OMFS Programs Overview

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Case Western Reserve University - 2023/2024 Program Update​

Hello current and future applicants! With the application deadline past, it's time for interviews! Since Case usually has our interviews at the beginning of the cycle, we figured it's a great time to push out another program update. During the interview season, things move very fast, so use this post as a reference as you start thinking about your rank list.

We love our program! I hope you all have the chance to interview here and meet us in person so we can show you why. If you aren't fortunate enough to match, we also welcome you to join us for a non-categorical year.

Case Western Reserve University has the nation’s only 5-year MD integrated OMFS program. We match 3 residents per year, 1 international resident, 1 research fellow, plus a variable number of non-categoricals (usually ~3-5).

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Year 1 (7 months UH OMFS, 3 months VA OMFS, 2 months Anesthesia)
Before you begin the program, you will take the CBSE again in May or June. You are required by the Case Western medical school to score above a 70 before you can take USMLE Step 1. You will take Step 1 in June or July, prior to going on service. Most of our interns take Step 1 in June so they have the rest of June and July to relax before they start August 1st.

As an intern, you are the backbone of our busy clinic. We are extremely resident-run, which comes with a lot of benefits, but also requires a strong work ethic by everyone on the team. In clinic, you will do all the procedures under local - that means impacted wisdom teeth, full mouth extractions, bone grafting, biopsies, expose & bonds, consults, etc. If it's under local, it's for the interns. With that said, there are always upper level residents in clinic to help if you should find yourself in a situation where you need help. You will also be in charge of overseeing the dental students and rescuing them when they get stuck with their patients. As a VA resident, your dentoalveolar experience is unmatched. You will be performing similar procedures as your time at the Case Western clinic, but your focus will be placing implants. Most of our residents place 100-200 implants at the VA their first year, many of which are multi-unit cases. At the VA, we plan the cases on our CBCT and place them freehand. At the VA, you’ll have much more supervision, and residents appreciate the close relationship with the faculty who serve as our personal coaches. In the hospital, you will manage our inpatients and learn how they are managed pre- and post-operatively. Interns take the most primary call of all the residents (see details below), but of course, there's always an upper level who has your back if needed. On anesthesia, you’ll be rotating at University Hospitals main campus. By the end of your anesthesia rotation you will be comfortable inducing, intubating, managing, and emerging patients from general anesthesia. We work one on one with CRNA’s and anesthesia residents, under the supervision of an attending anesthesiologist. When off service on anesthesia, you are not expected to participate in any on-service duties such as taking call and attending lectures. Throughout first year, you will have various medical school seminars learning how to do full H&P’s and you’ll be tested with actors in simulation exams. This is generally once per week during the evening. Not bad for getting to skip MS1 and MS2. You pay a very small amount of tuition this year.

Year 2 (12 months medical school)

You are a third year medical student. Your rotations include Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, OBGYN, Internal Medicine, and Family Medicine. You have no on service responsibilities. Most rotations treat us like regular MS3’s, some (like surgery and EM) will give us more responsibility and treat us more like acting interns. This is generally a light year that makes way for the potential for lots of reading. Most residents take STEP 2 in May or June right after their final MS3 rotation. You pay for medical school this year. This is generally the year we complete our CODA research requirement.

Year 3 (6 months UH OMFS, 3 months Metro OMFS chief, 3 months Anesthesia including 1 month dedicated pediatric anesthesia)

You are a midlevel resident, spending nearly the entire year on OMFS service. In clinic, you are head honcho most days. You will be doing IV sedations in the clinic all day (we do IV sedations 5 days a week), while supervising the 1st-year residents doing all the local cases. You are also placing most of the implants for all the dental student patients. After you learn to freehand at the VA, we've been moving to fully guided for our dental school implants, so you'll learn both ways. We have an intraoral scanner, model scanner, CBCT, 3D printer, and guided kits. You'll be comfortable with Straumann, Zimmer, BioHorizons, and Nobel by the time you're done. When in the the OR, you are 2nd operator for most cases, and usually chiefs will let you be 1st operator for infections and trauma cases. While at Metro, YOU ARE THE CHIEF. You do all the OR cases, and you run the clinic with 2 Metro non-cats. You are taking a lot of backup call, but notably less primary call than intern year. This is technically your 4th year of medical school, but besides taking STEP 2, you have no medical school responsibilities (except tuition). In May, you graduate from the medical school and get your MD. On anesthesia, you’ll have an entire month dedicated to pediatric cases. Many residents finish their graduation anesthesia requirements (300 total cases, 150 of which must be ambulatory OMFS cases) by the end of 3rd year.

Year 4 (3 months OMFS at UH or Metro, 3 months ENT, 3 months Plastics, 1 month Trauma Surgery, 1 month Pediatric Surgery, 1 month Trauma ICU)

At most programs, this is a full “GenSurg year” where you spend 12 months on the general surgery team. At Case, you will spend 3 months on OMFS continuing your responsibilities as a midlevel/chief. On ENT, you'll spend time with our nationally-ranked Head & Neck colleagues doing flaps and flaps and flaps. Plastic surgery done is at MetroHealth for 3 months where you’ll get more exposure to flaps, reconstruction, and cosmetic surgery. The final 3 months are a month each of TICU, Trauma Surgery, and Pediatric Surgery. Most of our residents take STEP 3 during 4th year. We receive 2 years of ACGME credit toward medical licensure. YES, 2 full years of ACGME credit!

Year 5 (12 months OMFS)

As chief, you will be chief of the UH team. You are ultimately responsible for all aspects of the service. You will be in the operating room multiple days every week as the primary operator. Our faculty puts a great deal of trust in us to be prepared for our cases, and in turn, we cut 100% of the cases. Our attendings are there to teach us and help us when we need it, not to do the procedure and have us assist. When you are not in the operating room you will be in clinic doing sedations, seeing your post-ops, and training the lower level residents. This is a busy year with a lot of responsibility, but when you finish chief year you will be ready to go out and practice independently and confidently.

Total 34 months of OMFS


Scope
We are a broad-scope program, including ample training in dentoalveolar surgery, implants, sedations/anesthesia, orthognathic, pediatric cases, TMJ, infections, benign pathology, reconstruction, trauma, and cosmetics.

Dentoalveolar: Being on the ground floor of a dental school with 80 students/year and speciality departments, we are flooded with dentoalveolar cases. You will be more than comfortable managing any dentoalveolar case and administering in office sedation.

TMJ: I think we do more custom TMJ replacements than 90% of programs. We get referrals from throughout Ohio and beyond. We offer a full spectrum of options ranging from conservative treatments like TMJ Botox and arthrocentesis, to aggressive treatment like total TMJ replacement.

Infections: These are a great opportunity to allow our junior residents a chance to be primary operators in the OR setting. We see enough of these that you will quickly become comfortable managing these patients surgically and medically.

Dental Implants: As I mentioned above, most residents place 100-200 at the VA their first year. Then do even more as a midlevel at the dental school. I think the numbers speak for themselves. We use Zimmer, Straumann, BioHorizons, and Nobel. We use CoDiagnostics for our planning software. We have an in house 3D printer and design and print our own surgical guides.

Orthognathic: We have a great orthodontic department that provides a steady stream of referrals. Case Western is home to a craniofacial orthodontics fellowship program which means we work hand in hand with the fellow on complex orthognathic cases. Our attendings are well known and respected in the community and also receive a high volume of referrals from private orthodontists. At MetroHealth we have a steady stream of OSA patients on whom we perform MMA. Our residents all graduate feeling very comfortable working up, planning, and performing orthognathic surgery.

Cosmetic Surgery: This is where we stand out. Dr. Quereshy brings us to rhinoplasties, face lifts, neck lifts, blepharoplasties, facial implants, and more. In clinic, we keep the Botox and Filler stocked and ready to use. I think I've done almost 150 filler cases myself. We've had residents match into cosmetic surgery fellowships in the past, and we seem to keep attracting more who want to pursue it.

Trauma: Most programs have good trauma, and we're no exception. We cover two Level I trauma centers (University Hospitals main campus and MetroHealth), so we are not lacking for trauma cases. There are parts of Cleveland with high crime rates in the Summer, and there are lots of MVCs in the Winter thanks to the ice. Lacerations are done in the ED by our interns, and you'll see plenty of dog bites, falls, assaults, and slips on ice. We get too many mandibles and orbital fractures. Once in a while we get those gnarly pan facials from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or MVC. We cover trauma call every 3rd week, with ENT and Plastics covering the remainder of the time.

Pathology/Reconstruction: We do not do malignant pathology - we have our excellent ENT colleagues for those cases. Most of us residents appreciate that we do not manage malignant pathology on our service and can refer these patients to ENT, and we see it as a blessing of the program. We do anything benign, no matter the size of the ameloblastoma or myxoma or ameloblastic fibroma. Dr. Baur is a big name in treatment of osteonecrosis, so he gets all the referrals from local surgeons for MRONJ and ORN. For reconstruction, we do lots and lots of iliac crest grafts, rib grafts, and mandibular autografts.

Craniofacial: Our craniofacial experience is limited to some secondary bone grafting and cleft orthognathics. We do not do primary cleft or craniofacial reconstruction. Just like for malignant path, most of us enjoy not managing complex craniofacial cases on our service.

Sedations/Anesthesia: I think this is where we excel. We run a very busy clinic, including IV sedations 5 days/week. When we are fully staffed with residents, we do 2 or 3 sedations per hour all day. Most of the residents here plan to go into private practice, so excellent clinic training is important to us all. Many of us are done with our CODA sedation requirements by the end of 3rd year.


Facilities
Our home is the first floor of the CWRU dental school building across the street from the Cleveland Clinic. The building is about 4 years old. Ask anyone who has externed with us - we have beautiful facilities! TV in every patient room, modern chairs and lights, clean and well lit interiors, wonderfully helpful staff, and plenty of space. We have a lab, pre-op/post-op areas, storage rooms, a resident room, a conference room, and much more. We have an entire army of dental students, ortho residents, and AEGD residents who are a constant stream of referrals to us. The new Samson Pavilion where we hold lectures and have medical school lectures is next door to our dental school.

Our clinic has 2 OR’s. Full-blown operating rooms. We are currently completing the process of credentialing and staffing these as ambulatory OR’s so we can start operating at our home base. We’re hoping to have these up and running by 2024. We’re really excited about opening these, because it means we can move all of our ambulatory cases out of the hospital OR’s and replace the block time with bigger cases.

Our OR home is University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, a Level 1 trauma center, about a 5 minute drive down Euclid Ave. We operate out of Mather OR (UH’s main OR) and Prentiss OR (UH’s pediatric OR). We also operate at some of UH’s satellite sites, including Ahuja Medical Center and Mentor Medical Center.

MetroHealth is a Level 1 trauma center on the west side of Cleveland. It's about 15-20 minutes from the dental school. Metro is the county hospital and a very busy trauma center.

The Louis Stokes VA Medical Center is a 3 minute drive from the dental school. This is where you rotate 1st year.

Call
Interns take the most primary call, generally ~q4-5. The non-cats also pick up some non-trauma days to help out. We split trauma call with ENT and plastics, with us taking every 3rd week. Metro and UH have two separate teams, so you will never be on call at both hospitals at the same time. It can be very busy on trauma nights. Any laceration, fracture, or god-knows-what to the head will be lighting up your pager. Thankfully, we have an AEGD team who takes tooth call. We do not splint teeth, this is handled by AEGD. Sometimes AEGD will call us in for an infection they don’t think they can handle, but they always go see the patient first to screen out a lot of the nonsense tooth calls other programs sometimes have to deal with. So non-trauma days are generally pretty quiet. We have a dedicated call room and we receive a food stipend. The VA has a pager but it rarely goes off.

Faculty
Dr. Dale A. Baur, DDS. Program Chair. Dr. Baur does just about everything. He is trained in Head & Neck. He's most known for benign path, osteonecrosis, orthognathics, and TMJ replacement. He is also very involved in the dental school, serving as vice dean among other roles.

Dr. Faisal A. Quereshy, MD, DDS, FACS. Program Director. @FaceSurgeon. Dr. Quereshy operates broadly, but is most famous for his cosmetic work. He runs a successful private practice in Ohio from which he sometimes refers patients.

Dr. Keith Schneider, DMD, FACS. Dr. Schneider covers a lot of our trauma and is honestly one of the calmest, nicest people I've ever met. He also runs a very successful private practice in Ohio. He brings many patients from his private practice (as well as local prisons) to our service for surgeries.

Our VA attendings are…
Dr. Michael Horan, MD, DDS, PhD, FACS - Clinic Director
Dr. John Brokloff, DDS

Our MetroHealth attendings are…
Dr. Petra Olivieri, DMD, MD (Case grad from 2021) - Division Chief
Dr. Justin Clemow, DMD, MD, FACS
Dr. Alan Martinez, DDS

We also have various faculty who cover our clinic and act as mentors to us. They include…
Dr. Donald P. Lewis, DDS, CFE (Case grad)
Dr. James Perhavec, DMD (Case grad)
Dr. Maximillian G. Beushausen, DMD, MD (Case Grad from 2018)
Dr. Thomas J. Dietrich DDS, MD (Louisville grad from 2010)

We have dedicated staff, who are a blessing to have around. They assist in scheduling patients in the OR and clinic, seating patients, turning over rooms, taking patients to radiology, organizing cabinets, stocking supplies, and maintaining our medication room.

Finances
You are paid a stipend ~$65k-70k every year except 2nd year.
You pay tuition (~$55k) 2nd and 3rd year.
Financial aid is available from Case Western Reserve University.

Lectures/Didactics
We have set lecture series which occur most mornings. Our lecture series include…

• Case presentations (We review the upcoming 2 weeks of cases. What are we doing? How are we doing them? What concerns do we have?)​
• OMFS Lecture Series (We split up the chapters in Petersons and Fonseca and we take turns giving lectures about the chapters)​
• Orthognathic Conference with the Orthodontics Department​
• AEGD Conference with the AEGD Department, usually focusing on implants​
• Oral Pathology with our UH oral pathologist​
• Emergency Lectures with Dr. Perhavec, covering anesthesia emergencies, clinic emergencies, etc.​
• Pathology Lectures with Dr. Helman (Michigan Head & Neck trained).​
• On Fridays, it’s usually a miscellaneous lecture, could be an extra OMFS Lecture, M&M Conference, etc.​

Research
We are expected to “participate in research activity” as mandated by accreditation. What you do is largely up to you. Some will complete it during medical school. We have been taking a research fellow each year, which has been awesome, because it allows us to focus on the surgery part, and the research fellow takes care of the research part, and we have been publishing a lot more thanks to them.

Externships
We try to always have an extern scheduled each week. It’s the best way to see our facilities and get a feel for our program culture. Externs tend to enjoy the week with us. When you’re here, we try to get you to every OR case we can. You are our guest and we do our best to treat you well. We always call you for any trauma which rolls in to get you involved.

Cleveland
It’s definitely not as bad as you’ve heard. Our university has a beautiful, private school campus feel and while there are bad parts of Cleveland, you will have zero reasons to go there. Looking to live close? Try University Circle or Little Italy. Looking to live somewhere young and hip? Try Ohio City or Tremont. Looking for a nice suburban neighborhood with families? Try University Heights or Beachwood.

In the Summer, downtown always has a pool party somewhere. For the outdoors people, Cayahoga National Park and the MetroParks is a common spot to hike or you can visit Edgewater Park and sit on the beach. For the cultured types, we have the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Museum of Art, or you can take a stroll down to Little Italy for a fancy dinner and gelato. Sports fans will enjoy the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Cleveland Guardians games. And if you really need to get away, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is 15 minutes from downtown.

Residents
Our team of residents come from all over the country, of all different cultural and religious backgrounds. Many are engaged or married, with or without kids. In common, we are all hard working with easygoing personalities. We joke around a lot and spend time together, inside and outside of work.

In summary, we love this program. Every resident I know here ranked Case #1 on their match list which says all you need to know about our program. We are truly proud of our setup.

Highlights

• Resident culture which blends hard work ethic with easygoing personalities.​
• Resident-driven program.​
• Extensive clinic, dentoalveolar, and sedation experience.​
• Attendings with private practice experience.​
• Limited Med School and Gen Surg time.​
• Strong associations with a dental school, a VA, and surrounding OS private practices.​

We are looking forward to meeting you all during interviews!

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Mayo Clinic OMFS
Rochester, MN
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With the 2023-2024 application deadlines approaching, we wanted to provide an update to our program overview! As always, we encourage applicants to come extern and see for themselves. Also, please reach out on Instagram or contact our residents with any questions you have (or shoot us a DM here).

Basic Structure/Schedule:
6-year dual-degree program with 2 residents per year.
*See attached image for outline*

PGY1: Start with 7.5 months OMS and finish the year with 3.5 months medical school. Interns will spend fairly equal time between OR, procedure clinic, and consult clinic. The OMS time is broken down into 4 week rotations with each consultant’s service, allowing you to build trust with consultants and gain autonomy (2 full rotations with each consultant during the year). Intern year is VERY hands on. You start learning the foundations of surgery and are 1st assisting and closing most major cases. Midway through intern year, many interns are operating on Leforts, open joints, performing tracheotomies, comfortable with all impacted 3rds, placing implants, etc. Usually the intern is the primary operator for the 2nd/3rd OR. Emphasis is on training/education and the pager is held by our NP/PAs during the day so interns don’t scrub out to see consults or check on floor patients. Intern year ends and medical school starts at the end of February.

PGY2: Continue at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (top-tier medical school). During medical school selective weeks (every couple months) we return to OMS. Step 1 is taken Nov/Dec before clerkships start in January. No call responsibility unless on OMS service. Receive stipend throughout all of medical school (see website for exact amount), along with an OMS scholarship towards med school tuition. Residents are welcome to come back to help in the OR or clinic on days off or non-mandatory med school classes.

PGY3: Complete medical school clerkships in November of 3rd year (we only spend 20 months in medical school). Remaining 7 months of this year are on OMS. Also have 1 week of Dermsurg, 1 week of Occuloplastics, and an excellent 1 week microvascular surgery course mixed in.

PGY4: 6 weeks of OMS. 5 months of anesthesia with 1 month dedicated to peds, 6 months of general surgery subdivided into 6 weeks of Plastics and SICU along with 3 months of endocrine surgery - primarily working in the neck with thyroids/parathyroid (no butts and guts).

