Benefits for Anesthesia Fellows & Residents

Benefits and Compensation

The Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine residency and fellowship programs offer a wide range of benefits, including:

iPads for all new trainees
malpractice insurance coverage
on-call meal cards
a variety of textbooks

short and long-term disability insurance
a generous educational allowance

The programs also make available the opportunity to purchase several types of health, dental and life insurance. Each fellow and resident is allotted 20 days of vacation along with 5 days to attend professional conferences. In addition, the hospital has a liberal leave of absence policy for employees (fellows and residents) who are new parents, require medical leave, or need to care for a seriously ill family member.

View a sample GME Trainee Contract here. For more information, visit BIDMC's Graduate Medical Education (GME) section.

Compensation

Salaries for fellows and residents are similar for all members of the Council of Boston Teaching Hospitals. Salary rates are adjusted annually to account for cost-of-living. Training conditions and work schedules follow the guidelines of the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Listed below are the current academic year salaries for 2019-2020:

Post Graduate Year (PGY)	Salary
PGY-1	$64,000.00
PGY-2	$68,400.00
PGY-3	$71,500.00
PGY-4	$75,200.00
PGY-5	$79,000.00
PGY-6	$80,750.00
PGY-7	$85,500.00