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About the Process

We participate in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).  Upon receipt of your ERAS application, the Residency Selection Committee will review your credentials.  Interviews are scheduled by invitation, and will take place during the months of October through February.  UNC Anesthesiology receives hundreds of applications each year and unfortunately can only interview about 20 percent of all applicants.  Interviews are conducted Tuesday and Thursday throughout the interview season, with dinner and Chair's reception the preceding evening.  The department provides pre-interview evening's accommodations and meals with faculty and residents.  If you have any questions regarding the application process, please email UNCAnesthesiology-Residency@aims.unc.edu or contact the Resident Recruitment Coordinator at (919) 966-5136. Click here to visit the office of Graduate Medical Education.

Selection Process:

The UNC Anesthesiology Residency program offers positions to two types of candidates:

  • Those with no post-graduate training beyond medical school 
  • Those with one or more years of post-graduate education

Click here to view our Match Results for 2008

Those applicants with no post-graduate training beyond medical school must register through the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) for a post-graduate position at either the PGY-1 (Clinical Base Year) or PGY-2 (CA-1) level.  If accepted for a position at our PGY-1 level, the individual will participate in a broad-based clinical program of education during the first year of training.  Our clinical base year curriculum includes training in medicine, pediatrics, critical care and anesthesiology.  On successful completion of this initial year, the resident will proceed into the three years of formal clinical anesthesia training. Candidates accepted at the PGY-2 level through the National Residency Matching Program will he expected to complete an acceptable, broad-based clinical program prior to initiating the PGY-2 year.  Successful completion of the three years of clinical based anesthesia training qualifies the individual to apply to the American Board of Anesthesiology for entrance into the Board Exam process.

Once a candidate has been selected by the Residency Selection Committee for a formal interview, an interview date will be determined and the candidate will visit The University of North Carolina Department of Anesthesiology.

For more information on our Interview Process click here.

Selection Patterns:

We are looking for bright, inquisitive, highly motivated physicians. We evaluate each candidate on his or her individual merits. Personal qualifications, potential, and expressed desire to train at The University of North Carolina influence your decisions more heavily than the reputations of schools attended. The average resident in our program is outgoing, fully integrated into the anesthesia care team, adept at problem solving, and industrious. He or she enjoys intellectual challenges and can comfortably enter discussions in which sharply different views are being expressed. Our residents pursue interests outside medicine and remain well-rounded individuals during the demanding years of training.