Chief of anesthesiology?
Answer:
The Chief of an anesthesiology department is an administrative position.
Depending on the facility, he/she (my department chairman in residency was a woman) may have different roles.
The Chief/Chairman represents the department in the hospital, and has to go to a lot of meetings to make sure the department's needs are met. Some of the issues that affect anesthesia departments include anything related to how the OR is run, pharmacy and therapeutics issues (we have to have our drugs!), broader hospital policies (can we run postop epidurals on the floors?), nursing concerns (can the nurses change epidural pump settings? how are floor patients prepared for surgery?), labor and delivery issues (VBAC concerns, personnel and equipment needs, policies on that ward) and many more.
Within the department, the Chairman has to deal with personnel issues, scheduling, department meetings, JCAHO compliance, staff education, and so on.
In between all that stuff, the Chairman may actually administer anesthesia!
They would be in charge of giving morphine I.V.s in the emergency room before surgery.
Perhaps Pangolin, our favorite gas-passer on YA, will chime in. Each hospital has its own bylaws, and a small community hospital is going to be different from a large teaching hospital, but chiefs of departments generally just do the regular practice that the other doctors in the department do, plus some administrative duties. Work schedules, committee meetings, surveys, statistical analyses, and completely boring stuff like that.
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