Our story
Built by a CRNA. For the ones coming up behind.
CRNA Dojo was not made by a company. It was made by someone who sat the same exam, in the same chair, with the same knot in his stomach.
Anesthesia school is hard. The NCE is its own kind of hard. When I was preparing for mine, the options were a wall of recorded lectures, a bank of questions with thin explanations, or a course that cost more than a month of rent. None of it was built around how anyone actually studies, in the gaps between cases and clinical days.
So I built what I wanted. It started with books, written for students who needed the high yield material in a form they could carry. Then came the question bank, because recognition is not recall, and you only learn the difference by being asked.
I did not want to help anyone memorize facts for a morning. I wanted to build a place to train, so that on exam day the answer is already in your hands.
Books alone are not enough. Students needed lessons they could finish in a case turnover, questions in the formats the NCE actually uses, memory hooks for the lists you have to produce cold, and something honest enough to tell them where they were still weak.
So I built all of it. CRNA Dojo is now a full NCE training platform: 98 interactive lessons mapped line by line to the NBCRNA content outline, over 5,000 board style questions with rationales, adaptive full length simulations, 135 memory hooks, 98 printable cheat sheets, and eight games that teach.
The dojo idea is not decoration. In a dojo you drill the fundamentals until they are automatic, you get tested, and you move up only when you have earned it. That is how this is built. You do not read here. You train.
The foundation
Faith, discipline, purpose.
CRNA Dojo did not come out of a business plan. It came out of a calling.
I am a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and an author. Before any of that, I am a man of faith. My relationship with God is the foundation the rest is built on: the discipline to chase excellence, the heart to serve, and the reason every piece of this exists.
Anesthesia is more than a job. The person on that table is somebody’s mother, father, child, or friend, and they deserve an anesthetist who showed up prepared. That is what this platform is for.
“Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31This exists to help you pass the NCE. More than that, it exists to sharpen you into the anesthetist you were made to be.
Welcome to the dojo. Now let’s get to work.
The dojo way
How the training is built.
Do, then answer
You build the loops, run the crisis, titrate the drip, read the waveform, and then answer board style questions on what you just did. Deliberate practice, not passive reading.
Nothing wasted
Every lesson and every question maps to the NBCRNA content outline. No filler, no padding, no topics that will never be asked.
Recall under pressure
The exam tests fast, correct recall. Memory hooks and one page cheat sheets turn each lesson into something you can pull up in the room or on exam day.
By the numbers
What is inside.
The journey
How this got here.
Ten years of books for students in the thick of it
A decade of writing for anesthesia students who needed the high yield material in a form they could carry into clinical.
Over 5,000 NCE style questions
Written to the NBCRNA outline, every one with a rationale, because a question without an explanation teaches nothing.
98 interactive lessons
Built one at a time, each fact checked against current guidelines and drug labels, then reviewed again before it went live.
The dojo is open
Lessons, questions, simulations, mnemonics, cheat sheets and the arcade, in one place, on the phone in your pocket.
Join the dojo
Your training starts here.
Five lessons and a scored sample exam, free, with no card.