Welcome to GW's Residency Program in Anesthesiology!
If you're looking for a close-knit community where you'll receive top-notch training in the heart of a vibrant city, then you’ve come to the right program. Residency anywhere is hard work—work that will transform you from a learner to a clinician. If your journey is with us, mentorship and close friendships from our faculty and co-residents alike will accelerate your growth.
Our residents are exceptionally well prepared for independent practice upon graduation. Whether your next path is fellowship training, academia, or private practice, you will leave GW ready and confident. Our current CA-3 residents have matched at their first-choice fellowship institutions, accepted faculty positions in academic departments or are signing with coveted private practice groups. Networking with recent graduates and our well-connected faculty opens any anesthesiology career path or geographic area to our graduating residents.
Major strengths of our program include the complexity of cases, high patient volume, and graduated independence in clinical practice. GW is a Level 1 trauma center and a SOAP Center of Excellence for the Obstetric Anesthesiology Department. There is no shortage of complex cases that will challenge you at GW. As a multidisciplinary, tertiary care hospital GW provides our residents with a diverse case load and our anesthesia residents are often directly involved in the care of our institution's sickest patients. Additionally, due to our heavy trauma and outpatient orthopedic service, our anesthesia residents get early exposure to regional anesthesia and our acute pain service.
No surgery or procedure is “attending only” and our attending anesthesiologists allow residents the valuable experience of troubleshooting and refining their anesthetic technique in a safe, supervised manner. Though CA-1 year begins with close one-on-one apprenticeship, residents are quickly given increasing autonomy. It is a seamlessly executed model of earned independence while maintaining safety as our number one priority. Our residents are well prepared because of their collegial faculty relationships in the care of the most complex patients spanning the full breadth of modern surgery.
At GW, your time at the hospital will be very productive. Every graduate easily exceeds all ACGME case minimums. Our residents receive didactic education, simulation training, and present regularly at subspecialty journal clubs and departmental meetings. All of this is accomplished with manageable work hours that range from 50-60 hours a week with at least 2 weekends off a month, and 4 weeks off per year.
There is much to do with your time outside of work! While DC is known nationally for its museums, history and sports teams, we love DC's many diverse and very walkable neighborhoods filled with natural and architectural beauty as well as wonderful coffee shops, bars and restaurants. There seems to always be something fun going on in the DMV that our residents are taking advantage of!
Thank you again for your interest in our program and we look forward to meeting you!
Anastazia Gilman-Hood, MD & Erica Chemtob, MD
Chief Residents, 2025-2026