What is an 'anesthesiologist'?

What is an 'anesthesiologist'?

An anaesthesiologist is a physician who has finished medical school and gone on to specialize in anesthesia. An anaesthesiologist, after finishing four years of medical school, can do an internship in any speciality and then does a residency in anesthesia specifically which lasts two to three years. After that, there is additional post-graduate training if an anaesthesiologist wants to sub-specialize in one of the many separate sub-specialities in anesthesia. For example, some anaesthesiologists practice only obstetrical anesthesia or paediatric anesthesia or neural anesthesia. Others do addiction medicine. Others do neural anesthesia.