Here are the most notable numbers that were given out during the interview trail/online last year.
Keep in mind the minimum number a single resident needs to do is 175 major OR procedures so a program with 2 residents only needs to do 350 cases in a year to be CODA accredited. The majority of the 100ish programs in the country do less than 1000 major OR cases in a year with many doing less than 500. Most northeast/west coast programs barely satisfy the number of cases required by CODA, while most southern programs are well above this minimum as well as midwestern programs. Keep a lookout for numbers on the trail these year. Programs that do not release numbers you should be weary of. As you can see, programs that have been traditionally notable for being busy have an insane amount of major OR cases in a year.
The trends tend to be that these are the programs with the most faculty, the most residents and are associated with hospitals covering an extremely large radius of population. Northeast/west coast programs tend to have the least faculty, average amount of residents (2-3) and are in cities which have multiple hospitals and multiple OMFS programs.
Keep in mind the minimum number a single resident needs to do is 175 major OR procedures so a program with 2 residents only needs to do 350 cases in a year to be CODA accredited. The majority of the 100ish programs in the country do less than 1000 major OR cases in a year with many doing less than 500. Most northeast/west coast programs barely satisfy the number of cases required by CODA, while most southern programs are well above this minimum as well as midwestern programs. Keep a lookout for numbers on the trail these year. Programs that do not release numbers you should be weary of. As you can see, programs that have been traditionally notable for being busy have an insane amount of major OR cases in a year.
The trends tend to be that these are the programs with the most faculty, the most residents and are associated with hospitals covering an extremely large radius of population. Northeast/west coast programs tend to have the least faculty, average amount of residents (2-3) and are in cities which have multiple hospitals and multiple OMFS programs.
Trauma | Pathology | Orthognathic | Reconstruction | Total number of Procedures | |
Alabama (UAB) | 517 | 1305 | 238 | 1342 | 3402 |
LSU New Orleans | 1277 | 173 | 253 | 1429 | 3132 |
LSU Shreveport | 550 | 1147 | 107 | 878 | 2682 |
UT Southwestern/Parkland | 730 | 683 | 439 | 722 | 2574 |
UT Houston | 741 | 319 | 478 | 889 | 2427 |
Michigan | 118 | 1073 | 328 | 605 | 2124 |
UMKC | 559 | 658 | 165 | 486 | 1868 |
UF Jacksonville | 832 | 231 | 82 | 342 | 1487 |
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