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anyone know much about NOVA? HELP!!!

 

[salamain]

Nova Southeastern University/ Broward General Medical Center's program is a sleeper. Relatively new program started in 2002 but already has graduated 12 residents (began filled through third year with transfers). The program has two busy outpatient centers one at the Dental school and one at Broward General Medical center, where full scope dento-alveolar, implants with bone grafting, and outpatient anesthesia is performed.The program covers three hospitals two tertiary care Level I trauma centers Memorial Regional and Broward General Medical Center and a Level two Baptist Memorial. The program takes call 24/7 365days at all the hospitals and is the ONLY service covering facial trauma. Training incudes the entire spectrum of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and is one of two programs in the country where the residents not a fellow perform microvascular surgical reconstruction. The program performs greater than 600 major cases/year. Because the program has a clinic in the dental school orthgnathic referrals from Dept. of Ortho is pretty steady along with great pathology. The faculty is outstanding. The program was started by the Chair Dr. Kaltman (university of Pittsburgh) who has Chaired three other programs (Pitt, Allegheny, MCP/Hahmemann) and brings thirty years of trauma experience, The Program Director Dr. Lopez (Jackson U of Miami) is three year fellowship trained in Head and Neck Surgery and Flaps and twenty years experience at Jackson, Dr. McClure (Suny Downstate and Univ. Of Maryland) Fellowship trained in Head and Neck Surgery and Microvascular Surgery, Dr. McCain Jackson) internationally known TMJ surgeon, Dr. Sclar (Jackson)internationally known Implant surgeon, Dr. Ruiz (UNC Chapel Hill) fellowship trained Craniofacial surgeon. Good didactics for board prep. Downside is option program with the Nova School of Osteopathic Medicine. An allopathic option will be available in the near future. Lack a fellowship trained Maxillofacial Cosmetic Surgery faculty at the present time. The program currently accepts three resident's/year. If you want a progressive program where you get to cut early and often This is it!

 

[steamboat]

thanks for the info! I am so excited to check out the program! 🙂

 

[Xigris14]

Great a 4 year residency program that does many microvascular cases. Hello. You are a 4 year without a MD. You wont be doing thise in private practice and without a MD what good does all those cases give you. Thanks for the info because this is not a program I want to interview at.

 

[steamboat]

although I agree with your comment that I think of little differently. If I end up enjoying these surgeries (let's call it complex. non private), I always have an option to further pursue MD down the road. Life is short why not just do all??

 

[NoMoScalin]

Since when did you need an MD to do these types of surgeries? I love when people think that you will become a great surgeon/physician/dentist once you get a couple of letters behind your name. What a joke.

 

[jmjfb23]

Great a 4 year residency program that does many microvascular cases. Hello. You are a 4 year without a MD. You wont be doing thise in private practice and without a MD what good does all those cases give you. Thanks for the info because this is not a program I want to interview at.

Why would you be interviewing if your status says you are already a resident? ...I wouldn't let the post from a bitter resident at a different program sway what you think about a program.

 

[Xigris14]

Hey I have no problem with a single degree resident/ surgeon doing microvascular procedures. Trust me I think both single and dual degree are both qualified to do broad scope OMFS regardless of their degree.
My point is this. How many private practice (PRIVATE PRACTICE) OMFS dual or single degree are performing microvascular procedures? Then my point was how many single degree OMFS in residency programs or hospitals are associated with a Head and Neck Tumor Board on staff who perform these procedures? (Fibular, Radial Forearm.....)
That is my point. I would love to see our speciality evolve and single and dual degree OMFS be respected equally however today we are not their. Just look at how cosmetics is affecting our single degree OMFS let alone our dual degree OMFS in certain states. (Cali for example) So back to the point. I would not be looking for a residency spot that does microvascular procedure as a four year person knowing what I know now. Its nice to do them in residency but in practice there will be none of those cases and in academic programs if I wanted to do those cases I would seek a dual degree program with hopes of a fellowship afterwards. But I rather be doing cases at a institution that I will have the opportunity to perform as a private OMFS. Thats my logic behind my statement.

 

[Guy Smiley]

Nova Southeastern University/ Broward General Medical Center's program is a sleeper. Relatively new program started in 2002 but already has graduated 12 residents (began filled through third year with transfers). The program has two busy outpatient centers one at the Dental school and one at Broward General Medical center, where full scope dento-alveolar, implants with bone grafting, and outpatient anesthesia is performed.The program covers three hospitals two tertiary care Level I trauma centers Memorial Regional and Broward General Medical Center and a Level two Baptist Memorial. The program takes call 24/7 365days at all the hospitals and is the ONLY service covering facial trauma. Training incudes the entire spectrum of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and is one of two programs in the country where the residents not a fellow perform microvascular surgical reconstruction. The program performs greater than 600 major cases/year. Because the program has a clinic in the dental school orthgnathic referrals from Dept. of Ortho is pretty steady along with great pathology. The faculty is outstanding. The program was started by the Chair Dr. Kaltman (university of Pittsburgh) who has Chaired three other programs (Pitt, Allegheny, MCP/Hahmemann) and brings thirty years of trauma experience, The Program Director Dr. Lopez (Jackson U of Miami) is three year fellowship trained in Head and Neck Surgery and Flaps and twenty years experience at Jackson, Dr. McClure (Suny Downstate and Univ. Of Maryland) Fellowship trained in Head and Neck Surgery and Microvascular Surgery, Dr. McCain Jackson) internationally known TMJ surgeon, Dr. Sclar (Jackson)internationally known Implant surgeon, Dr. Ruiz (UNC Chapel Hill) fellowship trained Craniofacial surgeon. Good didactics for board prep. Downside is option program with the Nova School of Osteopathic Medicine. An allopathic option will be available in the near future. Lack a fellowship trained Maxillofacial Cosmetic Surgery faculty at the present time. The program currently accepts three resident's/year. If you want a progressive program where you get to cut early and often This is it!

