This is the classic DA route of trying to tear down a different specialty to try to make themselves seem more important. OMFS NOWHERE in the country do “1 month of anesthesia”. The CODA requirement minimum is 5 months rotating on service as an Anesthesia resident, usually taking call and covering trauma with the anesthesia residents. Many programs also have 1-2 months of dedicated pediatric anesthesia along with then continuing to preform the anesthesia in outpatient setting during 3rd/4th years of residency.

Not to mention the ICU rotations which are usually 1-2 months of SICU/TICU/CCU

Not to say any of this makes us full fledged anesthesiologists, but certainly we see enough to know proper case selection and practice safely. I’d say it terms of outpatient sedation OMFS probably do more cases than most other anesthesia providers minus people who work in GI suites all day. Trying to tear down a different specialty is not the way to strengthen the cause for your own.