PGY5: 4 weeks vascular surgery, 5 weeks trauma surgery, 4 weeks transplant surgery, and 6 week OMS trauma rotation in Portland or Puerto Rico (resident choice), 1 week cleft mission trip to Central America with Dr. Viozzi, remainder of the year on OMS. *We receive 2 years of ACGME credit.

PGY6: Entire 12 months OMS (total of 40 months OMS experience during residency).

Facilities:
All facilities are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Mayo is comprised of primarily 2 areas: “Downtown" and St. Mary's Hospital which are less than a mile apart and have continuous free shuttles between. Our consultation clinic and procedural clinic are Downtown in connected buildings. We operate out of St. Mary's Hospital and our inpatients stay here in the same unit, making rounding as efficient as possible. Mayo Clinic is consistently ranked as the #1 hospital in the country and the world - top of the line facilities, equipment, and staff (not to mention how efficient the overall Mayo system functions).

Consultation Clinic:
We wear suits (Mayo tradition) for consult clinic. We typically only do new consults and follow-ups here. Occasionally some small biopsies and nasopharyngeal scopes. Due to the nature of Mayo Clinic, many of our patients travel from across the country and world giving us a very broad range of clinical profiles.

Procedure/outpatient Gonda clinic:
Our clinic is very similar to a private practice style. Typical schedule has ~7 sedations in the AM and ~8 local anesthetics in the PM every weekday. Due to volume, the resident in clinic will perform both consult and treatment of patients the same day (unless patient needs more extensive pre-op planning or OR). If there are two residents in the clinic, the upper level resident will run the sedation and split the case with the intern/junior resident when possible. Most 5th and 6th year residents feel very comfortable with all 3rds and allow the intern to do at least half if not all of the case unless they are falling behind. Consultant typically hangs out in the workroom and just says hi to patients unless consultant from another department comes for a procedure. Procedures include typical dentoalveolar like 3rds, implants, sinus lifts, grafting, biopsies, expose and bonds, etc. We have 3 heavily-equipped procedure rooms fully staffed with surgical techs. Sedations will have 3 techs in room with 2 assisting, and local anesthetics will have 2 assistants (this allows resident to go room to room performing procedures efficiently). We have multiple nurses that help to pre-op and recover patients after sedations. Residents are able to focus solely on consulting patients and performing procedures (no scut-work, breaking down or setting up involved). Residents regularly finish the program having done 400-500 IV sedations in OMS clinic (with ~800 including general anesthetics), placing ~300-400 implants, and proficient with all 3rd molars and implant cases. On Wednesday mornings, we schedule pediatric patients, providing residents even more experience with sevo breath downs, toddler IVs, and anything that comes with pediatric anesthesia in the outpatient practice setting. The world is your oyster with the outpatient clinic; some pursue more or less of the above-stated numbers depending on their post-graduate plans.

OR Scope:
We are a full-scope program with excellent numbers for dentoalveolar, orthognathic, TMJ, infections, benign/malignant pathology, reconstruction, and trauma. We have 2 start ORs 5 days a week and often get a 3rd room.

A very unique part of our program is the quantity/quality of TMJ procedures such as arthroscopies (all levels) and total joint replacements. Upper level residents become proficient in performing total joint replacements on their own. To give perspective, one of last year’s chiefs performed 99 open joint procedures, including 65 total joint replacements during his 6th year (This is not including the few dozen scopes that he did as well).

All of our orthognathic cases are planned virtually with no labwork. Assistants obtain scans, so in terms of planning we are able to focus mostly on the VSP. We perform a lot of traditional orthognathic cases as well as jaw cases on craniofacial patients and maxillomandibular advancement for OSA. Residents are very hands on with all cases getting to do at least half of the case or more. Each consultant uses different technique for their cases providing residents with a broader skillset.

We are the primary service for our free flaps and commonly perform trachs, fibulas, radial forearms, ALTs, scapulas, and parotids. Our fibulas and scapulas are all planned by VSP and we use custom cut guides and plates. While we do a lot of oncology and reconstruction, there is very little scut work and the overall efficiency of the Mayo system and allied health staff puts busy work to a minimum. Nurses do all of the flap checks and there is no in-house call. Upper level residents that have interest in H&N have the opportunity to raise flaps, perform neck dissections, ablations, and do the micro as we do NOT have fellows. We perform all flaps with a 2-team approach so we regularly get done around 2-3pm. All residents will be comfortable with tracheotomies and trach management.

We are not heavy on trauma but as a level 1 trauma center we get trauma from the community as well as Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Most trauma comes from MVCs, assaults, farm accidents, and ATV/snowmobile accidents. We typically have a few GSW and several panfacial fractures per year on top of plenty of mandible/midface fractures, and lacs. Fifth year residents go to Portland or Puerto Rico for a 6 week trauma rotation (covered by Mayo). Trauma numbers are easily obtained without this rotation, it is simply supplemental.

We do alveolar clefts, distractions, and orthognathics on craniofacial patients but we do not do primary cleft lip or palate or cranial vault. We are part of the cleft/craniofacial clinic here that meets regularly which provides good experience treatment planning. Cosmetics is limited here as it is not a big interest or expertise of our consultants. Most of our experience will come on our plastics rotation where we gain exposure to typical full body and facial cosmetic cases.

Resident Schedule:
Scheduling is based on the Mayo mentorship model where interns are assigned to a consultant for 4 weeks and rotate through each consultant's service twice before med school. Typical schedule will be 1-3 days per week in the consultation clinic, procedure clinic, and OR. Residents round in the AM and PM on patients who are under the care of the consultant they are following. Senior residents usually spend ~3 months at a time with each consultants service. Chief residents are able to tailor and format their schedule to their interests (for example, last year one chief performed 99 open joint procedures and 12 flaps, the other did 100+ flaps and ~20 open joints).

Residents of all levels have great autonomy and get excellent hands-on surgical experience. Staff is great about letting us do whatever we are comfortable with while still having oversight and back up as needed.

Call:
All call is home call. There is an OMS call room at the hospital if needed. Interns take the vast majority of first call throughout the year with an upper level resident on second call. Upper levels take second call split equally between all upper levels on service. We are always on call for our inpatients, post op calls, hospital consults, and ED tooth call (infections and dentoalveolar trauma). There is no GPR and we are the only service with dental training that takes call, so all tooth calls come to us. The ED is very good about only calling us if there is CT confirmed abscess to be drained. They don’t call us for odontogenic pain/cellulitis very often. No extractions or arch bars in the ED. Typically interns rotate call q2 on weekdays and every other weekend (resulting in super weekend for whoever is off) for the first portion of intern year, then adjust to a lighter schedule when the 3rd years return to OMS after completion of med school in November.

We take full facial trauma every 3rd week, split equally with ENT and plastics. Whatever "from pleura to dura” comes in during that week is ours. Interns typically take trauma call every other day during that week.

Didactics:
Usually there are 3 conferences per week (both virtual and in-person), in the mornings between rounding and the OR. Both staff and residents present at conferences covering a wide range of topics. We also have weekly conferences with the dental specialties (prosth, perio, ortho) at Mayo including an orthognathic and ‘complex dental’ conference. There is a monthly pathology conference reviewing cases with the head/neck pathology experts at Mayo. Residents are also provided numerous resources for self-directed learning including textbooks, SCORE subscriptions, etc.

Consultants:

• Kevin Arce MD DMD: H&N fellowship trained at Legacy Emmanuel, Division Chair
  • Practice is primarily benign and malignant pathology and recon. Also does a good amount of zygomatic implants.
• Jonathan Fillmore MD DMD, Program Director
  • Practice is primarily arthroscopies and arthroscopic procedures, total joint replacements, orthognathics, and dentoavleolar.
• James Van Ess MD DDS
  • Practice is primarily orthognathics and dentoalveolar (tons of implants).
• Christopher Viozzi MD DDS
  
  • Practice is primarily alveolar clefts, orthognathics, surgical management of OSA, some TMJ, and dentoalveolar
• Kyle Ettinger MD DDS: H&N fellowship trained at UF Jax, Associate Program Director
  • Practice is primarily benign and malignant pathology and complex microvascular recon.

*All are full-time with no private or faculty practice so they are fully committed to resident training*

We have an OMS NP and PA who during the day see ED and hospital consults, manage inpatients, take patient phone calls, see post ops and coordinate care. We also have an NP dedicated to the H&N practice that sees patients in the clinic and assists in the OR. Each consultant has an ‘extender’ to help their service run smoothly from an admin standpoint (again, so residents can focus on surgery and not any scut/paper work).

Staff are very nice and approachable. We regularly go for happy hour and golf with our consultants. Residents get along and have a great team mentality. Routinely have get togethers outside of work. We are the opposite of a malignant program. Our program is also pretty evenly balanced between single vs. married residents, and multiple residents have children. Come extern and see for yourself!

Rochester:
Rochester is located in Southeastern Minnesota roughly 1 hour south of Minneapolis/St Paul. Rochester’s population is 115,000 and continues to grow as part of a $5.6 billion investment into Mayo Clinic and Rochester. Rochester is centered around Mayo Clinic. It’s not going to have the night life or as many entertainment options as living in a big city. But cost of living is low here and traffic is nonexistent. They have been adding more and more new restaurants and breweries. Mayo Clinic has their own credit union and will give mortgage loans to residents despite coming in with large student loan debt so all of the residents in our program buy homes or townhomes (the rates are also better than other ‘doctor loans’). The housing market has been very favorable to sellers. Rochester has many golf courses and a nice country club that gives residents an extremely good deal so many residents that golf join.

Additional Perks:

• Relatively high stipend, stipend during medical school, generous food money, textbooks, SCORE subscription, Mayo issued Laptop, access to Mayo Surgical Skills lab including microscope for microvascular practice.
• Two attendance trips of your choosing paid by Mayo during residency - one of which can be international. (This does not include the Puerto Rico/Portland trip which is also paid by Mayo.)
• If presenting at a meeting, Mayo always covers travel, hotel, food, and registration.
• Excellent staff and advanced practice provider support allows residents to focus on patient care and training.
• Free garage parking at all Mayo facilities.
• Access to DAHLC (Mayo Employee Gym) for free during medical school, and a very low cost as a resident.
• Health insurance and other benefits for entire 6 years (including medical school). There is also a Mayo Reimbursement Fund that is replenished yearly which residents can use for any dental and vision costs - Most don’t use the entirety of these funds and they can be used for loupes (many residents graduate with multiple pairs of free loupes).
• Mayo GME also gives 4 weeks of vacation along with generous paternity/maternity leave. Check website to learn more about this, along with other benefits for spouses and children.

Medical School:
Excellent education, pass/fail, Step 1 taken before December of 2nd year. Med school will pay for your UW subscription for both Step 1 and 2. Will be gifted a custom 3M Littman stethoscope at the start of med school. We continue to receive stipend during medical school (see website for exact amount). We also receive scholarships from the medical school and the OMS department making the overall cost ~$30k/year. Residents typically take out some loans for COL.

Recent Graduates:
Most graduates enter private practice. However, other recent graduates have matched into H&N and cosmetic fellowships.

Externships:
As an extern we strive to give you exposure to multiple aspects of our program, including meeting all of the consultants. You will scrub in and assist in the OR and outpatient procedure clinic following the residents/consultants. Externs typically visit for 1 week at a time however longer externships are welcomed.
Externship Application

Website:
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency, M.D.-O.M.S. (Minnesota) - Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education - Mayo Clinic

Come extern and follow us on IG to learn more! @mayoclinicoms

 

[J-stripper]

I’ve heard Oklahoma is switching to a 6-year. Can anyone confirm this or offer more information?

 

[odontoblaster90210]

Overview for the Rutgers OMFS program (2023 Update)

The program provides a well-rounded full scope experience that is shaped by the individual resident's desires and interests. Residents are held at high standards and expected to lead clinical decisions as well as perform with clinical efficiency and skill as early as PGY-1. Interested applicants are encouraged to participate in an externship. You can also find additional information regarding the Rutgers OMFS residency program on Instagram page and website.



The Program has a 4-year track and a 6-year integrated MD track with New Jersey Medical School in addition to having 4 non-categorical interns.

Scope:

• We are full scope OMFS. OR cases include dentoalveolar, orthognathics, surgical cosmetics (one of the very few programs that perform surgical cosmetics in the country), hard and soft tissue reconstruction, any and all maxillofacial trauma, TMJ, and ablative head and neck cancer and pathology (in conjunction with ENT team that harvests, anastomoses, and manages postoperative monitoring of free flaps)
• Craniofacial cases include primary cleft lip and palate repairs (one of a minority of programs that do this), alveolar cleft bone grafts
• Lingual nerve and Inferior Alveolar Nerve exploration and repairs (Dr. Ziccardi is one of the busiest surgeons in the country in regards to these procedures)
• Dentoalveolar (high volume of cases from University Hospital Clinic, Dental School Clinic, and Faculty Practice)
• Orthognathic Surgery
• TMJ surgery including arthroscopy, arthroplasty and total joint replacements
• Maxillofacial trauma (high volume due to University Hospital being a busy level 1 trauma center)
• Maxillofacial reconstruction (i.e. soft tissue local flaps, large bone grafts with autogenous harvest, alveolar distraction osteogenesis, vestibuloplasty, fibula debulking for dental implants, trigeminal nerve microsurgery, etc.)
• Benign Pathology
• All ablative aspects of pre-malignant and malignant head and neck cancer including tracheostomy, neck dissection, full oral cavity cancer and salivary gland ablative procedures with Dr. Shanti
• Non-surgical and Surgical Cosmetics (*Based on resident interest* one of the busiest programs in the country in regards to this - ability to perform surgical cosmetic procedures in dental school and in OR, along with full range of non-surgical procedures offered such as botox/filler/PRP injections/dermabrasion/chemical peels)
• Dental Implants and associated procedures: OMFS residents combined place 600+ implants a year. It is very common to graduate with 300+ implants placed, full scope of procedures performed (GBR, autogenous block grafting, free gingival grafts, connective tissue grafting, all on X procedures with zygomatic and pterygoid implants, immediate loading of prostheses, sinus augmentation). Dental Students and prosthodontic residents work up many cases for surgical management
• Sedations: Performed 3 days a week at University Hospital & 5 days a week at Dental School. Most graduates have between 400-500 anesthesia cases by graduation

Location:

· University Hospital is our main campus in Newark, NJ. University Hospital is a busy level one trauma center offering a large pool of trauma patients consisting of assaults, GSWs, MVC, and work-related injuries.
· Most of the residents live in the surrounding lively upcoming neighborhoods including Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken, Edgewater, suburban towns and even New York City.


· Car required
OR:

• We have reserved guaranteed block time 4 days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday), along with 1 Wednesday a month. We mostly operate 5 days/week (or more if needed) with added-on traumas or elective cases.
• We predominantly operate at University Hospital, but elective cases are also done on a 1-2 times/week in Newark Beth Israel in Newark (~15 minutes from University Hospital) and St. Peters Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ (~35 minutes from university hospital). Chiefs and/or seniors also attend additional orthognathic cases at John F Kennedy hospital in Edison (~20 minutes from Newark) with Dr. Aziz weekly
• All this block time means that we have the case load to fill it consistently. The program far exceeds the CODA program requirements in all categories.
• Takeaway: A lot of OR time (practically daily), diversity in cases

Clinic:
· Multiple with large volume and wide scope
1. University Hospital clinic:
a. Daily, average of 50 patients/day
b. Average of 3 residents see and treat all patients, with attending supervision
c. 4-5 IV sedation cases booked for 3 times/week, run by mid level or senior resident
d. Dentoalveolar, infections, traumas, pathology, pre and post ops
2. Dental School Clinic (located right next to university hospital, the buildings are connected):
a. Multidisciplinary practice with patients who come from outside referral, self-referral, referral from other dental school departments (general, orthodontics, pediatrics, oral medicine, dental student clinic)
b. Residents see and treat all patients, with attending supervision
c. IV sedations, procedures under LA +/- nitrous (dentoalveolar, sinus lifts, pre-prosthetic, implants, biopsies, botox, fillers), consults, pre-op, post-op, etcs
d. No responsibility to oversee dental student clinic
e. Daily: assigned 1 PGY-1 and 1 senior resident
PGY 1: Average of 15 pts/day
Senior resident:
AM: 5 IV sedations daily
PM: average 5 pts/afternoon sessions daily or an elective bigger case (see bullet points below for examples)
f. Extra OMFS chairs and IV sedations rooms can be used by residents not assigned to the dental school for elective cases. Examples cases include:
i. Multi-unit implants, All-on-4s, zygomatics implants, pterygoid implants, blepharoplasty, face lifts, lip lifts, chemical peels , various bone graft (split thickness, ramus block graft, etc)
g. Technology: Multiple implant systems available, 3D printing for in house guide making
3. Faculty practice in Newark
a. Dr. Ziccardi and Dr. Shanti
b. 2-3 times/week, half days
c. Attending clinic staffed by 2-3 residents
4. Faculty Practice in New Brunswick
a. Dr. Adachie: 4 times/week, staffed by 1 PGY-1
b. Dr. Shanti: 1 times/week, staffed by Chief Resident

Call:
· Midface alternates every third day between OMFS/Plastics/ENT
· Only at University Hospital (in house, without having to travel between sites)
· Dental call is covered by the GPR residents every day
· Averages to 4 times/month (split between PGY-1 class of 7 - 3 cat, 4 non cat- and mid levels).
· $25 stipend/call + extra $ (~$200/month for spending in cafeteria)



6 Year: (1 resident/year)

Highlights: (compare these to other programs)
· Only 14 months of med school (clerkships, no didactics)
· Get paid all 6 years of residency
o Average of 2 calls/months while in medical school unless excused during some rotations
· Pay in-state tuition (~$32,000/year) for 2 years of med school
o Tip: always ask programs how many years of tuition need to be paid, sometimes it is more than the years you attend
· 46 months of OMFS
· 6 months of general surg
· You complete whole intern year before clerkships, this allows you to navigate through clerkships with an advantage, and have adequate experience taking OMFs call when scheduled
· Note: Step 1 (Pass/Fail) is taken prior to the start of the program

Year 1: Intern Year
o 2 months at New Brunswick Faculty practice + Saint Peters OR
o 2 months at the dental school
o Rest of time is spent at UH clinic/OR
o Residents are paid at a PGY1 level

