CRNA Programs with No Competition

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Specializes in Neuro/Surgical ICU, CCRN, SCRN.

What are the CRNA schools that do not have competition with anesthesia residents for cases? Preferably looking at the west coast. 

Samuel Merritt has very, very few.  Some of there students may rotate at UC Davis, and there are residents there, but it is a huge, enormous facility and from an SRNA point of view, plenty to go around.  Samuel Merritt students also get to go to some amazing, truly amazing, all CRNA sites.  Some of the students get 150+ nerve blocks in a month at some of these sites.  Overall they have a very strong clinical experience, with minimal MD resident involvement.

Kaiser's program also has minimal resident involvement.  At all the Kaiser hospitals themselves, which are the overwhelming majority of the rotations. there are not residents, and there is no competition.

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