Ramon Ruiz is a faculty member at NOVA? I thought he was in private practice down there.

 

[Xigris14]

He is not. He is in Orlando. Nova says it b/c he probably comes down to lecture once a year and then he becomes adjunct faculty. Looks good for the program but in reality he is not

 

[drgoro]

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[psiyung]

I heard that NOVA is an awful program that recently lost a resident there.

 

[drgoro]

What makes a program awful?

 

[DiaperDandy]

I heard that NOVA is an awful program that recently lost a resident there.

Anybody know why this resident left the program? I may be fishing for gossip here, but what else is this forum good for??? Near truth is acceptable.

 

[LSU-Cowboy]

What makes a program awful?

It's weak.......Ruiz is NOT a faculty....He has his own fellowship program in Orlando....and Sclar is adjuct faculty and full-time private practice in South Miami...

 

[psiyung]

Anybody know why this resident left the program? I may be fishing for gossip here, but what else is this forum good for??? Near truth is acceptable.

Well, this is from a second year resident that is CURRENTLY in the program, so you cant take my word for it. He's an old friend of mine that tells me some pretty scary things about what goes on over there.

 

[DNOMS]

I am looking for a facial cosmetic fellowship or a cranial facial surgery fellowship with cosmetic surgery component. Do you have any recommendation or experience to share with me? How about the Saint Louis OMS fellowship?

 

[NSUOMFS]

The program started in 2002 . There are two outpatient centers one at the NSU Dental school and one at Broward General Medical center. The NSU dental clinic is similar to a private practice OMFS clinic. (impactions, simple and complex implants, sedation, bone grafting, soft tissue work, trauma follow up and minor cosmetic (fillers/botox)). This clinic is fed from dental school referrals and outside referrals. It is a cash pay clinic. Dental students receive 6 free implants to give to patients, which is primary source of implants. The other outpatient center is a Broward Health Medical Center it primarily treats uninsured, under insured and cancer patient follow ups of Dr. McClure. (impactions, sedation, trauma follow up and pathology follow up)

The program covers three hospitals two tertiary care Level I trauma centers Memorial Regional Hospital (MRH) and Broward General Medical Center (BGMC) and a Level two Memorial Hospital West (MHW). The program takes call 365 days/year at MRH, 273/year at BGMC (3 out of 4 weeks) and 91 days/year at MHW. At all hospitals the OMFS resident service is the only service covering facial trauma. MRH is affiliated with Joe Dimaggio Children's Hospital (JDCH) and residents work there as well (365/year)

The program has a clinic in the dental school the provides a steady flow of orthognathic referrals. Oral pathology is completed in house.

The program was started by the Chair Dr. Kaltman (university of Pittsburgh) who has Chaired three other programs (Pitt, Allegheny, MCP/Hahmemann), The Program Director Dr. McClure (Suny Downstate and Univ. Of Maryland) is fellowship trained in Head and Neck Surgery and Microvascular Surgery), Dr. Jason Portnof (Cornell, Wellington Centre for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery) is fellowship trained in craniofacial anomalies. These are the faculty residents spend the bulk of their residency with. There is currently a search underway for a 4th attending position.

Dr. Ana Ospina oversees the the predoctoral clinic.

Residents rotate with the following individuals:

1. Dr. TJ Tejera. Spend one day per month in the OMFS Nova clinic. Primarily directing residents on cosmetic procedures as well as practice management.
2. Dr. Curtis Schalit. Chief residents rotate for one month in Dr. Schalit’s private office. Focused solely on cosmetic procedures.
3. Dr. John Clarke. Takes one week of call per month at BGMC
4. Dr. Anthony Sclar. Third year residents rotate for two weeks at his private office. Focused solely on dental implants/soft tissue procedures/hard tissue augmentation/ and All on four procedures.
5. Dr. Michael A. Pikos. Residents attend his 2 to 3 day lectures and hands on course at the Pikos Institute on Complex bone grafting, implant reconstruction, soft tissue management, and sinus augmentation.

The program’s Yearly schedule is the following:
Year one: 4 Months adult anesthesia (BGMC), 1 Month pediatric anesthesia (JDCH), 2 Months internal medicine, 5 months OMFS Service.
Year Two: 6 Month OMFS on service, 3 Months MRH Trauma resident, 3 Months BGMC Trauma resident
Year Three: 12 Months on OMFS service. (less 2 weeks at Dr. Sclar rotation)
Year Four: 4 Months OMFS Chief BGMC, 4 Months OMFS Chief MRH, 3 Months float chief, and 1 Month Cosmetic rotation with Dr. Schalit.

Chiefs attend yearly AAOMS meeting and 3rd years go to review course at LSU or Denver.

Call is covered by 1st, 2nd and 3rd year residents. Depending on the number of on service residents ranges from q2 to q5 call. BGMC is in house call, while MRH is home call with 20 minute response time.

There is a publication requirement to graduate. The program accepts three resident's/year.


I hope that helps anyone out there looking at Nova OMFS. For externship requests contact program director Dr. McClure: [email protected]