Year 2: MS3 Med school clerkships
o Average of 2 calls/months while in medical school clerkship except Medicine rotation
o Residents are paid at a PGY2 level

Year 3: Anesthesia/Medical school/Mid-level resident


o From June to August, residents will complete their first 3 months of Anesthesia training as a full anesthesia resident. Residents are responsible for intubations, running OR cases, taking anesthesia call during this time.
o From September to November, resident will complete 4th year NJMS requirements including 1 month of emergency medicine, 1 month of SICU, and 2 weeks of PM&R, (Completing 14.5 months of medical school).

o Step 2 usually taken early this year
o December to June, resident return back to OMFS on service rotation for 7 months. During this time, the resident will be responsible for IV sedation cases in University Hospital outpatient clinic, increased exposure to OR cases with expanded roles, and placement of implants
o Residents are paid at a PGY3 level

Year 4: General surgery/ Mid-level resident


o From July to April, resident will have 6 months of general surgery rotation as a 1st year general surgery resident. All general surgery rotations are completed in University Hospital.
o During this 9 month period, residents will also complete another 3 months of Anesthesia (total of 6 months).
o From April to June, residents return back to OMFS service with mid-level responsibilities.

o Residents are paid at a PGY4 level



Year 5: Senior


o Senior residents go through 2 month blocks between being the hospital senior, dental school, and float senior
o Hospital senior is responsible for IV sedations in the outpatient clinic during the week, increased role in the operating room including primary assist, and placement of implants
o Dental school senior is responsible for IV sedations in the dental school outpatient clinic as well as implant treatment

o Take a third of back up call/month. Average 1 primary call every 3 weeks
o Residents are paid at a PGY5 level



Year 6: Chief

o Chief residents rotate between attending/hospital teams in 2 month blocks. Each team has set attendings where the assigned chief will treatment plan, primary assist in the OR, and follow up on operated patients
o Chief residents will have increased exposure to implant cases with increased complexity including all of 4-6, full mouth rehabilitation cases
o Residents are paid at a PGY 6 level with a chief stipend



4 Year:
(2 residents/year)






Year 1: Intern year
o 2 months at New Brunswick Faculty practice + Saint Peters OR
o 2 month at the dental school
o Rest of time is spent at UH clinic/OR
o Residents are paid at a PGY1 level
o Later in the year, the two 4 year categorical resident reports for 6 months of Anesthesia
o Residents are paid at a PGY1 level



Year 2: Anesthesia/ off service rotations




o March to August Anesthesia training as a full anesthesia resident. Residents are responsible for intubations, running OR cases, taking anesthesia call during this time. No responsibilities to the OMFS service when completing off-service rotations
o August to May off service rotation which includes, 2 months of medicine, 2 months of trauma, 2 months of SICU, 1 month of Plastics, 1 month of ENT


o Residents are paid at PGY2 level

Year 3: Senior




o Senior residents go through 2 month blocks between being the hospital senior, dental school, and float senior similar to residents in year 5 of the integrated MD program
o Hospital senior is responsible for IV sedations in the outpatient clinic during the week, increased role in the operating room including primary assist, and placement of implants
o Dental school senior is responsible for IV sedations in the dental school outpatient clinic as well as implant treatment

o Take a third of back up call/month. Average 1 primary call every three weeks

Year 4: Chief

o 


Chief residents rotate between attending/hospital teams in 2 month blocks. Each team has set attending where the assigned chief will treatment plan, primary assist in the OR, and follow up on operated patients
o Chief residents will have increased exposure to implant cases with increased complexity including all of 4-6, full mouth rehabilitation cases
o Residents are paid at a PGY 4 level with a chief stipend

Faculty:

Full Time Faculty
o Vincent B. Ziccardi, DDS, MD, FACS (Chair): Full scope OMFS, Nerve repair specialist, Cleft repair (Head of the craniofacial team), orthognathics, benign pathology, trauma, cosmetics


o Rabie Shanti, DMD, MD (Director): Fellowship trained in head and neck oncologic surgery/microvascular reconstruction at Louisiana State University Health Sciences (Shreveport). Oral Cancer, Oral Precancerous Lesions, Benign And Malignant Jaw Tumors, Salivary Gland Tumors, Osteoradionecrosis Of The Jaw, Medication Related Osteonecrosis Of The Jaw, And Maxillofacial Reconstructive Surgery. Rutgers OMFS alum.
o Hani Braidy DMD: Full scope OMFS, orthognathics, trauma, Benign pathology, Implants ( Along with Dr. Zweig runs the implant program)
o Barry Zweig, DDS: Head of the implant program at Rutgers, extensive experience in full scope OMFS
o 
Salvatore Napoli DMD: Undergraduate clinic director of the dental school clinic, full scope OMFS
o Anayo Adachie, DMD, MD: Full scope OMFS, orthognathics (Posnick fellowship), benign pathology, trauma
o Chang min R Yim, DMD: trained in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and served honorably in the U.S. Army. Full scope practice
o Mostafa Alwakeel, DMD: Interested and devoted to evidenced based dentoalveolar procedures including bony and soft tissue augmentation

Part time Faculty
O In addition to staffing our predoctoral and resident clinics, many of our part time faculty bring OR cases to the program from their private offices covering the full scope of our specialty.
o Benefit of various perspectives from large range of faculty with many decades of practical private practice experience
o Dr. Shahid Aziz, DMD, MD, FACS :Full scope OMS Founder of Smile Bangladesh providing cleft surgery to the Bangladesh community twice per year bringing Rutgers senior and chief residents. Operates at University Hospital ~2 times/month, and residents attend participate with orthognathic cases at JFK Medical Center in Edison, NJ weekly
o Pam Alberto, DMD
o Gerard Begley, DMD
o Mohammed Boukheir, DMD
o Emil Cappetta DMD
o Sung Cho DMD
o Husham Edani DMD
o Larry Gorzelnik DMD, MD
o Nancy Herbst DMD
o John Mullins DMD
o Victor Petriella DMD
o Hugo Quinones DMD
o Mohammed Rabah DMD
o Ignatius Scalia DMD
o David Serratelli DMD
o Imad Tamimi DMD
o Judith Tuchman DMD
o Marie Woke, DMD


Program Culture: 
Busy program with high expectations at all levels. There is a strong emphasis on didactic education and clinical learning. Residents are required to review past and current literature on all treatment that is rendered to patients. There is increasing advocacy and support for resident wellness.

Scope:

Full scope with large volume for most procedures. Many orthognathic cases per year and total joint replacements. First hand nerve repair experience. >250-300 implants placed by the end of residency. Cosmetics (based on resident interest including rhinoplasty, rhytidectomies, injectables, blepharoplasties, fat transfer). Large volume of benign and malignant pathology cases with resections and reconstructions. University hospital is the only state run level 1 trauma center in New Jersey.
Fellowships:

 Residents interested in continuing their training with a fellowship match from Rutgers OMFS. In the previous years, residents matched into their desired fellowships including microvascular with Dr. Ghali, orthognathic with Dr. Tucker, microvascular with Dr. B.J. Kim, and full body cosmetic fellowships
Alumi:

 Residents that graduate from Rutgers OMFS pursue fellowships and careers in both private practice and academics.
Boards:

 All graduate residents in the past 10 years have passed the OMFS boards.


Salary/Benefits:

· Education Allowance: $1300 per year

· Meals: $25 per shift with an improved process to request meal money when your shift goes over 12 hours

· Orientation payment: 1 week in late June, $1300

· Chief Stipend: $3,400

· Extra on-call pay: $50 for each extra on-call shift. Here are the new amounts:

o 1st additional on-call duty: $200
o 2nd additional on-call duty: $300
o 3rd additional on-call duty: $350
o 4th and subsequent on-call duty: $400
· Leave: Expanded the definition of bereavement leave

· Mental health: A working group with CIR and Rutgers to discuss improving mental health care access for house staff


Thank you for reviewing the overview of the program. Again the best way for you to learn about the program and get a good feel for it and the residents and faculty is by doing an externship. If you plan to do an externship, please reach out to us via Instagram or program coordinator on recommendations for where to stay. Let me know if you have any questions. 


Feel free to get in contact with us via our Instagram page, or emailing our program coordinator Kisha ([email protected]) who can provide you with our contact information.


Rutgers OMFS Residents

 

[oshtor]

MARYLAND OMFS Update:



Noticed that there hasn’t been an update for Maryland for a few years. Given how helpful this thread was to me on the interview trail I figured I would do my due diligence to contribute to it.

To give a little background, I went to dental school at Maryland and I am currently finishing up my first year out of 6. So everything you read here is based on what I have learned about the program as a dental student as through the completion of my intern year. I applied to six-year programs only and knew I wanted to go a program that was broad scope to give me as much exposure as possible. I shadowed as much as I could at Maryland while I was a dental student and went on externships to similar scope programs like Jacksonville, LSU-shrev, OHSU, Alabama, and UT Houston. I went on 20+ interviews and when making my rank list, I based my decision on the scope of a program, the quality of the faculty, location, and resident culture.



Program Layout: The biggest change in the program since the last update is the change in the 6 year program layout as the entire medical school curriculum went under a big change at so the OMFS program was changed as well with coordination with the med school administration. I attached a picture of the overall layout of the 6 year program and it looks confusing so I will do my best to explain it.

6-year program.

Year 1:

July till the middle of October you spend as a full-time intern on service. During this time you will be second assistant in the OR and the more they trust you the more you get to do. In my first 4 months I was able to do part of a neck dissection, make osteotomies, bend plates and recon bars, and plate a few fractures. Interns are also responsible for seeing patients our hospital clinic where you will chuck teeth, take biopsies, and in one case I did botox injections into the masseter. An intern is assigned to the dental school across street as well where you will get a chance to do surgical extractions. If there is not a patient, the OMS faculty at the school will help find cases for you to do from the patients that come in through the urgent care. Lastly, you will be our UMOMSA clinic across also at the dental school which is where our attendings see most their clinic patients. Each attending has their own day at the UMOMSA clinic and you will see new referrals for orthognathic, TMJ, cleft lip/palate, oncology. You see follow ups here and occasionally do procedures like take biopsies or laser ablations.

Med school: In the middle of October, you join the MS1s as they start their second course. You are a full-time medical student. There are lectures that are non-mandatory from 8-10 and discussion sections you have to go to from 10-12. You do community service for an hour once a week and see patients with a preceptor one afternoon a month. You have one research project due before you take step 1. Most people just use one of the research projects they are working on with an attending anyway to satisfy this. While in the med-school you work approx. 24hrs a week on service. This is done by either taking call on a Saturday or working in the afternoon clinics after your med school classes. You split this with your co-resident so one person will take a call day and the other will work in the afternoons. The call will end up being around 1-2 times a month. Everyone is very understanding that med school is the priority and if you have an obligation or an upcoming exam that will take priority over working an afternoon or taking call. This time working ends up being very manageable. At the end of May after med school goes on a break you return to service as a full-time intern.

4 year track: Same responsibilities during intern year, the only difference is you do approximately 3 months of internal medicine rotation during November- January and then return on service until July.

Year 2:

• 6 year: This year is where you get a lot more dentoalveolar exposure. During July you are fully on service and are there to help get the new interns up to speed. You do not take primary call and you are scheduled to go to the OR or the dental school to do surgical extractions and alveoloplasties under local/ nitrous. In August, you return to med school where you go to classes in the morning and go to the dental school where you are scheduled patients in the afternoons. You see your own patients and are not responsible to oversee the pre-doc students. In March, you are off medical school and get dedicated time to study for step 1. Once you finish step at the end of march from April till July you are on anesthesia.
• 4 Year: This is your general surgery year. You rotate on trauma, vascular surgery, Minimal invasive surgery, SICU, transplant, plastics, and general surgery. You are back on service for approximately 1-2 months during march/ April depending on the order of your rotations.

Year 3:

• 6 year: From July to April you do med school rotations including 8 weeks of pediatrics, 8 weeks OBGYN, 8 weeks of medicine, 4 weeks of psych, 4 weeks of neurology, 4 weeks of family med, and another 4 weeks as a SUB-I on medicine. During this time you are completely off service, you don’t take call, you don’t work in the afternoons. This is the only year you don’t get paid at all. You take Step 2 after April and then you are back on OMFS service for 1-2 months during may and June (you will get paid for this time)
• 4 year: Same as Year 5 of the 6 year track

Year 4:

• 6 year: This is your gen surg year. The first 3 months its affiliated with the med school as a gen surg clerkship/ SUB-I. You get your MD in December and then continue your general surgery where you do the same rotations on trauma, vascular surgery, Minimal invasive surgery, SICU, transplant, plastics, and general surgery. During this year you will also take step 3 before returning to OMFS service.
• 4 year: Same as Year 6 of the 6 year track

Year 5/6 or 3/4:

• This is your senior year on service. In both tracks you are completely on service the entire year. The year is split into 4 months on each of the 3 different rotations between the oncology team, the house team, and the dental school. As a senior you also cover call at the sinai hospital which is approximately a 20minute drive and we only cover trauma at this hospital (Only facial fractures, no dentoalveolar trauma). Secondary call on non-trauma weeks is split between the seniors.
• House service: This is your bread and butter oral surgery cases. You will go to the OR with the chiefs and attendings for the trauma, orthognathic cases, TMJ cases, benign path, essentially you will help cover all the cases done by our house attendings Dr. Caccamese, Dr. Warburton, and Dr. Wilken. You will also cover the clinics for the House attendings.
• Dental school: Here you spent 4 months with our dental school attendings Dr. Everett and Moustofi who both had successful private practices. Here is where you will do most of your sedations, implants, all-on-x, X-nav, sinus lifts, and 3rds.
• Oncology Service: Here you work very closely with our fellow (s) to treat and manage the oncology patients. We currently have 2 oncology attendings Dr. Lubek and Dr. Dyalram who you will go to the OR with and cover clinics. You split the cases our 2 onc attendings do with the fellow/ fellows. You will partake in all the cases they do from the marginal mandibulectomies and secondary implant placements to the free flaps where you will be apart of both ablation and reconstruction.

Chief Year (6/6 or 4/4):

Chief year you run the house service with your co-chiefs. You take secondary call during the trauma weeks only and go to the operative cases that come in from Sinai hospital. You will finish your graduation requirements within a few months of chief year and you really experience the full volume of Maryland. You will operate a ton this year.

Faculty:



Oncology team: Dr. Lubek, and Dr. Dyalram.

o Dr. Lubek: Highly published, incredibly skilled surgeon with a viscous work ethic. He predominately overseas the fellows and their training. You will work with him as an intern and senior while you are on the oncology team.



o Dr. Dyalram (Program Director): Dr. Dyalram pushes you to get involved and cut, likely the first to put a scalpel in your hand. 2 months into my intern year, she let me do part of the neck dissection. She is invested in mentoring well-rounded surgeons that will continue the Maryland way. She is highly published, proficient surgeon and wonderful educator.



· Dr. Warburton (Chair) Cosmetics and TMJ



o Our new chair of the program. Advocates for his residents. He is one of the Top TMJ surgeons in the world. Very Skilled, extremely efficient, and has a way of making things look easy. He is extremely good at raising money for the program and creative opening new opportunities for the residents. Was originally trained in the UK and reminds most people of James Bond.



· Dr. Caccamese: Pediatric Craniofacial fellowship (Cleft Lip/Palate)

o He is cerebral. One of the most meticulous and focused surgeons I have ever worked with. He does it all. Clefts, Orthognathic, trauma. You name it. He does it. Nothing but respect.



Dr. Wilken: Sleep apnea, orthognathic, trauma

o Our newest attending, graduated from the program in 2021 and a testament to the training at Maryland. He is building his practice, sleep apnea orthognathics, benign pathology, trauma, and dentoalveolar. He is young and extremely talented.



· Dr. Everett, Mostoufi - Sedation/Implants

o Dr. Everett: ran a successful private practice for years. Is our go to guy for dentoalveolar. He will teach anything and everything you want to know about implants and exodontia. Easy going and also happens to have a black belt in karate.



o Dr. Mostoufi: Chief OMFS advocate in the dental school. Is responsible for new sedation rooms, introduction of X-Nav, and has tripled our implant numbers over the past years.



Location:



- 45 minutes from DC



- 30 minutes from Annapolis



- 2 hours from Philadelphia



- 3 hours from New York



- 2 ½ hours from Ocean City



- 3 hours from Deep Creek Lake & Shenandoah National Park



The city is what it is, a city. Know where to go, where not to go, and don’t be an idiot. I went to dental school at Maryland and have honestly enjoyed my time in Baltimore a lot more than I thought I would. There is a ton of hidden gem food spots, farmers markets, recreational sport leagues. There is plenty to do when you are not working. DC is also extremely close only a 45 min drive or an hour train ride.





Culture:



· Maryland is a high volume program. Keyword here is volume because it just doesn't stop. As a result the training is incredible, but the time and commitment is demanding.



· There is a classic hierarchy at Maryland. Interns report to chiefs, chiefs report to attendings. At the end of the day everyone’s goal is to have a smooth service. It will get very busy with over 20 patients on our lists at times. I felt very supported by my co-interns, seniors, and chiefs and attendings. Everyone truly worked as a team and there was not a time where I felt like I couldn’t ask for help. You will have a role each year, and it is important to understand that role to ensure a smooth service.



· Our attendings take pride in the fact that you will be a full scope trained maxillofacial surgeon at the end of your 4-6 years. They have a mentorship program where each resident is paired with a faculty. We have a 100% pass rate on the ABOMS and no one has a hard time finding work coming out of here. If you are interested in pursuing academics, we have a higher track record than most.

 

[Lilrico]

Does anyone have an update about UNC- Chapel Hill?

 

[IndifferentOsteoblast]

Anyone have an update for UT Health San Antonio?

 

[swedishjaw]

Anyone have a most recent update on UCSF, San Francisco? I hear this program has changed a since research days of Kaban and Pogrel.

 

[Dada123]

Hi guys, any information on BU and Tufts??

 

[carabelliscusp]

Anything on Lincoln or NYU?

 

[Flawlesss]

Anything on USC?

 

[IndifferentOsteoblast]

Anything on USC?

Also curious about USC. Their site says they offer both 4 and 6, but they have only one PASS page and program code it seems.

Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC - ADEA PASS® Program

programs.adea.org

 

[GeisingerOMFS1]

Geisinger Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Program

Geisinger OMFS website

Hey guys! Just a quick run down for Geisinger. We serve a population of approximately 1.3 million patients in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Our scope of practice includes dentoalveolar, implants, outpatient anesthesia, orthognathic surgery, obstructive sleep apnea, TMJ (i.e., minimally invasive arthroscopy and total alloplastic joint reconstruction), trauma, benign/malignant pathology, salivary gland surgery (i.e., minimally invasive sialendoscopy and major salivary gland surgery), complex reconstructive surgery (i.e., microvascular surgery and nerve reconstruction) and multidisciplinary secondary cleft and craniofacial surgery.

• Program Director: Paul Covello, MD, DDS, FACS
• Associate Program Director: Raymond P. Shupak, MD, DMD, MBE
• 4 yr program
• 2 categorical, 4 non-categorical
• Two regions that we cover for trauma/non-trauma
• Danville (Central region): 1 hospital
• Wilkes-Barre (NE region): 3 hospitals
• Wide scope: dentoalveolar, trauma, reconstructive, infectious, pathology, TMJ, orthognathic, implants
• Great culture - we all really enjoy working with each other and getting together outside of work, additionally, attendings have an open door policy and communicate directly with all resident levels
• Program director and attendings committed to resident and program growth, education, research opportunities
• You can also check us out on our Instragram: Geisinger.OMFS

We take 4 non-categorical interns for competitive positions every year. Each year, our non-categorical interns have secured numerous interviews and have had successful placement. The last cycle, two of our non-categoricals matched into programs. This year, all of our non-cats have had >5 interviews each.
Let us know as soon as possible your interest in one of these positions by contacting the program coordinator and CC the listed resident for more information. You can also reply to this post with questions. Thank you.

Program Coordinator:
Krystle Goverick
[email protected]
15702143455

Resident:
Emily Ladnier, DMD - PGY1
[email protected]

 

[Gustavo dos Santos]

Does anyone have an update on VCU? It looks like they now have 4 residents per class and took 3 non-cats this year based on their Instagram. Would love more info on this program, but can’t get time off school for another externship

 

[ParklandOMFS]

PARKLAND/UT-SOUTHWESTERN OMFS PROGRAM 2024 UPDATE

We have not had an update since 2017. There have been a few changes to our program since then, and I will do my best to update things as best as I can. This likely won’t go into too much depth with our VA and JPS rotations, but those are both very important with regards to our surgical training. We have added 2 new faculty members: Michael Oh DMD, MD(Parkland alumni from 2021 class) and Patrick Wong DDS, MD (grad of A&M/Baylors program in 2023, craniofacial trained at Oklahoma under Dr. Tiwana – starting summer 2024). We have also added a level 1 trauma center in Dallas that we cover 365 – Dallas Presbyterian Hospital. We do over 400 OR cases per year here and run the head and neck tumor board.

I am going to start with a detailed breakdown by year:


Year 1
July through December – 4mo OMFS, 1mo ENT, 1mo anesthesia
Day 1 of residency, you will be suturing lacs, providing botox, and performing a plethora of dentoalveolar cases in our outpatient clinic. You will also be taking call on a q6/7 basis, holding sticks in the OR with the chance of performing the procedure, and likely closing most of the cases with the guidance of your 5th year. Interns will also rotate to help cover our private/faculty clinic, where they will assist in working up orthognathic cases and helping attendings with any other pre-/post-op patients.

You will get your hands dirty on ENT, helping stitch legs up after free flaps and removing some tonsils. There is no time spent in the ENT clinic as all will be in the OR. On Anesthesia, you will be getting used to intubating patients in the OR and placing IVs.

January through June – 5mo of Medical School, 1mo OMFS
You will be taking classes with the medical students during the organ blocks for the entire academic year, minus when they are on summer breaks (June and July – go back on service). Some residents spend their time during these months working on some research and going to AAOMS/ACOMS to present their findings. We have a strong showing at research conferences due to financial help and support from our faculty. More on this in the research section below.

You will be going back to OMFS for June while the medical students enjoy their summer breaks. We also send 2 of our categorical interns to JPS for ~2-3 weeks during this month as their non-cats leave. This is an incredibly high-yield experience as you are taking primary call on a q2/3 basis and are running their outpatient clinic. If time permits, you can pop into the OR with the OMFS team but running the OPC will be the primary focus.

Year 2
July through December – 1mo OMFS, 5mo Med School
You are on service in July with the incoming interns and the newly appointed 5s and 6s. You will be taking buddy call for ~2 weeks with the new interns and non-cats as you will help get them acclimated to hospital and clinic life.

Once August hits, you will be going back to medical school to finish up your pre-clerkships. This lasts from August until Christmas break, which is when your dedicated Step 1 studey time begins.

January through June – 1mo OMFS, 5mo Med School
You have ~6 weeks of dedicated Step 1 study time (2 weeks of Christmas break, 4 weeks of January). It is expected for you to take Step 1 before the deadline is over. Most residents tend to take the exam early so they can have a little bit of time off before clerkships beginning, but this differs with each person.

From February until June, you will be completing clerkships in Neurology, Internal Medicine, and General Surgery. You will take the associated shelf exam at the end of each block with all of the other medical students. During the 2 months of Gen Surg clerkship, 1 month is spent on OMFS (paid included).

Year 3
July through December – 6mo Med School
You will continue with clerkships and complete Psychiatry, Ambulatory Medicine, Ob/Gyn, and Pediatrics. No time will be spent on service during this time, and you continue to take the shelf at the end of each block.

January through June – 3mo OMFS, 2mo Med School, 1mo Anesthesia
January will consist of your last, official clerkship before preparing for Step 2, which is family medicine. It is expected for you to complete Step 2 between the end of this clerkship and before you graduate in May. You will spend ~2.5- months on OMFS during this time as well. You will also complete an elective in both Emergency Medicine (4 weeks - does not count towards clerkship requirements but is mandatory Med School elective) and anesthesia (4 weeks - prepping you to begin your full experience during PGY-4). You will receive your MD in May and will have General Surgery orientation during the last 2 weeks of June to help prepare you for the PGY-4 year.

Year 4
July through June – 1mo OMFS, 5mo Anesthesia, 6mo General Surgery
You will do some sort of combination of 6 months of general surgery, 5 months of anesthesia, and 1 month of OMFS. This will be your hands-on anesthesia training where you are running your own ORs and sedations. Step 3 will typically be taken some time during this year as well. You are rewarded 1 year of ACGME-accredited post-graduate training needed to obtain your medical license. For those who need a 2nd year per your state’s policy, we can get signed off for this as we have a good relationship with our General Surgery department. No Parkland alumni have ever had issues obtaining their medical license.

Year 5
July through June – 12mo OMFS
12 months on OMFS. You rotate on different blocks – 10 weeks at the VA, 10 weeks at JPS, and 30 weeks covering Parkland/UTSW/Children’s/Presbyterian. During those 30 weeks, you are helping cover these sites with 2 other PGY-5s (3 of you in total).

Year 6
July through June – 12mo OMFS
12 months on OMFS. You rotate as being chief of each service, which includes 10 weeks VA, 20 weeks JPS (with 1 other chief), 10 weeks “private” (CMC/UTSW), and 10 weeks Parkland. The 2 chiefs who cover CMC/UTSW and Parkland will also help cover Presbyterian together and alternate depending on the day of the week.

Total:
35 months on OMFS
1 month on ENT
7 months on anesthesia (5 months running room independently in 4th year and 2 months as medical students)
6 months General Surgery
23 months in medical school.


*One important thing to note is that we are a very top-heavy program. The majority of operating room cases will involve the 5s/6s splitting a case if it is bilateral, and typically the 6 doing the case if it is unilateral (depends on time of year and chief’s mood lol). Attendings will be extremely hands-off during cases and only scrub in either during an extremely critical portion or if you need guidance. Interns will get their hands dirty for simpler cases, like infections and dentoalveolar, with some helping cut orthognathic cases, but this isn’t common*


THE NUMBERS AND OUR SCOPE
CODA Procedure Count
Trauma – 982
Pathology – 1,275
Orthognathic – 440
Reconstruction/Cosmetics – 1,780
Others – 3,606

Detailed Breakdown
Mandible fractures – 506
Orbital fractures – 115
Mid/Upper Face fractures – 237
TMJ surgery – 224
Nerve Repairs – 158
Cleft lip/palate (ABGs included) – 26
Rhinoplasty – 95
Blepharoplasty – 21
Tracheostomy – 110
Implants – 1,296
Sedations - ~800
Infections – too many to count

CODA requires each chief to graduate with 175 “major” OR procedures
During the 2022/2023 academic year, our chiefs graduated with 1,616 each (8,083 total)

OR block times:
Parkland – 3 days
CMC – 2 days
UTSW – 2 days
JPS – 7 days
Presbyterian – 2 days
VA – 1 day
*and a plethora of add-on/urgent cases*


OUR FACULTY (full-time unless listed otherwise)
Program Director: Thomas Schlieve DDS, MD (Main campus; maxillofacial oncology and reconstructive surgery (MORS)-trained)
Program Chair: Rawle Philbert DDS (Main campus; general OMS)
Richard Finn DDS (VA; implants, facial cosmetics)
John Zuniga DMD, PhD (Main campus; TMJ, microneurosurgery)
Aya Hamao-Sakamoto DDS, PhD (Main campus; runs clinic, general OMS)
Mohammad Al-Obaidi DMD, MD (Part-time main campus; general OMS)
Michael Oh DMD, MD (Main campus; general OMS)
Patrick Wong DDS, MD (Main campus; craniofacial-trained)
Randy Sanovich, DDS (Part-time main campus and Presby; facial cosmetics)
John Stella DDS (JPS director/chair; orthognathics, implants)
Michael Warner DDS, PhD (JPS; TMJ, cosmetics)
Herman Kao DDS, MD (JPS; trauma, general OMS)
Fayette Williams DDS, MD (JPS; Head & Neck Oncology, Microvascular)
Roderick Kim DDS, MD (JPS; Head & Neck Oncology, Microvascular)
Brett Shirley DDS, MD (JPS; Head & Neck Oncology, Microvascular)
Richard Patterson DDS (JPS)
Todd Wentland DDS, MD (JPS)


ALUMNI
Our Parkland alumni are leaders in our field. Parkland is proud of our rich history, and we continue to pursue opportunities to remain one of the premier training programs for OMFS. Our notable alumni include Department chairs, program directors, numerous program faculty, presidents of AAOMS and the American Board of OMFS, and internationally respected and recognized surgeons across a broad scope. Some of our alumni are listed below:

Dr. RV Walker, Dr. Scott Boyd, Dr. Larry Cunningham, Dr. Ray Fonseca, Dr. Ghali Ghali, Dr. Alan Herford, Dr. Felice O’Ryan, Dr. Likith Reddy, Dr. Douglas Sinn, Dr. Trevor Treasure, Dr. Tim Turvey, Dr. Steve Schendel, Dr. John Stella, Dr. Roger West, Dr. Larry Wolford, Dr. Mike Zide, Dr. Rick Finn, Dr. Robert Alexander, Dr. James Bertz, Dr. Jim Burk Jr., Dr. Jeffrey Dean, Dr. Karel Deleeuw, Dr. Phillip Freeman, Dr. Nestor Karas, Dr. Mark Kohn, Dr. David C. Hoffman, Dr. John La Banc, Dr. Chris Crecelius, Dr. Kevin McBride, Dr. Mike Melugin, Dr. Brett Miles, Dr. Waldemar Polido, Dr. Jeff Moses, Dr. Noel Stoker, Dr. Cesar Guerrero, Dr. James Wilson, Dr. Steven Holmes, Dr. Joe Cillo, Dr. Dan Petrisor, Dr. Fayette Williams, Dr. David R Kang, Dr. Herman Kao, Dr. Brett Shirely, Dr. Neeraj Panchal, Dr. Ryan Mirchel, Dr. Alaaaldin Radwan, Dr. Andrew Read-Fuller


DIDACTICS
Wednesday evening didactics which involve weekly chief presentations on past and future cases, as well as many guest speakers, such as Dr. GE Ghali, Dr. Edward Ellis, Dr. Deepak Krishnan, Dr. Donita Dyalram, Dr. Paul Tiwana, Dr. Todd Hanna, and many more. The topics range from ethics in OMS, how to start a practice, and the broad scope that our specialty manages. Additionally, 2-4 times per month we have a morning lecture on the implants and business models of OMS. Residents will also attend a histopathology lecture with our oral pathologist roughly 1 morning every other month.

Board preparation includes annual OMSITE exams and mock boards provided by faculty for chief residents. Residents frequently attend national OMS conferences, many holding positions in ROAAOMS.


PROGRAM CULTURE
The best part about our program is how tight-knit we are among residents and faculty members. Residents spend a lot of time together regardless of if they are at the hospital or not. There are many OMS program outings and parties throughout the year as well, with some being hosted at our faculty members’ houses. Part of why we attract such strong applicants is due to our residency culture, and this is something we take great pride in.


ON-CALL
For main campus (UTSW, Parkland, Children’s), call is taken on a roughly ~q6-7 basis depending on the time of the year. All hospitals on main campus are within a 5min drive from one another and are usually manageable. This is split amongst our categorical and non-categorical interns, as well as our PGY-2, 3, and 4s when they briefly come back onto service. We have no GPR, so we are 365 dentoalveolar call. We take q3 facial trauma call at UTSW, Parkland, and Children’s which is split amongst us, Plastics, and ENT. We will cover all bony trauma at Children’s when ENT is on face call as well.

We are roughly q2-3 weeks facial trauma call at JPS. JPS has their own non-categorical interns who hold the pager and staff their clinics, but our 5s and 6s are back-up call for them. We also cover Cook Children’s out in Fort Worth, but the fellow will hold the pager – we will have occasional cases at this hospital. Lastly, we have credentials at Baylor All-Saints in Fort Worth – 5th and 6th year residents will occasionally operate here with Dr. Stella.

Our program covers 365 24/7 facial trauma call at Presbyterian hospital as well. The PGY-5 will be on primary call during this time as only 5s and 6s are allowed at this hospital. This is run like a private practice, however, as the 5 can usually see the consults in the AM unless something urgent comes in.

The 5th year holds the pager for the VA when they are on-service there – not much usually comes in.

Parkland, Children’s JPS, Presbyterian, and Cook Children’s are all Level 1 trauma centers, while UTSW is a Level 2 trauma center.


RESEARCH
All residents are expected to complete at least ONE project before the end of residency. This can be either a publication, presentation at a conference, case report, etc. The department will pay for flights and hotels twice per year as long as it is less than $1250 per trip – additional money is possible if approved before the trip. Many of the residents present a poster at AAOMS, and the department will pay for travel and lodging for this or any other conference. This past year of 2023, we sent 12 residents to AAOMS and 5 to ACOMS to present their research – no other program does this. There are many opportunities and projects that residents are running, so it is very easy to get involved with research if this interests you.


LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
Another strong suit of our program is the location. Many of the full-scope, cowboy-type programs are usually in “less desirable” locations, so we are proud to be one of the few full-scope programs in a lively city. Dallas housing was once very affordable with 1 beds going for ~$1300, but it is now a little more expensive as the city continues to flourish (~$1600 for 1br). Don’t forget, we have all major sports teams and no state-income tax down here as well!


MEDICAL SCHOOL
We will do all organ blocks with the medical students for ~10 months and have 1 month off dedicated time to study for Step 1. After this, we do roughly 13 months of clerkships and electives and have to pass each shelf exam. Step 1 and Step 2 have to be passed before graduating from medical school (spring of our PGY-3 year). Most complete Step 3 during their 4th year while on gen surg or anesthesia.

We do not receive income while in medical school, and we owe 3 years of in-state tuition (~$22k per year for tuition). Medical students are encouraged to take call for OMFS while in medical school to help with income (you are paid for your shifts). Most of us took call during our pre-clerkships on days when we have nothing mandatory – you must show up for rounds both when you’re coming on and going off call.

During medical school, you continue to receive your Parkland Resident health insurance (deducted from future paychecks or can pay out of pocket each month). This allows you to avoid expensive medical school health insurance.


MOONLIGHTING
Moonlighting is currently not allowed at our program.


EXTERNSHIPS ENCOURAGED
If you have any interest in our program, PLEASE come hang out with us for a week or 2. We highly encourage people to come extern, and Dr. Schlieve takes this into consideration when sending out interview invites and completing our rank list.

You will be on call with the residents and enjoying happy hour with them after clinic hours. Dental students are also allowed to extract teeth and perform dentoalveolar surgeries in our clinic with the guidance of a resident. You will also be scrubbing into OR cases and helping close incisions/lacerations or sinking screws into recon plates.

Call rooms are available for externs, but most stay at a local Airbnb/hotel when they are not on-call. All dental students are allowed to extern (D1 to D4). With that being said, most who do come see our program will have some sort of clinical experience as our externship is as hands-on as you want it to be. Most externs are excited about how many teeth that they extract; most other externships are fairly hands-off. We had an extern recently extract 73 teeth during his 1-week externship here.

You will mainly be at Parkland Hospital and the associated outpatient clinic, but badges can be obtained for our UTSW site next door. We are in the midst of adding back Childrens access for externs as well, but this is still in the works. Regardless, there is plenty to see and do at Parkland!

More information on applying to externship can be found at: Internship & Externship: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas


SOCIAL MEDIA
Please follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ParklandOMFS to stay up to date on what our program has to offer.



Thank you for taking the time to read this and feel free to contact me directly on here or Instagram with any questions or concerns.

 

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Program update for Northwell Health – North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Queens, NY
IG @NorthwellOMFS

We are a broad scope program that has undergone many changes over the past few years since the last update was posted. 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 several hospitals in both NYC and Long Island including Lenox Hill Hospital, North Shore University Hospital, the Northport VA, and Stony Brook University Hospital. Many of our graduates go into private practice however many also pursue fellowship (2/3 current chiefs are pursuing cosmetics fellowships next year and one of our seniors was recently accepted to a TMJ fellowship).

