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University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) OMFS
Tracks:
6-year MD/DMD Track (1 position)
4-year DMD Track (2 positions)
1-year Non-Categorical Internships (5 positions)
Department Chair:
Michael Miloro DMD, MD, FACS
Program Director:
Michael Han DMD, FACS
Full-Time Attendings:
Nicholas Callahan DMD, MD, MPH, FACS
Ashleigh Weyh DMD, MD, MPH
Raza Hussain DMD, FACS (Jesse Brown VA)
UIC is an extremely broad-scope program in the heart of Chicago. It has one of the busiest dentoalveolar and implant clinics in the country, significant orthognathic experience, and a modest exposure to reconstructive surgery.
The program is located on the first floor of the UIC College of Dentistry in Little Italy on the near West Side. The main hospital is across the street at UIH, but the service covers 3 total hospitals total (UIH, VA, Christ). The dental school is a great referral base for dental implants and orthognathic surgeries from our Prosth and Ortho residencies. UIH ED is busy with head and neck pathology and minor trauma, and Advocate Christ Hospital has significant exposure to midface and panfacial trauma as a Level I trauma center. All residents also rotate at the Jesse Brown VA, where first year residents will place ~30-40 implants during the first year, with most seniors completing around 300 total dental implants by graduation.
Most residents live just north of the hospital (Fulton Market, West Fulton), as well as downtown (Loop and River North), further north (Lincoln Park), or across the street (Scio and Little Italy). Chicago has amazing restaurants, breweries, sporting events, and museums.
Dr. Miloro places high emphasis on research and having the residents develop a strong knowledge base, as such, the program has many weekly AM and PM conferences. A typical day will start with inpatient rounds (1-5 patients) between 6-7AM, followed by lecture from 7:30-8:30AM. Each day from 8:30AM-4:30PM there is an outpatient dentoalveolar clinic with IVGA cases in the morning (~15-18 sedations per day) and the afternoon is filled with various local anesthesia procedures. One of the best parts of the program is the outpatient anesthesia experience with 2,000-2,500 IVGA procedures each year by the OMFS residents.
First year residents spend 10 months on oral surgery (4 months of which is at the VA), and the remaining 2 months are spent with Medicine at the VA. First year residents carry the pager, and call is typically Q5-6, all home call. Second year is split between 6 months of anesthesia and 6 months of general surgery. Residents then rotate back on to OMFS for the remaining 24 months. For the MD track residents, they break off after the first year and spend 18 months on hospital rotations for M3/M4 at UIC (same campus). They rotate back onto Anesthesia during January of the M4 year for 6 months, followed by 8 months of general surgery. The MD track actually offers more months on OMFS service, and it is one of the few programs where there is NO tuition for medical school (free for State of Illinois employees – which includes residents).
Dr. Miloro is the Editor of Peterson’s, Complications, and Trigeminal Nerve Injuries, as well as a Section Editor for the JOMS and serves many roles on AAOMS. He is extremely knowledgeable and offers a one of a kind exposure to orthognathics (having trained with Dr. Fonseca at Penn) as well as nerve graft repair, which he lectures about around the world. Dr. Han is Fellowship trained at Dalhousie University and performs a significant amount of orthognathic surgery including in-house 3D printing and VSP as well as TMJ surgery. Dr. Callahan did a Fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Surgery at Maryland with Dr. Ord, and this adds a nice component to our training without overwhelming it with oncology. Dr. Weyh is also Fellowship trained in H&N Oncology and Microvascular Surgery at University of Florida, Jacksonville.
Best Program Aspects: Truly a full-scope program: amazing dentoalveolar, dental implant, and outpatient anesthesia experience, also a lot of orthognathic and reconstructive surgery, some manageable maxillofacial trauma, organized didactics, resident and faculty camaraderie, living in Chicago!
Here is an article Dr. Miloro wrote about the MATCH (https://www.joms.org/article/S0278-2391(16)30607-3/abstract).
