Med school for experienced CRNA?

There aren't really any shortcuts to med school that I'm aware of...

If your wife is satisfied in her career, she may benefit more from working on her ability to stand up to disrespectful colleagues. I don't see making the investment of med school as being a problem solver. You wife may benefit more from boosting her ability to deal with difficult people. Just my opinion. Good luck with the decision

No. None of them will. It will look good on her application, but she'll still have to do 4 years med school with a 3 year anesthesiology residency, during which she will rack up $300,000 in debt...likely $500,000 with interest. But at the end of it all, she'll be an MDA. Doing the exact same work she does now, making maybe $50,000-$70,000 more per year. Worth it? From a financial standpoint, no way.

Best bet, especially since she enjoys her present job, would be just to avoid toxic people. Work at a teaching facility that has an anesthesiology fellowship attached to it so that the people doing most of the work are still children MD's that don't know anything and are only making like $52,000 per year. Then she can seem like the experienced person that actually knows something about anesthesia.

There are no shortcuts to becoming an anesthesiologist, not even for a nurse anesthetist. 4 years of medical school followed by 1 year of internship and 3 years of residency. Add another year on to that if you want to complete a fellowship.

If your wife is truly unhappy she should find another practice. There are plenty of jobs available working independently or in an ACT model.

Even in Illinois, it doesn't have be an anesthesiologist... it can be any MD. She could always work in another facility... in a dental office, a CRNA can supply the service and have the dentist sign off the paperwork.

Sorry about what your wife is going through. I known many nurses ( CRNA,NP,MSN) who have transitioned to become MD's here in the united states and especially here in Illinois.

First option, she could decide to go through regular path by applying to schools of medicine here in the country. Since, she already have taken a lot of science classes, and have at least a BSN, she can start the process by talking to counselor in many of these schools, to see what are her options.

The second path that many inspiring doctors with careers and families do is to contact school outside the country such as in the caribean. I know quite a few americains who became MD's using this path. You live and work here, but study outside.

Here is one particular school that I can recommand taht is worth of checking is the school of medicine at university of health sciences antigua.

Whatever your wife decide, make certain that the family can endure and afford it.

I hope this help

Your wife needs to looking into other practice settings and/or groups. The opt-out is on CMS patients only, it has nothing to do with private insurance.

This post is ironic. All of the MD-Anesthesia where I work in the PACU wish they had gone to CRNA school instead of med school.

They even told their children not to bother going to med school-be a nurse anesthesist instead.