**Official 2026 OMFS PASS/Interviews/Match/Non-Match/Information**

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Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10 - email 9/11
UAB: 10/20 - email 9/16
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 - email 9/16
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 - email 9/16
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
 
Northwell Health – North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Queens, NY
IG @NorthwellOMFS

We offer both four and six year tracks and are affiliated with the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Our home base is Long Island Jewish Hospital located in Queens, NY. However, we operate at Lenox Hill Hospital, North Shore University Hospital, and the Northport VA. We have a good mix of grads pursuing private practice and fellowship.

Faculty
Chair: David Hirsch, MD, DDS, FACS – head and neck fellowship trained
Chief of Service: Andrew Salama MD, DDS, FACS – head and neck fellowship trained
Program Director: Hunter Martin DDS, MD, FACS.
Peter Protzel DDS, MD. Operates at LIJ and Northshore
Dr. Megan Sullivan DDS MD - Trained at UT San Antionio
Dr. Laurent Ganry MD - Maxillofacial surgeon, triple fellowship trained in cosmetics, oncology/microvascular. Maintains a unique and busy practice that you will not see offered in other places
Brett Miles DDS, MD, FACS – Dual boarded OMFS and ENT – head and neck fellowship trained
Arlene Rodriguez DDS, MD- Director of the Northport VA
Dr. Elisheva Rosenfeld DDS, MD, FACS.
Dr. Rebecca Fisher DMD


New York Center for Orthognathic and Maxillofacial Surgery (NYCOMS)- a private practice affiliated with our program that bring a high volume of orthognathic surgery (>275 cases per year) and some TMJ to LIJ. Surgeons include:
Dr. Michael Schwartz DDS, FACS
Dr. Salvatore Ruggiero DMD, MD, FACS
Dr. Stephen Sachs DDS, FACS
Dr. Adam Abel DDS, FACS
Dr. Allen Glied DMD, MD



Sites
Long Island Jewish Medical Center:
Located in Queens NY
Call: Adult level 2 trauma center, pediatrics level 1 (Cohens Children's Medical Center– attached to LIJ). We cover face trauma every night at both hospitals. Interns are on call Q3-4. No tooth call (covered by LIJMC GPR/Peds). Home call is permitted with a call room available if you choose to stay in the hospital. OMFS only service who covers facial trauma.
Clinic: 5 days per week AM/PM. lots of pathology (both benign and malignant), orthognathic workups, TMJ, sedations. The OMFS clinic is attached to the peds dental clinic in Cohens, and we do a lot of pediatric procedures there as well (exos, expose and bond etc).
OR: Operate Monday thru Friday. High volume orthognathic surgery (not unusual to do 4 cases in a week), pathology- resections and reconstruction (lots of flaps and “Jaw in a day” surgeries (ie. flaps with immediate implant reconstruction)), cleft repairs, TMJ (including total joint replacements), zygomatic implants, bread and butter. The Cohens Children’s hospital ORs are brand new and state-of-the-art.

North Shore University Hospital: Located in Manhasset NY
Call: Level 1 trauma center. We alternate trauma call every other week with plastics. Residents are on general call Q3-4. No tooth call (covered by NSUH GPR). Home call is permitted with a call room available if you choose to stay in the hospital.
Clinic: 5 days per week AM/PM. busy dentoalveolar clinic with lots of 3rds and sedations. We work closely with the NSUH GPR residents.
OR: variable case type- our attendings at LIJ also book cases here so anything we do there we do here as well with the exception of malignant path.

Lenox Hill Hospital: located in Upper East Side Manhattan
Level 3 trauma center. Currently undergoing a massive expansion.
OR: Trauma, orthognathics, pathology + reconstruction.

South Shore University Hospital: Located in Bay Shore LI.
Level 1 trauma center. We only go here for operative trauma cases on an as-needed basis

Northport VA
Senior level rotation, no call at this location
Busy dentoalveolar clinic with lots of implants

Rotations
6 year dual-degree program – 2 residents per year
Year 1: 7 months OMFS, 5 months medical school. You will acquire an EMT certification during the first month of medical school and staff ambulances for a few shifts
Year 2: 3 months OMFS, 9 months medical school
Year 3: 12 months medical school. During this year, you can take an OMFS elective which allows you to come to clinic/ the OR and operate periodically.
Year 4: 1 month SICU, 5 months anesthesia, 6 months general surgery (MD is awarded December of year 4)
Year 5: 12 months OMFS
Year 6: 12 months OMFS