Program Website:
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Training Program | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry
Tracks:
6-year MD/DMD Track (1 position)
4-year DMD Track (2 positions)
1-year Non-Categorical Internships (5 positions)
Department Chair:
Michael Miloro DMD, MD, FACS
Program Director:
Michael Han DMD, FACS
Full-Time Attendings:
Nicholas Callahan DMD, MD, MPH, FACS
Ashleigh Weyh DMD, MD, MPH
Raza Hussain DMD, FACS (Jesse Brown VA)
UIC is an extremely broad-scope program in the heart of Chicago. It has one of the busiest dentoalveolar and implant clinics in the country, significant orthognathic experience, and a modest exposure to reconstructive surgery.
The program is located on the first floor of the UIC College of Dentistry in Little Italy on the near West Side. The main hospital is across the street at UIH, but the service covers 3 total hospitals total (UIH, VA, Christ). The dental school is a great referral base for dental implants and orthognathic surgeries from our Prosth and Ortho residencies. UIH ED is busy with head and neck pathology and minor trauma, and Advocate Christ Hospital has significant exposure to midface and panfacial trauma as a Level I trauma center. All residents also rotate at the Jesse Brown VA, where first year residents will place ~30-40 implants during the first year, with most seniors completing around 300 total dental implants by graduation.
Most residents live just north of the hospital (Fulton Market, West Fulton), as well as downtown (Loop and River North), further north (Lincoln Park), or across the street (Scio and Little Italy). Chicago has amazing restaurants, breweries, sporting events, and museums.
Dr. Miloro places high emphasis on research and having the residents develop a strong knowledge base, as such, the program has many weekly AM and PM conferences. A typical day will start with inpatient rounds (1-5 patients) between 6-7AM, followed by lecture from 7:30-8:30AM. Each day from 8:30AM-4:30PM there is an outpatient dentoalveolar clinic with IVGA cases in the morning (~15-18 sedations per day) and the afternoon is filled with various local anesthesia procedures. One of the best parts of the program is the outpatient anesthesia experience with 2,000-2,500 IVGA procedures each year by the OMFS residents.
First year residents spend 10 months on oral surgery (4 months of which is at the VA), and the remaining 2 months are spent with Medicine at the VA. First year residents carry the pager, and call is typically Q5-6, all home call. Second year is split between 6 months of anesthesia and 6 months of general surgery. Residents then rotate back on to OMFS for the remaining 24 months. For the MD track residents, they break off after the first year and spend 18 months on hospital rotations for M3/M4 at UIC (same campus). They rotate back onto Anesthesia during January of the M4 year for 6 months, followed by 8 months of general surgery. The MD track actually offers more months on OMFS service, and it is one of the few programs where there is NO tuition for medical school (free for State of Illinois employees – which includes residents).
Dr. Miloro is the Editor of Peterson’s, Complications, and Trigeminal Nerve Injuries, as well as a Section Editor for the JOMS and serves many roles on AAOMS. He is extremely knowledgeable and offers a one of a kind exposure to orthognathics (having trained with Dr. Fonseca at Penn) as well as nerve graft repair, which he lectures about around the world. Dr. Han is Fellowship trained at Dalhousie University and performs a significant amount of orthognathic surgery including in-house 3D printing and VSP as well as TMJ surgery. Dr. Callahan did a Fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Surgery at Maryland with Dr. Ord, and this adds a nice component to our training without overwhelming it with oncology. Dr. Weyh is also Fellowship trained in H&N Oncology and Microvascular Surgery at University of Florida, Jacksonville.
Best Program Aspects: Truly a full-scope program: amazing dentoalveolar, dental implant, and outpatient anesthesia experience, also a lot of orthognathic and reconstructive surgery, some manageable maxillofacial trauma, organized didactics, resident and faculty camaraderie, living in Chicago!
Here is an article Dr. Miloro wrote about the MATCH (https://www.joms.org/article/S0278-2391(16)30607-3/abstract).
Program Website:
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Training Program | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry
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