusted with the responsibilities of perioperative physicians in the last two decades. An anesthesiologist has to adopt several roles in a healthcare institution, including ‘administrative’, ‘academic’, ‘clinical’ and ‘research’ attributes. An ideal anesthesiologist is expected to have a fine blend of all of these traits, though the proportion of each will vary according to the work environment and the personal choices and preferences.

Key words: Anesthesia; Anesthesiologist; Administration; Academics; Clinical practice; Research

Citation: Shibli KU, Shibli S. Anesthesiologist as a perioperative physician, clinician, administrator, educator and researcher. Anaesth. pain intensive care 2021;25(5):562-565; DOI: 10.35975/apic.v25i5.1649

Published
09-29-2021
How to Cite
Shibli, K., & Shibli, S. (2021). Anesthesiologist as a perioperative physician, clinician, administrator, educator and researcher. Anaesthesia, Pain & Intensive Care, 25(5), 562-565. https://doi.org/10.35975/apic.v25i5.1649
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