Faculty
Chair: David Hirsch, MD, DDS, FACS – head and neck fellowship trained at OHSU. Operates at Lenox Hill and LIJ. Full scope head and neck oncology practice
Chief of Service: Andrew Salama MD, DDS, FACS – head and neck fellowship trained at U Maryland. Operates at LIJ, North Shore. Full scope head and neck oncology practice.
Program Director: Hunter Martin DDS, MD, FACS. Operates at Lenox Hill, North Shore, and LIJ. Full scope traditional OMFS practice with a high volume of trauma orthognathic surgery
Peter Protzel DDS, MD. Operates at LIJ and Northshore – Full scope traditional OMFS
Brett Miles DDS, MD, FACS – Dual boarded OMFS and ENT – head and neck fellowship trained at U Toronto, operates at Lenox Hill
Arlene Rodriguez DDS, MD- Director of the Northport VA
Michael Proothi DMD, MD, FACS. Operates at SBUH, full scope traditional OMFS with a high volume of TMJ and orthognathic surgery
William Schneider DMD, MD- fellowship trained a St Francis hospital, full scope traditional OMFS
Dr. Elisheva Rosenfeld DDS, MD, FACS. Operates at LIJ and SBUH, full scope traditional OMFS

Dr. Mitchell Steinberg DDS, MD. Operates at SBUH, full scope traditional OMFS
Dr. Guenter Jonke DDS. Part-time attending at the Stony Brook Clinic
Dr. Allan Kucine DDS. Director of predoctoral education at Stony Brook

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

Two additional attendings are coming onboard in the coming months:
Dr. Megan Sullivan DDS MD
Dr. Laurent Ganry MD

Sites
Long Island Jewish Medical Center: Located in Queens NY
Call: Adult level 2 trauma center, pediatrics level 1 (Cohens Childrens Hospital – 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 work-ups, 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), 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 Manhattan
Call: light call, covered by night float
Dr. Hirsch and Dr. Martin’s private practice located here. Chief resident rotates at this location once a week.
OR: Trauma, orthognathics, benign and malignant pathology + reconstruction. Jaw in a Day reconstruction.

Stony Brook University: located in Stony Brook NY.
Call: Busy level 1 trauma center. We alternate face trauma Q2 with plastics. No tooth call (Covered by SBU GPR). Home call is permitted with a call room available if you choose to stay in the hospital. Most people stay in house here as it is far for most.
Clinic: Located at the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine. 5 days per week AM/PM. Sedations every day AM and PM, implants, 3rds, TMJ. We work closely with the ortho residents and workup a lot of orthognathic cases with them. We also work closely with the prosth residents on implant cases. We do not have teaching responsibilities for the dental students.
OR: Heavy on TMJ and orthognathics including joint replacements

Northport VA
Senior level rotation, no call and no OR at this location
Clinic: teeth and titanium 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: 2 months SICU, 4 months anesthesia, 6 months gen surg (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

The rotation schedule varies depending on the year. Generally the rotations are broken up so that you are either covering LIJ, Stony Brook, or NS/Lenox/Northport for one or 2 months at a time. Chiefs will spend a total of 4 months at each of these sites.
We currently accept 3 non-categorial per year
Didactic Schedule

• Mondays: Case conference/M&M
• Tuesdays: Tumor board, Journal club (Stony Brook)
• Wednesdays: Attending Lectures
• Fridays: Journal Club, OMSITE, Board Review
• Dentofacial deformities conference quarterly
• Morbidity and Mortality quarterly

Salary/Benefits/Lifestyle
Northwell residents recently got a pay increase. The PGY1 salary is now $80,465 increasing each year to $89,775 as a chief (PGY4). 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 relatively 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.

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 “top heavy”. Interns will be very involved in the OR from an early point. Our interns have cut orthognathics, total joints, trauma cases, and cysts. Interns cut almost all OR teeth cases. Most attendings encourage interns and junior residents to be hands on. In the clinic, interns will be removing a lot of teeth, placing some implants, and doing the surgery component of some sedations while the attending pushes the meds. In addition they will see consults and post ops. They comfortable closing large lacerations and performing closed reductions in the ED a few months into service.
• The scope and volume. We are a very OR heavy program that gets exposure to many different attendings who operate in different styles. At LIJ it is not unusual to complete 20+ cases in a week. 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 currently have no fellows, allowing for residents to cut big cases
• 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].

 

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Case Western Reserve University - 2024/2025 Program Update​

Case Western Reserve University has the nation’s only 5-year MD integrated OMS program. We match 3 categorical residents per year, 1 international training resident, 1 research fellow, plus a variable number of non-categorical interns.

We love our program! I hope you all have the chance to interview here and meet us in person so we can show you why. Our deadline for applying this year is September 1st, so send your app ASAP! If you aren't fortunate enough to match with us, we also welcome you to join us for a non-categorical year at either of our hospital systems. During the interview season, things move so fast! So use this post as a reference as you start thinking about where you want to place us on your rank list.

Our Website

SCHEDULE

Year 1 (7 months UH/CWRU OMFS, 3 months VA OMFS, 2 months Anesthesia)
Once you match with us in January, it's time to start studying for the CBSE again (I know, I'm sorry). Before you begin the program, you will need to take the CBSE in May or June. You are required by Dr.Quereshy and the Case Western medical school to get a solid score before you can take the USMLE Step 1. Once you show them a solid score, you're clear to take Step 1. Most of our interns take Step 1 in early June so they have the rest of June to relax and go on vacation. Expect to move to Cleveland in July to get settled and participate in some orientation. Then you'll officially start full time August 1st. It's sweet to get STEP 1 out of the way before starting residency.

As an intern on the UH/CWRU team, you are the backbone of our busy dental clinic and hospital service. In clinic, you will do pretty much all of the local anesthesia procedures - that means impacted wisdom teeth, full mouth extractions, bone grafts, biopsies, expose & bonds, consults, etc. If it's under local, it's for the interns. With that said, there is always an upper level resident in clinic to help if you want someone to show you how they do things. You will also be in charge of overseeing the dental students and rescuing them when they get stuck with their pull-and-pull clinic. You're basically their preceptor/attending. In the hospital, you help take care of our inpatients and learn how they are managed pre- and post-operatively. Interns take the most primary call of all the residents (see details below), but of course, there's always an upper level who has your back if needed.

As a VA resident, your dentoalveolar experience is unmatched. You'll do teeth and bone grafting, but your main focus will be placing implants. Most of our residents place 100-200 implants at the VA their first year, many of which are multi-unit cases. I think our intern this past year broke the record and did ~230 during her 3 months there. At the VA, we size up the cases based on the CBCT, but place all implants freehand. At the VA, you’ll have much more attending supervision, and residents appreciate the close relationship with the faculty who serve as our personal mentors and help develop our technique.

On anesthesia, you’ll be rotating at University Hospitals main campus. By the end of your anesthesia rotation you will be comfortable masking, inducing, intubating, managing, and emerging patients from general anesthesia. We are assigned to buddy with an anesthesia resident each week. When on anesthesia, you are not expected to participate in any on-service duties such as taking call and attending lectures. By the end of first year, we start having you do IV sedations in clinic.

Throughout first year, you will have various medical school seminars learning how to do full History & Physicals and you’ll be tested with actors in simulation exams. This is generally once per week during the evening. Not bad for getting to skip MS1 and MS2.

Year 2 (11 months medical school)

You are a third year medical student for PGY-2. Your rotations include Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, Internal Medicine, and Family Medicine. You have no on service responsibilities. Most rotations treat us like regular MS3’s, some will give us more responsibility and treat us like acting interns. This is generally a light year that makes way for the potential for lots of reading. Most residents take STEP 2 in May or June right after their final MS3 rotation. This is generally the year we complete our CODA-mandated research requirement.

Year 3 (7 months UH OMFS, 2 months Metro OMFS chief, 3 months Anesthesia including 1 month dedicated pediatric anesthesia)

On the UH/CWRU team, you are a midlevel resident. In clinic, you are the head honcho most days. You will be doing IV sedations in the clinic all day (we do IV sedations 5 days a week, 1-2 per hour), while supervising the 1st-year residents doing all the local cases. You are also placing most of the implants for the dental student patients. After you learn to freehand at the VA your first year, we've been moving to fully guided for our dental school implants, so you'll learn both ways. We have an intraoral scanner, model scanner, CBCT, 3D printer, and guided kits. You'll be comfortable with Straumann, Zimmer, BioHorizons, Neodent, and Nobel by the time you're done. When in the the OR, you are 2nd operator for most cases, and usually chiefs will let you be 1st operator for infections and trauma cases.

While at Metro, YOU ARE THE CHIEF! You run the service with the 2 Metro non-cats, doing all the OR cases, and the clinic sedations. You are taking a lot of backup call. It's a great rotation to get used to being a chief.

This is technically your 4th year of medical school, but besides taking STEP 2, you have no medical school responsibilities. In May, you graduate from the medical school and get your MD.

On anesthesia, it will be similar to PGY-1, but now you'll be responsible for handling rooms by yourself sometimes. You’ll have an entire month dedicated to pediatric cases. Most residents finish their graduation anesthesia requirements (300 total cases, 150 of which must be ambulatory OMFS cases) by the end of 3rd year.

Year 4 (3 months OMFS at UH or Metro, 3 months ENT, 3 months Plastics, 1 month Trauma Surgery, 1 month Pediatric Surgery, 1 month Trauma ICU)

At most programs, this is a full “GenSurg year” where you spend 12 months on the general surgery team. At Case, you will spend 3 months on OMFS continuing your responsibilities as a midlevel or chief.

On ENT, you'll spend time with our nationally-ranked Head & Neck colleagues doing flaps and flaps and flaps. Thankfully, we don't manage cancer on our oral surgery service, but you'll get the experience with them. They're pretty much doing flaps every single day.

Plastic surgery done is at MetroHealth for 3 months where you’ll get more exposure to flaps, reconstruction, and cosmetic surgery.

The final 3 months are a month each of TICU, Trauma Surgery, and Pediatric Surgery.

Most of our residents take STEP 3 during 4th year. We receive 2 years of ACGME credit toward medical licensure. YES, 2 full years of ACGME credit!

Year 5 (12 months UH OMFS chief)

As chief, you will be chief of the UH team. You are ultimately responsible for all aspects of the service. You will be in the operating room multiple days every week as the primary operator. Our faculty puts a great deal of trust in us to be prepared for our cases, and in turn, when you have their trust, we cut basically 100% of the cases. Our attendings are there to teach us and help us when we need it, not to do the procedure and have us assist. When you are not in the operating room you will be in clinic doing sedations, seeing your post-ops, and training the lower level residents. This is a busy year with a lot of responsibility, but when you finish chief year you will be ready to go out and practice independently and confidently.

Total ~34 months of OMFS

Scope
We are a broad-scope program, including ample training in dentoalveolar surgery, implants, sedations/anesthesia, orthognathic, pediatric cases, TMJ, infections, benign pathology, reconstruction, trauma, and cosmetics.

Dentoalveolar: Being on the ground floor of a dental school with 80 students/year and speciality departments, we are flooded with dentoalveolar cases. You will be more than comfortable managing any dentoalveolar case and administering in office sedation.

TMJ: I think we do more custom TMJ replacements than 90% of programs. We get referrals from throughout Ohio and beyond. We offer a full spectrum of options ranging from conservative treatments like TMJ Botox and arthrocentesis, to aggressive treatment like total TMJ replacement.

Infections: These are a great opportunity to allow our junior residents a chance to be primary operators in the OR setting. We see enough of these that you will quickly become comfortable managing these patients surgically and medically.

Dental Implants: As I mentioned above, most residents place 100-200 at the VA their first year. Then do even more as a midlevel at the dental school. I think the numbers speak for themselves. We use Zimmer, Straumann, BioHorizons, Neodent, and Nobel. We use CoDiagnostics for our planning software. We have an in house 3D printer and design and print our own surgical guides.

Orthognathic: We have a great orthodontic department that provides a steady stream of referrals. Case Western is home to a craniofacial orthodontics fellowship program which means we work hand in hand with the fellow on complex orthognathic cases. Our attendings are well known and respected in the community and also receive a high volume of referrals from private orthodontists. At MetroHealth we have a steady stream of OSA patients on whom we perform MMA. Our residents all graduate feeling very comfortable working up, planning, and performing orthognathic surgery.

Cosmetic Surgery: This is where we stand out. Dr. Quereshy brings us to rhinoplasties, face lifts, neck lifts, blepharoplasties, facial implants, and more. In clinic, we keep the Botox and Filler stocked and ready to use. I think I've done almost 150 filler cases myself. We've had residents match into cosmetic surgery fellowships in the past, and we seem to keep attracting more who want to pursue it.

Trauma: Most programs have good trauma, and we're no exception. We cover two Level I trauma centers (University Hospitals main campus and MetroHealth), so we are not lacking for trauma cases. There are parts of Cleveland with high crime rates in the Summer, and there are lots of MVCs in the Winter thanks to the ice. Lacerations are done in the ED by our interns, and you'll see plenty of dog bites, falls, assaults, and slips on ice. We get too many mandibles and orbital fractures. Once in a while we get those gnarly pan facials from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or MVC. We cover trauma call every 3rd week, with ENT and Plastics covering the remainder of the time.

Pathology/Reconstruction: We do not do malignant pathology - we have our excellent ENT colleagues for those cases. Most of us residents appreciate that we do not manage malignant pathology on our service and can refer these patients to ENT, and we see it as a blessing of the program. We do anything benign, no matter the size of the ameloblastoma or myxoma or ameloblastic fibroma. Dr. Baur is a big name in treatment of osteonecrosis, so he gets all the referrals from local surgeons for MRONJ and ORN. For reconstruction, we do lots and lots of iliac crest grafts, rib grafts, and mandibular autografts.

Craniofacial: Our craniofacial experience is limited to some secondary bone grafting and cleft orthognathics. We do not do primary cleft or craniofacial reconstruction. Just like for malignant path, most of us enjoy not managing complex craniofacial cases on our service.

Sedations/Anesthesia: I think this is where we excel. We run a very busy clinic, including IV sedations 5 days/week. When we are fully staffed with residents, we do 2 or 3 sedations per hour all day. Most of the residents here plan to go into private practice, so excellent clinic training is important to us all. Many of us are done with our CODA sedation requirements by the end of 3rd year.

Facilities
Our home is the first floor of the CWRU dental school building across the street from the Cleveland Clinic. The building is about 5 years old. Ask anyone who has externed with us - we have beautiful facilities! TV in every patient room, modern chairs and lights, clean and well lit interiors, wonderfully helpful staff, and plenty of space. We have a lab, pre-op/post-op areas, storage rooms, a resident room, a conference room, and much more. We have an entire army of dental students, ortho residents, and AEGD residents who are a constant stream of referrals to us. The new Samson Pavilion where we hold lectures and have medical school lectures is next door to our dental school.

Our clinic has 2 full-blown operating rooms. We are currently completing the process of credentialing and staffing these as ambulatory OR’s so we can start operating at our home base. We’re hoping to have these up and running by 2025. We’re really excited about opening these, because it means we can move all of our ambulatory cases out of the hospital OR’s and replace the block time with bigger cases.

Our OR home is University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, a Level 1 trauma center, about a 5 minute drive down Euclid Ave. We operate out of Mather OR (UH’s main OR) and Prentiss OR (UH’s pediatric OR). We also operate at some of UH’s satellite sites, including Ahuja Medical Center and Mentor Medical Center.

MetroHealth is a Level 1 trauma center on the west side of Cleveland. It's about 15-20 minutes from the dental school. Metro is the county hospital and a very busy trauma center.

The Louis Stokes VA Medical Center is a 3 minute drive from the dental school. This is where you rotate 1st year.

Call
Interns take the most primary call, generally ~q4-5. The non-cats also pick up some non-trauma days to help out. We split trauma call with ENT and plastics, with us taking every 3rd week. Metro and UH have two separate teams, so you will never be on call at both hospitals at the same time. It can be very busy on trauma nights. Thankfully, we have an AEGD team who takes tooth call. We do not splint teeth, this is handled by AEGD. Sometimes AEGD will call us in for an infection they don’t think they can handle, but they always go see the patient first to screen out a lot of the nonsense tooth calls other programs sometimes have to deal with. So non-trauma days are generally pretty quiet. We have a dedicated call room and we receive a food stipend. The VA has a pager but it rarely goes off.

Faculty
Dr. Dale A. Baur, DDS. Program Chair. Dr. Baur does just about everything. He is Michigan trained in Head & Neck. He's most known for benign path, osteonecrosis, MRONJ, and TMJ replacement. He is also very involved in the dental school, serving as vice dean among other roles.

Dr. Faisal A. Quereshy, MD, DDS, FACS. Program Director. Dr. Quereshy operates broadly, but is most famous for his cosmetic work. He runs a successful private practice in Ohio from which he sometimes refers patients.

Dr. Keith Schneider, DMD, FACS. Dr. Schneider covers a lot of our trauma. He runs a very successful private practice in Ohio. He brings many patients from his private practice (as well as local prisons) to our service for surgeries.

Our VA attendings are…
Dr. Michael Horan, MD, DDS, PhD, FACS - Clinic Director
Dr. John Brokloff, DDS

Our MetroHealth attendings are…
Dr. Petra Olivieri, DMD, MD (Case grad from 2021) - Division Chief
Dr. Justin Clemow, DMD, MD, FACS (Jacksonville grad)
Dr. Alan Martinez, DDS

We also have various faculty who cover our clinic and act as mentors to us. They include…
Dr. Donald P. Lewis, DDS, CFE (Case grad)
Dr. James Perhavec, DMD (Case grad)
Dr. Maximillian G. Beushausen, DMD, MD (Case grad from 2018)
Dr. Thomas J. Dietrich DDS, MD (Louisville grad from 2010)

We have dedicated staff, who are a blessing to have around. They assist in scheduling patients in the OR and clinic, seating patients, turning over rooms, taking patients to radiology, organizing cabinets, stocking supplies, and maintaining our medication room.

Finances
You are paid a stipend ~$65k-75k every year except 2nd year.
You pay tuition (~$55k) 2nd and 3rd year.
Financial aid is available from Case Western Reserve University.

