Student Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the M.S.A. Program will be able to:

1. Communicate Effectively
• Demonstrate good listening, writing and verbal communication skills
• Professionally interact with patients, families and health care team members
• Use health information technology
2. Demonstrate competency in clinical anesthesia skills under the direction of an anesthesiologist
• Obtain a comprehensive patient history, perform relevant elements of a physical exam
• Pre test and calibrate anesthesia delivery systems and obtain and interpret information from the systems and monitors
• Apply and interpret routine and advanced monitoring modalities
• Establish basic and advanced airway interventions, including intubation of the trachea and performing ventilatory support
• Administer induction agents, maintain and alter anesthesia levels, administer adjunctive treatments and provide continuity of anesthetic care in the post-operative period
• perform epidural anesthetic procedures, spinal anesthetic procedures, and other regional anesthetic techniques
• Administer blood, blood products, and supportive fluids
• Provide assistance to cardiopulmonary resuscitation team in response to a life-threatening situation
3. Use basic science in the practice of anesthetic care
• Explain a multi-system anesthesia related problem in terms of pathogenesis, mechanisms of system-to-system interactions andpotential complications
• Exhibit clinical decision analysis that weighs the pros and cons of proposed interventions, taking into consideration such factors as drug-drug interactions and the trade-off of proposed drug interventions in the context of multi-system problems
4. Demonstrate competency in lifelong learning
• Explore new opportunities for intellectual growth and professional enlightenment
• Attend continuing education courses
• Recognize his/her limits of knowledge and experience
• Able to draw valid conclusions after weight evidence, facts, and ideas
5. Posses self-awareness, self-care, personal growth and professional behavior
• Cope with stress during clinical situations
• Posses appropriate personal values and beliefs relevant to his/her practice of anesthesia care
• Display professional behavior in all functions: respect, compassion and empathy, altruism, honesty, responsibility, and excellence
• Display effective leadership and teamwork
• Resolve potential conflicts between his/her own needs and the legitimate needs of his/her patients or health care team members
• Seek opportunities to learn, demonstrate lifelong learning skills, and endeavors to excel in scholarship
6. Incorporate diversity and the social and community contexts of health care
   • Identify and propose solutions for non-biological factors that influence health, disease, disability and access to care
   • Advocate for better health for the patients and the community
   • Demonstrate knowledge of practice management, utilization review, quality improvement and economic and cultural issues in health care
7. Demonstrate moral reasoning and ethical judgment
• Identify patient care and health policy ethical issues and choices in his or her own clinical experience
• Select and ethically defend a course of action
8. Problem Solving
• Display competence in advanced clinical problem solving using a comprehensive knowledge base
• Effectively utilize a team approach in solving clinical problems

Program Requirements

The MSA Program is a nationally accredited 27-month (7 semester) program. Students enrolled in the program must complete the required courses and 2000 clinical hours (obtained during Anesthesia Clinical Experience courses).

Required Courses:	Credit Hours
Semester 1(January to May)	(18.5 credit hours)
ANESTH 5575 – Pharmacology for Anesthesiologist Assistants I	3
ANESTH 5505 -  Anatomy for Anesthesiologist Assistants	3
ANESTH 5540 – Patient Monitoring and Instrumentation	2
ANESTH 5556 – Physiology for Anesthesiologist Assistants I	3
ANESTH 5560 – Introduction to Anesthesia	2
ANESTH 5561 – Orientation to Clinical Experience and Model-based Simulation	4
ANESTH 5580 – Fundamentals of Anesthetic Sciences I	1
ANESTH 5518 – Professionalism for Anesthesiologist Assistants I	0.5
Semester 2 (May to August)	(14.5 credit hours)
ANESTH 5558 – Anesthesia and Coexisting Disease I	2
ANESTH 5576 – Pharmacology for Anesthesiologist Assistants II	2
ANESTH 5563 – Anesthesia Clinical Experience I	4
ANESTH 5585 – Physiological Model-based Simulation I	2
ANESTH 5541 – Methods of Anesthesia I	2
ANESTH 5503 – Physics for Anesthesiologist Assistants	1
ANESTH 5581 – Fundamentals of Anesthetic Sciences II	1
ANESTH 5528 – Professionalism for Anesthesiologist Assistants I	0.5
Semester 3 (August to December)	(19.5 credit hours)
ANESTH 5557 - Physiology for Anesthesiologist Assistants II	3
ANESTH 5559 - Anesthesia and Coexisting Disease II	2
ANESTH 5565 – Anesthesia Clinical Experience II	8
ANESTH 5577 – Methods of Anesthesia II	2
ANESTH 5562 – Anesthesia Clinical Correlation I	1
ANESTH 5582 – Fundamentals of Anesthetic Sciences III	1
ANESTH 5586 – Physiological Model-based Simulation II	2
ANESTH 5538 – Professionalism for Anesthesiologist Assistants I	0.5
Semester 4(January to May)	(17 credit hours)
ANESTH 5564 – Anesthesia Clinical Correlation II	1
ANESTH 5567 – Anesthesia Clinical Experience III	16
Semester 5 (May to August)	(12 credit hours)
ANESTH 5569 – Anesthesia Clinical Experience IV	12
Semester 6 ( August to December)	(17 credit hours)
ANESTH 5568 – Anesthesia Clinical Correlation III	1
ANESTH 5571 – Anesthesia Clinical Experience V	16
Semester 7 (January to May)	(17 credit hours)
ANESTH 5570 – Anesthesia Clinical Correlation IV	1
ANESTH 5573 – Anesthesia Clinical Experience VI	16
Total program credit hours	115.5

Graduation Requirements:

• A 3.0 grade point average
• Successful completion of 115.5 credit hours of required coursework
• Successful completion of a minimum of 2000 clinical hours experiential education
 
The Master of Science in Anesthesia Program will graduate highly skilled and competent Anesthesiologist Assistants (AAs).  AA’s are physician extenders licensed to work as anesthetists under the supervision of anesthesiologists.  AA’s provide various services in hospitals, surgery centers, and other health care environments
 
For application deadline and other information regarding the 27 month program and the AA profession please go to the UMKC MSA program website: www.med.umkc.edu/msa