4 year program- 2 residents per year
Year 1: 10 months OMFS, 2 months internal medicine
Year 2: 4 months General Surgery, 1 month SICU, 5 months anesthesia, 2 months Plastic Surgery
Year 3: 12 months OMFS
Year 4: 12 months OMFS


Didactic Schedule
  • Mondays: Case conference/M&M
  • Tuesdays: Attending lectures, Tumor board
  • Fridays: Journal Club, Board Review

Salary/Benefits/Lifestyle
The Northwell health insurance packages are excellent. Residents get 4 weeks of vacation per year and are offered subsidized hospital housing in a lottery system. Multiple residents in our programs have started families while in residency. Most of us live in the Queens/ New Hyde Park area which is less expensive compared to other areas in NYC. Having a car is essential here. We honor post-call, and you will go home the day after a night of call. Salary info attached below:
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Research
All residents are required to be involved in research during their time on service. The program funds a trip to the AAOMS annual meeting for those who have abstracts accepted.

Zucker School of Medicine
ZSOM is an excellent medical school with professors who are very invested in your education. Most of the classes are taught in small groups. As many of our patients have complex needs, confidence in medical management is essential when caring for them as well as interacting with colleagues in the hospital. There is a scholarship available to all 6 yr OMFS residents to offset the cost.


Program strengths:
  • We operate every day at multiple locations. Often doing more than 30 cases a week. We are not considered “top heavy”. Interns will be very involved in the OR from an early point.
  • The scope and volume. We are a very OR heavy program that gets exposure to many different attendings who operate in different styles. We have notable faculty who have advanced our field. (Dr. Hirsch who coined “Jaw-in a day” surgery, Dr. Ruggiero who was one of the first to describe MRONJ in the literature).
  • The attendings are very invested in your training and will work with you to get you to your career goals.
  • We work closely with the Northwell Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology service led by the world-renowned Dr. John Fantasia. They interpret much of the New York area’s biopsies. This department is a wealth of knowledge and you will work side by side with them in the clinic.
Externship
Our externs will spend most of their time scrubbed in the operating room at LIJ. They will see and participate in everything from panfacial trauma to cancer ablations and fibula reconstructions. They are encouraged to take call one night during the week they are here. To arrange an externship, please contact Staci Hill at [email protected].



 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 - email 9/16
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
LSU Shreveport: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/17
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
LSU Shreveport: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/17
UCSF: 11/7 - email 9/18
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
LSU Shreveport: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/17
UCSF: 11/7 - email 9/18
UCSF-Fresno: 10/29 - email 9/18
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
LSU Shreveport: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/17
UCSF: 11/7 - email 9/18
UCSF-Fresno: 10/29 - email 9/18
UF Gainesville (6 year) 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 - email 9/17
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
LSU Shreveport: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/17
UCSF: 11/7 - email 9/18
UCSF-Fresno: 10/29 - email 9/18
UF Gainesville (6 year) 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 - email 9/17
UT Houston: 10/27, 11/3 - email 9/19
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
LSU Shreveport: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/17
UCSF: 11/7 - email 9/18
UCSF-Fresno: 10/29 - email 9/18
UF Gainesville (6 year) 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 - email 9/17
UT Houston: 10/27, 11/3 - email 9/19
4 or 6 year?
 
Program: Interview dates - Contact date
Indiana: 10/24, 10/27 - Call June
Henry Ford: 10/2, 11/6, 12/4 - email 8/23
UF Jacksonville: 10/7, 11/18 - email 9/3, email 9/7, email 9/9
Oklahoma: 10/18 - email 8/28
Case Western: 10/3, 11/7 - email 9/8
UTMCK 6 year: 11/10, 11/17 - email 9/11, email 9/16
UAB: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/16, email 9/17
Texas Tech El Paso: 11/17, 11/18 - email 9/16
Louisville: 10/23, 10/28, 11/4 - email 9/17
BU (4yr): 11/7 - email 9/17
BU (6 yr): 11/8 - email 9/17
LSU Shreveport: 10/20 10/27 - email 9/17
UCSF: 11/7 - email 9/18
UCSF-Fresno: 10/29 - email 9/18
UF Gainesville (6 year) 10/23, 10/30, 11/6 - email 9/17
UT Houston (4 yr): 10/27, 11/3 - email 9/19
 
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