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Onco-Anaesthesia — FNB reading list.

What a two-year FNB fellow in Onco-Anaesthesia reads, and what each title is for.

7Titles listed
4Read cover to cover
2 yrsFellowship length
400Marks in the exit exam
The fellowship

Onco-Anaesthesia at a glance

Peri-operative care for major cancer surgery, cytoreduction and HIPEC, and cancer pain.

DisciplineAnaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care
Length2 years, full-time at an NBEMS-accredited hospital
Entered fromDNB/MD Anaesthesia (Anaesthesiology)
EntranceFET, the NBEMS Fellowship Entrance Test — 100 questions in 105 minutes, Part-A from the feeder specialty and Part-B from this fellowship.
How this list is used

Reading for Onco-Anaesthesia

This is a young superspecialty and the two Springer volumes edited from AIIMS Delhi have become the working texts in most Indian onco-anaesthesia units, partly because the case mix they describe (head and neck resections, cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC, thoracic oncology, radical gynaecological work) is exactly what fellows anaesthetise. Miller's stays on the shelf as the general backbone for pharmacology and monitoring chapters that the specialty texts assume you already know. The onco-critical care volume is read during the ICU posting, where neutropenic sepsis and post-cytoreduction management dominate. Palliative and ERAS material is read because most fellowship rotations include a pain and palliative block and because ERAS pathways are being written into departmental protocols.

Titles are tagged core reading — the ones fellows finish — or reference, the ones they look things up in. Editions are given where the current edition is what you want to buy.

  1. Textbook of Onco-Anesthesiologycore readingRakesh Garg, Sushma Bhatnagar (eds.) · Springer · 1st edition (2021)The main structured read for the fellowship, organised by tumour site and matching the Indian onco-surgical case mix.
  2. Onco-critical Carecore readingVinod Kumar, Nishkarsh Gupta, Seema Mishra (eds.) · Springer · 1st edition (2022)Worked through during the ICU rotation for neutropenic sepsis, post-cytoreduction care and oncological emergencies.
  3. Perioperative Care of the Cancer Patientcore readingCarin A. Hagberg (ed.) · ElsevierUsed for the cancer-specific perioperative topics — chemotherapy and radiotherapy sequelae, difficult airway after neck irradiation, and anaesthetic technique and recurrence.
  4. Miller's Anesthesiacore readingMichael A. Gropper, Lars I. Eriksson, Lee A. Fleisher, Neal H. Cohen, Kate Leslie, Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju (eds.) · Elsevier · 10th editionThe general reference the specialty texts assume, used for pharmacology, monitoring and fluid chapters and for exit-exam theory answers.
  5. Problem Based Learning Discussions in Onco-Anesthesia and Onco-Critical CarereferenceNishkarsh Gupta, Rohini Dattatri, Vinod Kumar, Sushma Bhatnagar (eds.) · Springer · 1st edition (2024)Case-format discussions used for viva practice and for structuring departmental teaching sessions.
  6. Oxford Textbook of Palliative MedicinereferenceNathan I. Cherny, Marie T. Fallon, Stein Kaasa, Russell K. Portenoy, David C. Currow (eds.) · Oxford University Press · 6th editionThe reference for the palliative and cancer-pain block, particularly opioid rotation, symptom control and end-of-life discussions.
  7. ERAS Society GuidelinesreferenceERAS SocietyRead for the procedure-specific perioperative pathways that onco-surgical units are increasingly building their protocols around.

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The exit examination

What you are reading towards

The exit examination is the FEE - Fellowship Exit Examination, held after completion of the fellowship training. Theory: one paper of 100 marks (10 questions of 10 marks each) of three hours' duration. Practical: 300 marks, comprising clinical examination and viva voce. A candidate must obtain a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate across theory and practical (200 of 400) to qualify, with the theory paper itself to be passed at 50/100. Trainees must also appear in the formative assessment during training. Successful candidates are awarded the FNB (or FNB-PD) at the annual NBEMS convocation.

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Frequently asked

FNB Onco-Anaesthesia — questions

Which books do FNB Onco-Anaesthesia fellows read?

The 7 titles on this page, of which 4 are read cover to cover and the rest are kept as references. Most fellows own two or three and use the department copy for the others.

How long is the FNB in Onco-Anaesthesia?

2 years, full-time at an NBEMS-accredited hospital, followed by the Fellowship Exit Examination.

Which specialty do you enter FNB Onco-Anaesthesia from?

DNB/MD Anaesthesia (Anaesthesiology)

How is the FNB exit examination marked?

One theory paper of 100 marks with ten questions of ten marks each, and a 300-mark practical of clinical examination and viva. A candidate needs 50 per cent in aggregate across the two.

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