Lectures/Didactics
We have set lecture series which occur most mornings. Our lecture series include…

• Case presentations (We review the upcoming 2 weeks of cases. What are we doing? How are we doing them? What concerns do we have?)​
• OMFS Lecture Series (We split up the chapters in Petersons and Fonseca and we take turns giving lectures about the chapters)​
• Orthognathic Conference with the Orthodontics Department​
• AEGD Conference with the AEGD Department, usually focusing on implants​
• Oral Pathology with our UH oral pathologist​
• Emergency Lectures with Dr. Perhavec, covering anesthesia emergencies, clinic emergencies, etc.​
• Pathology Lectures with Dr. Helman (Michigan Head & Neck trained).​
• On Fridays, it’s usually a miscellaneous lecture, could be an extra OMFS Lecture, M&M Conference, etc.​

Research
We are expected to “participate in research activity” as mandated by accreditation. What you do is largely up to you. Some will complete it during medical school. We have been taking a research fellow each year, which has been awesome, because it allows us to focus on the surgery part, and the research fellow takes care of the research part, and we have been publishing a lot more thanks to them.

Externships
We try to always have an extern scheduled each week. It’s the best way to see our facilities and get a feel for our program culture. Externs tend to enjoy the week with us. When you’re here, we try to get you to every OR case we can. You are our guest and we do our best to treat you well. We always call you for any trauma which rolls in to get you involved.

Cleveland
It’s definitely not as bad as you’ve heard. Our university has a beautiful, private school campus feel. Looking to live close? Try University Circle or Little Italy. Looking to live somewhere young and hip? Try Ohio City or Tremont. Looking for a nice suburban neighborhood with families? Try University Heights, Shaker, or Beachwood.

The summers in Cleveland are gorgeous, and people go wild for outdoor activities. It's almost never "too hot" in Cleveland. For the outdoors people, Cayahoga National Park and the MetroParks is a common spot to hike or you can visit Edgewater Park and sit on the beach. For the cultured types, we have the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Museum of Art, or you can take a stroll down to Little Italy for a fancy dinner and gelato. Sports fans will enjoy the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Cleveland Guardians games. And if you really need to get away, Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is 15 minutes from downtown.

Residents
Our team of residents come from all over the country, of all different cultural and religious backgrounds. Many are engaged or married, with or without kids. In common, we are all hard working with easygoing personalities. We joke around a lot and spend time together, inside and outside of work.

In summary, we love this program. Every resident I know here ranked Case #1 or #2 on their match list which says all you need to know about our program. We are truly proud of our setup.

Our Current Residents

Highlights

• Resident-driven program.​
• Extensive clinic, dentoalveolar, implant, and sedation experience.​
• Attendings with private practice experience.​
• Two level 1 hospital services.​
• Limited Med School and Gen Surg time.​
• Strong associations with a dental school, a VA, and surrounding OS private practices.​

We are looking forward to meeting you all during interviews!

 

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Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
6-Year Dual Degree Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program
(2 residents per year)​

Program Website

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Hey everyone! With interview season coming up, we wanted to share some updates to our program.

We think our program is pretty awesome, and we can’t wait to show you why when you visit us for interviews.


Program Structure:

There are two tracks within the program, the standard track and an alternative track within the first two years of residency for applicants from Harvard, Stony Brook, or UConn dental schools (accelerated medical school education).


Year 1:

Interns on the standard track will split their first year between 6 months of OMFS and 6 months of medical school, while those on the alternative track will spend the entire year on OMFS. If you are on the standard track, you will transition to being a full-time medical student starting January 1. The majority of lectures aren’t mandatory, with only a few small group sessions and seminars requiring in-person attendance each week.

As an intern, you will run the show in our busy, resident-driven clinic. This setup is a great learning opportunity for first year residents, but it also demands a strong work ethic and teamwork. In the clinic, interns gain hands-on experience with a wide range of procedures, including impacted wisdom teeth extractions, full mouth extractions, bone grafting, biopsies, expose & bonds, I&D’s, and more. First year residents are also be responsible for guiding dental students, stepping in to assist them with their patients. Throughout your time in the clinic, there will always be attendings and upper-level residents available to provide support and mentorship.

Interns also have the chance to repair lacerations, help manage complex facial fractures, and address space infections, especially during on-call shifts. Additionally, first years rotate through our private/faculty practice, where they will assist in the evaluation and workup of orthognathic cases, learning how to assess, plan, and set expectations for patients.

From early in first year, senior residents will involve the intern in splitting extractions during their sedation cases. Our team is deeply committed to teaching—residents take pride in mentoring those coming up behind them, demonstrating solid techniques, and providing valuable, constructive feedback during cases. By January, most interns are confidently and routinely handling impacted third molar extractions and placing implants.

To build a strong surgical foundation, first year residents will be regularly assigned to the OR, assisting upper-level residents in a variety of procedures. Interns will hold sticks but will also have the opportunity to participate in key aspects of the surgery and help with closures.


Year 2:

Residents on the standard track continue as full-time medical students for the next 12 months, with the first 6 months following the same teaching model of lectures, small group sessions, and seminars. Meanwhile, residents on the alternative track have the flexibility to explore their specific interests with 5 months dedicated to surgical electives. Many choose to work closely with our Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology department, deepening their understanding of the presentation, manifestations, and pathology of head and neck diseases. Others take advantage of the opportunity to shadow private practice physicians in the city, from Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons affiliated with our program to facial plastic surgeons with offices on Park Avenue.

In January, the two tracks converge, and all residents transition to full-time medical students during the major clinical year. By the end of January, residents are expected to complete USMLE Step 1, after which they begin their core medical school rotations, preceptor sessions, and additional supplemental courses.

Year 3:

Residents complete the core rotations of their major clinical year during the first 6 months of their third year. Most of our residents take USMLE Step 2 in December or January of this year. January and February are dedicated to medical school electives, which many residents use to gain additional experience in anesthesia and the surgical ICU.

The final 3-4 months of the third year are focused on intensive anesthesia training. The first month pairs residents one-on-one with an upper-level anesthesia resident, allowing them to develop their skills, learn the workflow, and build confidence in administering anesthesia. After this initial month, OMFS residents are treated as anesthesia residents within the department. They are assigned to their own cases but are always paired with an attending who supervises each case and thoroughly discusses the anesthesia plan, though they may not always be physically present in the room.

This period of anesthesia training is crucial to our residents' development, significantly influencing their clinical decision-making after residency. The in-depth discussions with attendings about patient comorbidities and individualized approaches to sedation or general anesthesia equip residents with the skills to determine whether a future patient is suitable for outpatient sedation in a clinic or requires treatment in an operating room setting. Additionally, residents spend several weeks on the OMFS service at the end of their third year.


Year 4:

Residents function as general surgery residents at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, rotating through key services such as Plastic Surgery, ENT, SICU, and Pediatric Surgery. We are fortunate to have a close relationship with the ENT department, ensuring our residents gain significant experience in Head & Neck Reconstruction and Microvascular surgery. Additionally, many residents rotate through other core general surgery services, including Thoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Acute Care Surgery, further broadening their surgical expertise. During the general surgery year, residents also spend an additional month on adult anesthesia, one month on pediatric anesthesia at the children’s hospital, and a month dedicated to OMFS.

Year 5:

The entire fifth year is dedicated to OMFS, with a strong focus on outpatient sedations in our resident clinic. Thanks to the high volume of cases, most residents comfortably exceed their sedation requirements well before the year’s end. During this period, fifth-year residents also take a leading role in virtual surgical planning sessions for orthognathic and reconstructive cases.

In addition to outpatient procedures, fifth-year residents are expected to participate fully in the entire spectrum of OR cases on our schedule. They also play a significant role in the faculty practice, engaging in every aspect of patient care—from initial workup to the execution of treatment plans. Moreover, they are responsible for floor patient management and all inpatient consults.

Fifth-year residents are also tasked with actively participating in the oral surgery didactic course for dental students, regularly delivering lectures and imparting their knowledge to the next generation.

Year 6:

As chief residents during the final 12 months of training, residents take on full responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the daily OMFS service. Chiefs manage the coordination of all OR cases, make weekly schedule assignments, and oversee the call schedule. Chiefs are granted significant autonomy to perform more complex outpatient cases in our resident clinic and have the flexibility to focus on specific cases that align with their particular areas of interest within OMFS. They also have the opportunity to work closely with attendings at our Midtown location, which closely mirrors the environment of a private practice.


Facilities:

Our program offers a unique opportunity to gain experience in a variety of clinical settings, including NewYork-Presbyterian Milstein Hospital, the Children’s Hospital of New York (CHONY), and the Allen Hospital. At Allen Hospital, we manage the ER, with a convenient 24/7 shuttle service connecting it to Milstein, which is located about 50 blocks away. Milstein and CHONY are seamlessly connected by skybridges, ensuring easy access between these world-class facilities.

Our resident clinic and one of our faculty practice locations are fully integrated within the dental school, providing residents with access to state-of-the-art technology, including the latest CBCT scanners, intraoral scanners, and 3D printers—all regularly utilized in both OR and outpatient cases. This integration promotes collaboration with specialties such as GPR, AEGD, and Prosthodontics. Upper-level residents may also assist attendings with outpatient procedures at our ColumbiaDoctors Midtown location on 51st Street.

Scope:

Our program offers comprehensive training across the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery, with particular strengths in orthognathic surgery, dentoalveolar procedures, implants, craniofacial surgery, non-malignant pathology, reconstruction, and the management of infections and trauma cases. While our exposure to cosmetic cases has been limited in the past, we anticipate a significant expansion in this area with the recent addition of Dr. Krutyansky, who completed a fellowship in general cosmetic surgery. He also brings significant experience in TMJ management and nerve repairs.

We manage a large number of craniofacial patients, often performing alveolar cleft grafting, cleft lip and palate repairs, mandibular distractions (including for neonates with Robin sequence), and orthognathic surgeries. On average, we handle over 200 orthognathic cases per year.

Milstein Hospital is a Level 2 trauma center, while CHONY is a Level 1 center. Our residents gain sufficient trauma exposure without it overwhelming the program. We share facial trauma call coverage with ENT and Plastics.

We frequently collaborate with Head and Neck surgeons in the ENT department, particularly in joint cases involving microvascular free flap reconstruction. These cases offer valuable experience in tracheostomies and microvascular reconstruction.

Our OR block Mondays, every other Tuesday, every other Wednesday, Thursdays, and every fourth Friday but we often add cases on generally operating 3-5 days per week.  

Our outpatient procedure clinic operates Monday through Friday, where residents perform procedures such as third molar extractions, implants, expose and bonds, biopsies, and other dentoalveolar surgeries. Upper-level residents oversee sedations, with our clinic operating similarly to a private practice model. This setup allows residents to gain excellent procedural and sedation experience, typically completing 250+ sedations and 300+ implant and/or grafting cases by graduation.

The Faculty Practice clinic also runs Monday through Friday, where residents assist attendings at various locations.


Call Structure:

The intern shares first call duties with GPR residents, with first call q4-q6, depending on time of year and off service rotations. Call is a 24 hour shift and either the PGY5 or PGY6 is second call. Facial trauma call is split with ENT and Plastic surgery.

Didactics:

Tuesday:
• Weekly implant lecture series (morning)
Wednesday:
• Monthly Surgical-Orthodontic conference (evening)
Thursday:
• Weekly core Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery lecture series (morning)
Friday:
• Weekly Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology lecture series (morning)
• Monthly Craniofacial lecture (afternoon)

Full-Time Faculty:

Sidney Eisig, DDS FACS
• Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, George Guttmann Professor of Clinical Craniofacial Surgery, and Chief of the Hospital Dental Service at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
• Clinical interests: Orthognathic Surgery, craniofacial and cleft palate surgery, maxillofacial pathology and reconstruction, and pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery

Alia Koch, DDS MD FACS
• Program director, Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Director of the New York Presbyterian Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Academy for Physicians

Mohammad Amin Khoshnevisan, DMD
• Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Fellowship trained Craniofacial surgeon

Artem Krutyansky, DMD, MD, MPH
• Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Fellowship trained in General Cosmetic Surgery

Steven Brody, DDS
• Assistant Clinical Professor
• Partner Emeritus, Greenwich Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Louis Mandel, DDS
• Clinical Professor
• Director of the Salivary Gland Center


We are fortunate to maintain strong relationships with many of the premier private practices in the New York Metro area. These esteemed surgeons not only bring OR cases to our program but also volunteer in the resident clinic on a part-time basis.

Part-Time Faculty:
• Garrick Alex, DDS, MD
• Daniel Bienstock, DMD, MD
• Michelle Bergen, DDS, MD, FACS
• Matt Clark, DDS, MD
• Dino M. DeFilippis, DDS
• Michael Forman, DMD, MD
• Alex M. Greenberg, DDS
• Chang Han, DDS, MD
• Christine Hamilton-Hall, DMD, MD
• Charles H. Hoffman, DDS
• Lawrence S. Holtzman, DMD
• Linda Huang, DDS, MD, FACS
• Tarek Korban, DMD, MD
• Sergei Kuznetsov, DDS, MD
• Siu Hang Ngan, DDS, MD
• Angelo Ostuni, DDS, MD
• Mark Park, DDS, MD
• Yandresco Quintana, DDS, MD
• Doron Ringler, DMD, MD
• Constantine Simos, DMD
• James Su, DDS
• Tom Wilson, DDS, MD
• Brett Zuckerman, DMD


Perks:
• Top Compensation: NewYork-Presbyterian offers the highest-paid House Staff positions in the country, helping to offset the cost of living in New York City
• Generous Benefits: Additional perks include a $2,000 annual Lyft credit (paid semi-annually) and a $2,160 annual meal stipend (added monthly)
• Ivy League Resources: Residents have access to the extensive resources and opportunities that come with being part of an Ivy League institution
• Professional Development: Residents are generally funded to attend any course or conference of interest, including those where they are presenting
• Global Outreach: Participate in a Cleft Trip to Mexico or Colombia, typically during 6th year, offering a unique and rewarding global health experience
• Supportive Community: Great faculty, great residents, great staff!

Location:

Many residents begin their training living near the Medical Center in Washington Heights, but as they progress through the program, they often branch out to other neighborhoods. Some choose to move further downtown to areas like Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, and the Upper West Side, while others opt for the convenience of living across the bridge in New Jersey, in places like Fort Lee.

Medical School:

Consistently ranked among the top medical schools in the country, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons offers residents a premier medical education. Residents in the standard track are responsible for 5 semesters of tuition, while those in the alternative track are responsible for 3 semesters. The school, named after Roy and Diana Vagelos, recently received an additional $400 million donation from the Vagelos family, bringing their total contribution to $900 million to the University. These generous donations allow the medical school to offer substantial scholarships, significantly reducing tuition costs, while continuing to invest in cutting-edge research and technology.

All families whose total annual income falls below $125,000 a year will be assessed a zero contribution from income. OMFS-MD students qualify the same as all MD students for the Vagelos scholarship, and some OMFS residents have received the full scholarship.

Recent Graduates:

In recent years, our residents have matched into fellowship programs in Head & Neck/Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, General Cosmetic Surgery, and Orthognathic/Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Many of our alumni go on to build successful careers in private practice following the completion of their training.

Externships:

Our program offers a great hands-on externship, where students have the opportunity to actively assist in a busy outpatient procedure clinic and gain exposure to a wide range of OR procedures. Externships typically visit for one week, though longer stays are welcomed and encouraged.

 

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Updated from the previous Program Overview.

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) OMFS Program Overview

This program is one that is rich in tradition and history. We are one of the oldest 6 year OMFS programs in the country. If you search UAB in these forums, you will see the high praise of the program throughout the years. In the last 10 years, we have made proud strides and have increased the number of OR cases and have almost doubled the number of faculty as our service continues to grow. Our program has evolved a ton that it is different from what it was even 2 years ago.

Overview:
6-year MD integrated program with 4 residents per year

• Attend UAB med school #31 nationally ranked medical school (UAB has been ranked in the 20s- 30s depending on the year). UAB SOM graduates have a great reputation among various residency programs, and the students routinely match into competitive programs across the country. Tuition for med school is currently ~35k/yr. You auto-qualify for in-state tuition and you are paid for the months on service in 3rd year (salary for 1/3 of the year.)
• UAB is an impressive hospital. One of the largest academic medical campuses in the country. The medical campus is in the heart of the city, and Birmingham is the life source for the state. Alabama’s success is very closely tied to UAB’s success, so it’s always on the cutting edge. Check out the rankings for specialties within UAB hospital (US News) – it is a medical hotspot in the Southeast. Anything ranked is impressive because there are hundreds of med residencies per specialty. Most hospitals in the country (especially southern hospitals) do not have a vast majority of their specialties ranked or in a high performing category.
• The reputation of the residents within the hospital is excellent. Many attendings and services say that the OMFS residents are the best residents in the hospital because they’re responsive, willing to go the extra mile, are friendly, and provide good quality work. Our department is well respected and our OR privileges prove it.

The Numbers:
We do it all. We are a total scope program with heavy dentoalveolar, trauma, orthognathics, reconstruction, cosmetics, craniofacial (secondary clefts), and head and neck cancer. We can perform full IV sedation cases as first years after a sedation course in July of intern year (only 1-2 other programs have this) and our implant numbers are high. Interns can place around 40+ with increasing numbers as you rise the ranks – Most leave having placed between 100-200 implants, but some place more than that.

