Three year residency produces equivalent of competent middle grade registrar

EDITOR,--Geoffrey N Morris is fortunate in experiencing what may be the best training programme for anaesthetic residents provided in the United States.1 We have worked in a similar capacity to him in Texas and Colorado and have spoken to many other British anaesthetists who have worked elsewhere in the United States. Our assessment of the training received during the three years of an anaesthetic residency is that it can produce a practitioner equivalent to a safe, competent middle grade registrar in the British system. …