• 4 year undergraduate degree (some also enroll in a pre-med program)
  
• 4 years of medical school
  
• 1 year of internship
  
• 3 years of anesthesiology residency
  
• (optional) 1 year of fellowship in a specific area of anesthesiology such as critical care medicine, pain medicine, research or education
  

http://www.healthcaresalaryonline.com/anesthesiologist-job-description.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruments_used_in_anesthesiology

• responsible for the preoperative assessment of a patient and their postoperative condition as they recover from the effects of the anesthesia
  
• provide anesthesia and appropriate treatments to reduce or eliminate pain before, during, and after a procedure
  
• monitor the patient for reactions to or complications with the anesthesia
  
• maintain heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, and breathing during surgery
  
• help stabilize ill or injure patients in intensive care units
  

• continuous-flow anesthetic machine
  
• anesthetic vaporizers
  
• oxygen mask
  
• nasal oxygen set
  
• guedel airways
  
• suction catheter
  
• peripheral venous catheter
  
• artificial resuscitator (bag valve mask)
  
• bain circuit
  
• laryngoscope
  
• endotracheal tube
  
• laryngeal mask airway
  
• tracheostomy tube
  
• endoscopes
  
• needles, syringe
  
• epidural anesthesia set
  
• epidural catheter