• We have multiple clinics and multiple ORs running simultaneously every single day! We work at University Hospital, UAB Highlands, Birmingham VA medical center, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Callahan Eye clinic, The Kirklin Clinic and UAB dental school.
• Children’s and UAB are all Level one trauma hospitals.
• CODA Procedure Categories (From 2020. Has increased substantially since then):
  Trauma - 517
  Pathology – 1305*
  Orthognathic - 238
  Reconstruction/Cosmetics – 1342
• OR Procedures per Chief – 850.5 (CODA requires 175/chief)
• Other Categories:
  Outpatient Visits – 55,615
• Implants placed/year - 1432

Unique Features:

• Our service treats 5s and 6s as “chiefs” (6s have the administrative responsibilities to run the service) so they will NEVER be in the same OR together. There is essentially 8 chiefs on different rotations. As a 6, you will make the schedule and be allowed to choose your rotations and decide on what services you will want to rotate on. You are required to do only 1 month of the head and neck service as a chief but you may do more months if you are interested.
• As interns, you are split into 1) OR/Clinic, 2) School of Dentistry and 3)Head&Neck. You spend a month on each at a time. This structure allows interns to have great exposure to H&N without sacrificing the other important aspects of OMFS.
• Dentoalveolar - Our dentoalveolar experience is unrivaled. In our VA rotation first year, you run the VA service as an intern with NO upper level and do full dentoalveolar - IV sedation of full bony impacted 3rds, sinus lifts, all on 2s. We can do full IV sedations with propofol, fentanyl, versed, ketamine after taking our sedation course with Dr. Louis in July of intern year. On top of this you are on a separate dental school rotation as the only intern with one upper level seeing 30-40 patients a day also doing full dentoalveolar - it is a very busy day. The chiefs will usually take the more complicated/interesting cases such as multi implant cases.
• Head & Neck: We have one of the highest free flap numbers in the country along with one of the highest malignant/benign pathology numbers. Our attendings Dr. Morlandt, Dr. Ying and Dr. Ponto have grown our H&N service to be an amazing experience and its reputation has been on the rise. We do as many free flaps overall as our ENT Service (#29 ranked in the country so it is a strong program). On top of this, we actually do more fibula free flaps than our ENT brethren. We account for 80-90% of bony flaps for our insitution. Our rotations are 1-month at a time so you will only rotate on H&N every 4 months. We have one fellow that does not take away the experience on cancer like other programs.
• We have a PA for Dr. Louis’ TMJ clinic/ day consults and a PA for our H&N clinic/OR. We have RNFAs that assist in the OR as well.
• Trauma: We are on face call twice as much trauma call as Plastics and ENT so we receive a majority of the trauma cases. UAB is considered the only ATLS level 1 trauma center in the state, while Children's of Alabama is the only pediatric level 1 trauma center in the state.
• No tooth call. Hospital dentistry will take care of this. We will, however, handle odontogenic infections, isolated alveolar ridge fractures.

Schedule:

• Year 1: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Internship (12 months OMFS which includes 4 rotations - H&N, VA, Dental School, OR/Clinic) Get 6 weeks off in the Spring to finish studying for and take/Pass Step 1. This allows you to skip the first two years of medical school.
• Year 2: Third year of medical school (Clerkships)
• Year 3: July to March - Fourth year of Med school (8 months – 3 are mandatory acting internships, 5 are electives (20 weeks) of your choosing like Craniofacial, Occuloplastics, ENT etc) March to June – 4 months of OMFS on service as a Junior resident
• Year 4: General Surgery Internship (7 months General Surgery, 4 months Adult Anesthesia, 1 month Peds Anesthesia)
• Year 5: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Senior (12 months OMFS)
• Year 6: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Chief (12 months OMFS)

Research:
All residents are expected to participate in at least one project and produce a publishable product.

• Many research opportunities - UAB hospital is #21 nationally in NIH funding.
• Affiliated UAB dental school has the #1 NIH research funding in the country among dental schools

Resident School demographics:
Our current residents have come all over the country including but limited to UPenn, Michigan, UCSF, UNC, Maryland, UAB, UConn, UT San Antonio, UT Houston, USC, Tennessee, Ohio State, Western, SUNY Buffalo, Louisville, UNE, Columbia etc.

OMS Full-Time Faculty (One of the largest full time faculty staff):

• Program Chairman: Dr. Patrick Louis, DDS, MD
  • One of the longest reigning program directors in the country. Dr. Louis has made great strides for the service and for the field of OMFS. Well known for complex TMJ surgery, orthognathic, trauma, and zygomatic implants. Trained at UAB.
• Program Director: Dr. Kathlyn Powell, DMD, MD
  • Trained UAB with subsequent pediatric fellowship under Dr. Waite at UAB. Focuses on a broad scope of pediatric OMFS.
• Former Program Chair: Dr. Peter Waite, MPH, DDS, MD, FACS, Charles A. McCallum Endowed Chair
  • One of the biggest minds in OMFS of our generation and the longest tenured OMFS chairs in the country– he is well known for Cosmetic Surgery and orthognathic surgery. One of the 4 editors of Peterson’s OMFS. Past President of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Trained at UAB.
• Dr. Somsak Sittitavornwong, DDS, DMD, MS
  • Trained at UAB and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Known for trauma, TMJ, nerve repairs.
• Dr. Anthony Morlandt DDS, MD
  • Trained at UAB with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at UF Jacksonville. Now is the UAB Chief of Oral Oncology, and is a fellowship director.
• Dr. Yedeh Ying, DMD, MD
  • Trained at MGH with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at OHSU. Another very busy attending on our H&N service.
• Dr. Brian Kinard, DMD, MD
  • Trained at Emory with a subsequent advanced orthognathics fellowship at Georgetown under Dr. Posnick. Focus on orthognathics and complex orthognathics cases involving syndromic children.
• Dr. Jay Ponto, DMD, MD
  • Trained at Kings County with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at OHSU. Very busy attending on our H&N service and loves teaching residents.
• Dr. Jaime Castro-Nunez, DMD
  • Part time dental school and part time OR. Trained at El Bosque University. Practices the full traditional scope of OMFS. An advocate for the residents and will be one of the first attendings to hand you a scalpel, even as an intern.
• Dr. Brendan Squier, DMD, MD
  • Our newest faculty. Trained at UAB with a subsequent fellowship in orthognathic surgery/TMJ. Loves teaching residents and a great person to get a beer with.
• Dr. Warren Arrasmith, DMD
  • Trained at UAB. Director of undergraduate clinic.
• Dr. Michael Kase, DMD
  • Trained at UAB Prosthodontics with subsequent Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center. One of the only full time Maxillofacial Prosthodontists in the country.

Program Culture:
UAB is a program deeply rooted in southern hospitality. The residents are all genuinely nice and hang out. We are a diverse group of residents. Residents grab dinner, grab beers, etc. We are a social program with the policy of work hard, play hard. With 4 residents per year, we have a diverse group of residents (People come from all over and are all sorts of ethnicities) - some have families and some are single. This is also reflected in the diversity of ethnicities and cultures seen in our faculty as well. The staff are also great and as generous as they come. It is very easy to fit in with our motley crew.

Call/Hospitals:
We cover 4 main hospitals on call-University Hospital, UAB Highlands Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Callahan Eye Hospital. The furthest hospital is within a 5 minute drive (Highlands), the rest are walkable.

Call is taken by the interns on a roughly a q5-7 basis. We are always on for call odontogenic infections, and take trauma call 2.5 weeks every month. There are no anatomical restrictions, anything on the face barring the brain and eyes come to us. We take trauma call on the 8th-14th and 22nd-end of the month every single month. Trauma call is basically split ½ OMFS, ¼ ENT, ¼ Plastics. Call is to taken in the hospital for 1st call providers. Our call rooms are pristine and are extremely comfortable to stay in. There is a large bathroom with a shower, and an overnight room with coffee/snacks down the hall.

Birmingham:
Birmingham will defy your previous conceptions about Alabama. Please do not write Birmingham off the list because it is in Alabama. The city is nice, clean, has great facilities and has an awesome vibe. There are tons of breweries, restaurants and a great night life. Birmingham is very different from the rest of the state. Major changes have been happening to the city with more restaurants, bars, breweries opening. Tech is starting to move to here as well – Read WSJ and Forbes article on Birmingham’s tech renaissance. On top of this, people are very friendly, in line with the tropes of southern hospitality. Residents typically buy houses and are able to sell easily when they leave. Mortgage for a 3 bedroom house can be as low as $1200 per month. We are 1 hour 45 minutes from Atlanta, 2 hour and 30 mins from Nashville, 4 hours from Pensacola and Destin Beach and 5 hours from New Orleans. In the suburbs south of Birmingham, there is an extremely affluent area with old money and new money. (This is also a plus in that people can afford all on 4s/all on 6s) The education systems are insane and consistently send kids to prestigious schools.

Notable Alumni Currently involved in OMFS:
These are the alumni in top academic positions who are currently active outside of UAB.

• Dr. Rui Fernandes, DMD, MD, FACS, FRCS – Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UF Jacksonville Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Luis Vega, DMD - Program Director of Vanderbilt Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Dane St. John, DMD, MD - Former Program Director of LSU New Orleans Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Daniel Meara, DMD, MD, FACS - Program Chair of Christiana Care Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Lewis Jones, DMD, MD - Assistant Professor at University of Louisville Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a focus in Craniofacial surgery
• Dr. Angelo Cuzalina, DDS, MD – Cosmetic Surgeon and fellowship director at Tulsa Surgical Arts. Past President of American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. Practices full body cosmetics with reconstructing with flaps anywhere on the body.
• Dr. Dina Ameen, DDS, Assistant Professor at Emory University Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Grady Memorial hospital
• Dr. Todd Hanna, DDS, MD - Head and neck surgeon based at Lennox Hill hospital - Double fellowship trained (OMFS and ENT fellowships) Head and neck recon and cosmetics

Externship (ON HOLD DUE TO COVID-19):
Our externs will see a wide scope and OMFS and get their hands dirty. They will work alongside residents in our Kirklin clinic, in the operating room, and participate in taking tooth and trauma call. We invite all 3rd and 4th year dental students (2nd year if you have done injections) to come and spend time at our program to see and judge for themselves how UAB may be a fit for them and to see a great program. This is a hands-on externship and we expect externs to work hard and to take call when they are here. You may stay with a resident the entire time so this is a relatively cheap externship!

More information can be found by exploring the site and contacting the program coordinator at [email protected]:

Conclusion:
If you train at UAB, you will be exposed to every aspect within and beyond OMFS without sacrificing bread & butter OMFS – this is as full scope as you can be. The expectation is that you will work your ass off for 6 years because there are so many cases at this program and you will be trained at such a high level by the end. On top of this, you will live in an amazing city and come out in an absolutely amazing financial situation due to the cheap cost of med school, cheap cost of living, and the ability to buy a house and accumulate capital during residency. Don’t forget about that BBQ and juicy fried chicken!

 

[J-stripper]

Anyone have an update on Vanderbilt or UF Gainesville?

 

[odontogenesis]

Miami, MUSC, Tufts, UT Houston?

 

[deleted1196239]

Updated from the previous Program Overview.

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) OMFS Program Overview

This program is one that is rich in tradition and history. We are one of the oldest 6 year OMFS programs in the country. If you search UAB in these forums, you will see the high praise of the program throughout the years. In the last 10 years, we have made proud strides and have increased the number of OR cases and have almost doubled the number of faculty as our service continues to grow. Our program has evolved a ton that it is different from what it was even 2 years ago.

Overview:
6-year MD integrated program with 4 residents per year

• Attend UAB med school #31 nationally ranked medical school (UAB has been ranked in the 20s- 30s depending on the year). UAB SOM graduates have a great reputation among various residency programs, and the students routinely match into competitive programs across the country. Tuition for med school is currently ~35k/yr. You auto-qualify for in-state tuition and you are paid for the months on service in 3rd year (salary for 1/3 of the year.)
• UAB is an impressive hospital. One of the largest academic medical campuses in the country. The medical campus is in the heart of the city, and Birmingham is the life source for the state. Alabama’s success is very closely tied to UAB’s success, so it’s always on the cutting edge. Check out the rankings for specialties within UAB hospital (US News) – it is a medical hotspot in the Southeast. Anything ranked is impressive because there are hundreds of med residencies per specialty. Most hospitals in the country (especially southern hospitals) do not have a vast majority of their specialties ranked or in a high performing category.
• The reputation of the residents within the hospital is excellent. Many attendings and services say that the OMFS residents are the best residents in the hospital because they’re responsive, willing to go the extra mile, are friendly, and provide good quality work. Our department is well respected and our OR privileges prove it.

The Numbers:
We do it all. We are a total scope program with heavy dentoalveolar, trauma, orthognathics, reconstruction, cosmetics, craniofacial (secondary clefts), and head and neck cancer. We can perform full IV sedation cases as first years after a sedation course in July of intern year (only 1-2 other programs have this) and our implant numbers are high. Interns can place around 40+ with increasing numbers as you rise the ranks – Most leave having placed between 100-200 implants, but some place more than that.

• We have multiple clinics and multiple ORs running simultaneously every single day! We work at University Hospital, UAB Highlands, Birmingham VA medical center, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Callahan Eye clinic, The Kirklin Clinic and UAB dental school.
• Children’s and UAB are all Level one trauma hospitals.
• CODA Procedure Categories (From 2020. Has increased substantially since then):
  Trauma - 517
  Pathology – 1305*
  Orthognathic - 238
  Reconstruction/Cosmetics – 1342
• OR Procedures per Chief – 850.5 (CODA requires 175/chief)
• Other Categories:
  Outpatient Visits – 55,615
• Implants placed/year - 1432

Unique Features:

• Our service treats 5s and 6s as “chiefs” (6s have the administrative responsibilities to run the service) so they will NEVER be in the same OR together. There is essentially 8 chiefs on different rotations. As a 6, you will make the schedule and be allowed to choose your rotations and decide on what services you will want to rotate on. You are required to do only 1 month of the head and neck service as a chief but you may do more months if you are interested.
• As interns, you are split into 1) OR/Clinic, 2) School of Dentistry and 3)Head&Neck. You spend a month on each at a time. This structure allows interns to have great exposure to H&N without sacrificing the other important aspects of OMFS.
• Dentoalveolar - Our dentoalveolar experience is unrivaled. In our VA rotation first year, you run the VA service as an intern with NO upper level and do full dentoalveolar - IV sedation of full bony impacted 3rds, sinus lifts, all on 2s. We can do full IV sedations with propofol, fentanyl, versed, ketamine after taking our sedation course with Dr. Louis in July of intern year. On top of this you are on a separate dental school rotation as the only intern with one upper level seeing 30-40 patients a day also doing full dentoalveolar - it is a very busy day. The chiefs will usually take the more complicated/interesting cases such as multi implant cases.
• Head & Neck: We have one of the highest free flap numbers in the country along with one of the highest malignant/benign pathology numbers. Our attendings Dr. Morlandt, Dr. Ying and Dr. Ponto have grown our H&N service to be an amazing experience and its reputation has been on the rise. We do as many free flaps overall as our ENT Service (#29 ranked in the country so it is a strong program). On top of this, we actually do more fibula free flaps than our ENT brethren. We account for 80-90% of bony flaps for our insitution. Our rotations are 1-month at a time so you will only rotate on H&N every 4 months. We have one fellow that does not take away the experience on cancer like other programs.
• We have a PA for Dr. Louis’ TMJ clinic/ day consults and a PA for our H&N clinic/OR. We have RNFAs that assist in the OR as well.
• Trauma: We are on face call twice as much trauma call as Plastics and ENT so we receive a majority of the trauma cases. UAB is considered the only ATLS level 1 trauma center in the state, while Children's of Alabama is the only pediatric level 1 trauma center in the state.
• No tooth call. Hospital dentistry will take care of this. We will, however, handle odontogenic infections, isolated alveolar ridge fractures.

Schedule:

• Year 1: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Internship (12 months OMFS which includes 4 rotations - H&N, VA, Dental School, OR/Clinic) Get 6 weeks off in the Spring to finish studying for and take/Pass Step 1. This allows you to skip the first two years of medical school.
• Year 2: Third year of medical school (Clerkships)
• Year 3: July to March - Fourth year of Med school (8 months – 3 are mandatory acting internships, 5 are electives (20 weeks) of your choosing like Craniofacial, Occuloplastics, ENT etc) March to June – 4 months of OMFS on service as a Junior resident
• Year 4: General Surgery Internship (7 months General Surgery, 4 months Adult Anesthesia, 1 month Peds Anesthesia)
• Year 5: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Senior (12 months OMFS)
• Year 6: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Chief (12 months OMFS)

Research:
All residents are expected to participate in at least one project and produce a publishable product.

• Many research opportunities - UAB hospital is #21 nationally in NIH funding.
• Affiliated UAB dental school has the #1 NIH research funding in the country among dental schools

Resident School demographics:
Our current residents have come all over the country including but limited to UPenn, Michigan, UCSF, UNC, Maryland, UAB, UConn, UT San Antonio, UT Houston, USC, Tennessee, Ohio State, Western, SUNY Buffalo, Louisville, UNE, Columbia etc.

OMS Full-Time Faculty (One of the largest full time faculty staff):

• Program Chairman: Dr. Patrick Louis, DDS, MD
  • One of the longest reigning program directors in the country. Dr. Louis has made great strides for the service and for the field of OMFS. Well known for complex TMJ surgery, orthognathic, trauma, and zygomatic implants. Trained at UAB.
• Program Director: Dr. Kathlyn Powell, DMD, MD
  • Trained UAB with subsequent pediatric fellowship under Dr. Waite at UAB. Focuses on a broad scope of pediatric OMFS.
• Former Program Chair: Dr. Peter Waite, MPH, DDS, MD, FACS, Charles A. McCallum Endowed Chair
  • One of the biggest minds in OMFS of our generation and the longest tenured OMFS chairs in the country– he is well known for Cosmetic Surgery and orthognathic surgery. One of the 4 editors of Peterson’s OMFS. Past President of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Trained at UAB.
• Dr. Somsak Sittitavornwong, DDS, DMD, MS
  • Trained at UAB and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Known for trauma, TMJ, nerve repairs.
• Dr. Anthony Morlandt DDS, MD
  • Trained at UAB with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at UF Jacksonville. Now is the UAB Chief of Oral Oncology, and is a fellowship director.
• Dr. Yedeh Ying, DMD, MD
  • Trained at MGH with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at OHSU. Another very busy attending on our H&N service.
• Dr. Brian Kinard, DMD, MD
  • Trained at Emory with a subsequent advanced orthognathics fellowship at Georgetown under Dr. Posnick. Focus on orthognathics and complex orthognathics cases involving syndromic children.
• Dr. Jay Ponto, DMD, MD
  • Trained at Kings County with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at OHSU. Very busy attending on our H&N service and loves teaching residents.
• Dr. Jaime Castro-Nunez, DMD
  • Part time dental school and part time OR. Trained at El Bosque University. Practices the full traditional scope of OMFS. An advocate for the residents and will be one of the first attendings to hand you a scalpel, even as an intern.
• Dr. Brendan Squier, DMD, MD
  • Our newest faculty. Trained at UAB with a subsequent fellowship in orthognathic surgery/TMJ. Loves teaching residents and a great person to get a beer with.
• Dr. Warren Arrasmith, DMD
  • Trained at UAB. Director of undergraduate clinic.
• Dr. Michael Kase, DMD
  • Trained at UAB Prosthodontics with subsequent Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center. One of the only full time Maxillofacial Prosthodontists in the country.

Program Culture:
UAB is a program deeply rooted in southern hospitality. The residents are all genuinely nice and hang out. We are a diverse group of residents. Residents grab dinner, grab beers, etc. We are a social program with the policy of work hard, play hard. With 4 residents per year, we have a diverse group of residents (People come from all over and are all sorts of ethnicities) - some have families and some are single. This is also reflected in the diversity of ethnicities and cultures seen in our faculty as well. The staff are also great and as generous as they come. It is very easy to fit in with our motley crew.

Call/Hospitals:
We cover 4 main hospitals on call-University Hospital, UAB Highlands Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Callahan Eye Hospital. The furthest hospital is within a 5 minute drive (Highlands), the rest are walkable.

Call is taken by the interns on a roughly a q5-7 basis. We are always on for call odontogenic infections, and take trauma call 2.5 weeks every month. There are no anatomical restrictions, anything on the face barring the brain and eyes come to us. We take trauma call on the 8th-14th and 22nd-end of the month every single month. Trauma call is basically split ½ OMFS, ¼ ENT, ¼ Plastics. Call is to taken in the hospital for 1st call providers. Our call rooms are pristine and are extremely comfortable to stay in. There is a large bathroom with a shower, and an overnight room with coffee/snacks down the hall.

Birmingham:
Birmingham will defy your previous conceptions about Alabama. Please do not write Birmingham off the list because it is in Alabama. The city is nice, clean, has great facilities and has an awesome vibe. There are tons of breweries, restaurants and a great night life. Birmingham is very different from the rest of the state. Major changes have been happening to the city with more restaurants, bars, breweries opening. Tech is starting to move to here as well – Read WSJ and Forbes article on Birmingham’s tech renaissance. On top of this, people are very friendly, in line with the tropes of southern hospitality. Residents typically buy houses and are able to sell easily when they leave. Mortgage for a 3 bedroom house can be as low as $1200 per month. We are 1 hour 45 minutes from Atlanta, 2 hour and 30 mins from Nashville, 4 hours from Pensacola and Destin Beach and 5 hours from New Orleans. In the suburbs south of Birmingham, there is an extremely affluent area with old money and new money. (This is also a plus in that people can afford all on 4s/all on 6s) The education systems are insane and consistently send kids to prestigious schools.

Notable Alumni Currently involved in OMFS:
These are the alumni in top academic positions who are currently active outside of UAB.

• Dr. Rui Fernandes, DMD, MD, FACS, FRCS – Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UF Jacksonville Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Luis Vega, DMD - Program Director of Vanderbilt Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Dane St. John, DMD, MD - Former Program Director of LSU New Orleans Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Daniel Meara, DMD, MD, FACS - Program Chair of Christiana Care Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Lewis Jones, DMD, MD - Assistant Professor at University of Louisville Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a focus in Craniofacial surgery
• Dr. Angelo Cuzalina, DDS, MD – Cosmetic Surgeon and fellowship director at Tulsa Surgical Arts. Past President of American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. Practices full body cosmetics with reconstructing with flaps anywhere on the body.
• Dr. Dina Ameen, DDS, Assistant Professor at Emory University Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Grady Memorial hospital
• Dr. Todd Hanna, DDS, MD - Head and neck surgeon based at Lennox Hill hospital - Double fellowship trained (OMFS and ENT fellowships) Head and neck recon and cosmetics

Externship (ON HOLD DUE TO COVID-19):
Our externs will see a wide scope and OMFS and get their hands dirty. They will work alongside residents in our Kirklin clinic, in the operating room, and participate in taking tooth and trauma call. We invite all 3rd and 4th year dental students (2nd year if you have done injections) to come and spend time at our program to see and judge for themselves how UAB may be a fit for them and to see a great program. This is a hands-on externship and we expect externs to work hard and to take call when they are here. You may stay with a resident the entire time so this is a relatively cheap externship!

More information can be found by exploring the site and contacting the program coordinator at [email protected]:

Conclusion:
If you train at UAB, you will be exposed to every aspect within and beyond OMFS without sacrificing bread & butter OMFS – this is as full scope as you can be. The expectation is that you will work your ass off for 6 years because there are so many cases at this program and you will be trained at such a high level by the end. On top of this, you will live in an amazing city and come out in an absolutely amazing financial situation due to the cheap cost of med school, cheap cost of living, and the ability to buy a house and accumulate capital during residency. Don’t forget about that BBQ and juicy fried chicken!

Dr Amin’s spelling is wrong.
Solid program
Much less malignant attendings even though UAB does a lot of cancer
Very well rounded program
Tons of alumni got matched to fellowships

 

[Hemingway3132]

Anyone have an update on Louisville?

 

[ferfax]

Updated from the previous Program Overview.

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) OMFS Program Overview

This program is one that is rich in tradition and history. We are one of the oldest 6 year OMFS programs in the country. If you search UAB in these forums, you will see the high praise of the program throughout the years. In the last 10 years, we have made proud strides and have increased the number of OR cases and have almost doubled the number of faculty as our service continues to grow. Our program has evolved a ton that it is different from what it was even 2 years ago.

Overview:
6-year MD integrated program with 4 residents per year

• Attend UAB med school #31 nationally ranked medical school (UAB has been ranked in the 20s- 30s depending on the year). UAB SOM graduates have a great reputation among various residency programs, and the students routinely match into competitive programs across the country. Tuition for med school is currently ~35k/yr. You auto-qualify for in-state tuition and you are paid for the months on service in 3rd year (salary for 1/3 of the year.)
• UAB is an impressive hospital. One of the largest academic medical campuses in the country. The medical campus is in the heart of the city, and Birmingham is the life source for the state. Alabama’s success is very closely tied to UAB’s success, so it’s always on the cutting edge. Check out the rankings for specialties within UAB hospital (US News) – it is a medical hotspot in the Southeast. Anything ranked is impressive because there are hundreds of med residencies per specialty. Most hospitals in the country (especially southern hospitals) do not have a vast majority of their specialties ranked or in a high performing category.
• The reputation of the residents within the hospital is excellent. Many attendings and services say that the OMFS residents are the best residents in the hospital because they’re responsive, willing to go the extra mile, are friendly, and provide good quality work. Our department is well respected and our OR privileges prove it.

The Numbers:
We do it all. We are a total scope program with heavy dentoalveolar, trauma, orthognathics, reconstruction, cosmetics, craniofacial (secondary clefts), and head and neck cancer. We can perform full IV sedation cases as first years after a sedation course in July of intern year (only 1-2 other programs have this) and our implant numbers are high. Interns can place around 40+ with increasing numbers as you rise the ranks – Most leave having placed between 100-200 implants, but some place more than that.

• We have multiple clinics and multiple ORs running simultaneously every single day! We work at University Hospital, UAB Highlands, Birmingham VA medical center, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Callahan Eye clinic, The Kirklin Clinic and UAB dental school.
• Children’s and UAB are all Level one trauma hospitals.
• CODA Procedure Categories (From 2020. Has increased substantially since then):
  Trauma - 517
  Pathology – 1305*
  Orthognathic - 238
  Reconstruction/Cosmetics – 1342
• OR Procedures per Chief – 850.5 (CODA requires 175/chief)
• Other Categories:
  Outpatient Visits – 55,615
• Implants placed/year - 1432

Unique Features:

• Our service treats 5s and 6s as “chiefs” (6s have the administrative responsibilities to run the service) so they will NEVER be in the same OR together. There is essentially 8 chiefs on different rotations. As a 6, you will make the schedule and be allowed to choose your rotations and decide on what services you will want to rotate on. You are required to do only 1 month of the head and neck service as a chief but you may do more months if you are interested.
• As interns, you are split into 1) OR/Clinic, 2) School of Dentistry and 3)Head&Neck. You spend a month on each at a time. This structure allows interns to have great exposure to H&N without sacrificing the other important aspects of OMFS.
• Dentoalveolar - Our dentoalveolar experience is unrivaled. In our VA rotation first year, you run the VA service as an intern with NO upper level and do full dentoalveolar - IV sedation of full bony impacted 3rds, sinus lifts, all on 2s. We can do full IV sedations with propofol, fentanyl, versed, ketamine after taking our sedation course with Dr. Louis in July of intern year. On top of this you are on a separate dental school rotation as the only intern with one upper level seeing 30-40 patients a day also doing full dentoalveolar - it is a very busy day. The chiefs will usually take the more complicated/interesting cases such as multi implant cases.
• Head & Neck: We have one of the highest free flap numbers in the country along with one of the highest malignant/benign pathology numbers. Our attendings Dr. Morlandt, Dr. Ying and Dr. Ponto have grown our H&N service to be an amazing experience and its reputation has been on the rise. We do as many free flaps overall as our ENT Service (#29 ranked in the country so it is a strong program). On top of this, we actually do more fibula free flaps than our ENT brethren. We account for 80-90% of bony flaps for our insitution. Our rotations are 1-month at a time so you will only rotate on H&N every 4 months. We have one fellow that does not take away the experience on cancer like other programs.
• We have a PA for Dr. Louis’ TMJ clinic/ day consults and a PA for our H&N clinic/OR. We have RNFAs that assist in the OR as well.
• Trauma: We are on face call twice as much trauma call as Plastics and ENT so we receive a majority of the trauma cases. UAB is considered the only ATLS level 1 trauma center in the state, while Children's of Alabama is the only pediatric level 1 trauma center in the state.
• No tooth call. Hospital dentistry will take care of this. We will, however, handle odontogenic infections, isolated alveolar ridge fractures.

Schedule:

• Year 1: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Internship (12 months OMFS which includes 4 rotations - H&N, VA, Dental School, OR/Clinic) Get 6 weeks off in the Spring to finish studying for and take/Pass Step 1. This allows you to skip the first two years of medical school.
• Year 2: Third year of medical school (Clerkships)
• Year 3: July to March - Fourth year of Med school (8 months – 3 are mandatory acting internships, 5 are electives (20 weeks) of your choosing like Craniofacial, Occuloplastics, ENT etc) March to June – 4 months of OMFS on service as a Junior resident
• Year 4: General Surgery Internship (7 months General Surgery, 4 months Adult Anesthesia, 1 month Peds Anesthesia)
• Year 5: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Senior (12 months OMFS)
• Year 6: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Chief (12 months OMFS)

Research:
All residents are expected to participate in at least one project and produce a publishable product.

• Many research opportunities - UAB hospital is #21 nationally in NIH funding.
• Affiliated UAB dental school has the #1 NIH research funding in the country among dental schools

Resident School demographics:
Our current residents have come all over the country including but limited to UPenn, Michigan, UCSF, UNC, Maryland, UAB, UConn, UT San Antonio, UT Houston, USC, Tennessee, Ohio State, Western, SUNY Buffalo, Louisville, UNE, Columbia etc.

OMS Full-Time Faculty (One of the largest full time faculty staff):

• Program Chairman: Dr. Patrick Louis, DDS, MD
  • One of the longest reigning program directors in the country. Dr. Louis has made great strides for the service and for the field of OMFS. Well known for complex TMJ surgery, orthognathic, trauma, and zygomatic implants. Trained at UAB.
• Program Director: Dr. Kathlyn Powell, DMD, MD
  • Trained UAB with subsequent pediatric fellowship under Dr. Waite at UAB. Focuses on a broad scope of pediatric OMFS.
• Former Program Chair: Dr. Peter Waite, MPH, DDS, MD, FACS, Charles A. McCallum Endowed Chair
  • One of the biggest minds in OMFS of our generation and the longest tenured OMFS chairs in the country– he is well known for Cosmetic Surgery and orthognathic surgery. One of the 4 editors of Peterson’s OMFS. Past President of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Trained at UAB.
• Dr. Somsak Sittitavornwong, DDS, DMD, MS
  • Trained at UAB and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Known for trauma, TMJ, nerve repairs.
• Dr. Anthony Morlandt DDS, MD
  • Trained at UAB with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at UF Jacksonville. Now is the UAB Chief of Oral Oncology, and is a fellowship director.
• Dr. Yedeh Ying, DMD, MD
  • Trained at MGH with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at OHSU. Another very busy attending on our H&N service.
• Dr. Brian Kinard, DMD, MD
  • Trained at Emory with a subsequent advanced orthognathics fellowship at Georgetown under Dr. Posnick. Focus on orthognathics and complex orthognathics cases involving syndromic children.
• Dr. Jay Ponto, DMD, MD
  • Trained at Kings County with a subsequent head and neck fellowship at OHSU. Very busy attending on our H&N service and loves teaching residents.
• Dr. Jaime Castro-Nunez, DMD
  • Part time dental school and part time OR. Trained at El Bosque University. Practices the full traditional scope of OMFS. An advocate for the residents and will be one of the first attendings to hand you a scalpel, even as an intern.
• Dr. Brendan Squier, DMD, MD
  • Our newest faculty. Trained at UAB with a subsequent fellowship in orthognathic surgery/TMJ. Loves teaching residents and a great person to get a beer with.
• Dr. Warren Arrasmith, DMD
  • Trained at UAB. Director of undergraduate clinic.
• Dr. Michael Kase, DMD
  • Trained at UAB Prosthodontics with subsequent Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center. One of the only full time Maxillofacial Prosthodontists in the country.

Program Culture:
UAB is a program deeply rooted in southern hospitality. The residents are all genuinely nice and hang out. We are a diverse group of residents. Residents grab dinner, grab beers, etc. We are a social program with the policy of work hard, play hard. With 4 residents per year, we have a diverse group of residents (People come from all over and are all sorts of ethnicities) - some have families and some are single. This is also reflected in the diversity of ethnicities and cultures seen in our faculty as well. The staff are also great and as generous as they come. It is very easy to fit in with our motley crew.

Call/Hospitals:
We cover 4 main hospitals on call-University Hospital, UAB Highlands Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Callahan Eye Hospital. The furthest hospital is within a 5 minute drive (Highlands), the rest are walkable.

Call is taken by the interns on a roughly a q5-7 basis. We are always on for call odontogenic infections, and take trauma call 2.5 weeks every month. There are no anatomical restrictions, anything on the face barring the brain and eyes come to us. We take trauma call on the 8th-14th and 22nd-end of the month every single month. Trauma call is basically split ½ OMFS, ¼ ENT, ¼ Plastics. Call is to taken in the hospital for 1st call providers. Our call rooms are pristine and are extremely comfortable to stay in. There is a large bathroom with a shower, and an overnight room with coffee/snacks down the hall.

Birmingham:
Birmingham will defy your previous conceptions about Alabama. Please do not write Birmingham off the list because it is in Alabama. The city is nice, clean, has great facilities and has an awesome vibe. There are tons of breweries, restaurants and a great night life. Birmingham is very different from the rest of the state. Major changes have been happening to the city with more restaurants, bars, breweries opening. Tech is starting to move to here as well – Read WSJ and Forbes article on Birmingham’s tech renaissance. On top of this, people are very friendly, in line with the tropes of southern hospitality. Residents typically buy houses and are able to sell easily when they leave. Mortgage for a 3 bedroom house can be as low as $1200 per month. We are 1 hour 45 minutes from Atlanta, 2 hour and 30 mins from Nashville, 4 hours from Pensacola and Destin Beach and 5 hours from New Orleans. In the suburbs south of Birmingham, there is an extremely affluent area with old money and new money. (This is also a plus in that people can afford all on 4s/all on 6s) The education systems are insane and consistently send kids to prestigious schools.

Notable Alumni Currently involved in OMFS:
These are the alumni in top academic positions who are currently active outside of UAB.

• Dr. Rui Fernandes, DMD, MD, FACS, FRCS – Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UF Jacksonville Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Luis Vega, DMD - Program Director of Vanderbilt Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Dane St. John, DMD, MD - Former Program Director of LSU New Orleans Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Daniel Meara, DMD, MD, FACS - Program Chair of Christiana Care Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dr. Lewis Jones, DMD, MD - Assistant Professor at University of Louisville Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a focus in Craniofacial surgery
• Dr. Angelo Cuzalina, DDS, MD – Cosmetic Surgeon and fellowship director at Tulsa Surgical Arts. Past President of American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. Practices full body cosmetics with reconstructing with flaps anywhere on the body.
• Dr. Dina Ameen, DDS, Assistant Professor at Emory University Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Grady Memorial hospital
• Dr. Todd Hanna, DDS, MD - Head and neck surgeon based at Lennox Hill hospital - Double fellowship trained (OMFS and ENT fellowships) Head and neck recon and cosmetics

Externship (ON HOLD DUE TO COVID-19):
Our externs will see a wide scope and OMFS and get their hands dirty. They will work alongside residents in our Kirklin clinic, in the operating room, and participate in taking tooth and trauma call. We invite all 3rd and 4th year dental students (2nd year if you have done injections) to come and spend time at our program to see and judge for themselves how UAB may be a fit for them and to see a great program. This is a hands-on externship and we expect externs to work hard and to take call when they are here. You may stay with a resident the entire time so this is a relatively cheap externship!

More information can be found by exploring the site and contacting the program coordinator at [email protected]:

Conclusion:
If you train at UAB, you will be exposed to every aspect within and beyond OMFS without sacrificing bread & butter OMFS – this is as full scope as you can be. The expectation is that you will work your ass off for 6 years because there are so many cases at this program and you will be trained at such a high level by the end. On top of this, you will live in an amazing city and come out in an absolutely amazing financial situation due to the cheap cost of med school, cheap cost of living, and the ability to buy a house and accumulate capital during residency. Don’t forget about that BBQ and juicy fried chicken!

why doesn't UAB have non-cats?

 

[MonteOMFS]

Montefiore Medical Center - 2024/2025 Program Update

Hello current and future applicants! We love our program, but acknowledge the lack of information out there about us. There have been some significant changes in our program and it was time for an update. Montefiore Medical Center (MMC) is a 4 year OMFS program in the Bronx, NY. We match 5 residents per year and a variable number of non-cats (4 last year, 6 this year). Non-cats MUST have completed a GPR-1. We are friendly to Canadian applicants. We rotate at several off-campus sites, get great dentoalveolar, implant, orthognathic, reconstructive, and trauma experience.


Basic Overview:
Year 1 (5 months OMFS, 3 months Anesthesia, 2 months of Gen Surg, and 2 months of medicine)

• Anesthesia (3 months): On anesthesia, you’ll be acting as a first year anesthesia resident. You run your own OR under the supervision of an attending anesthesiologist. By the end of your anesthesia rotation you will be comfortable inducing, intubating, managing, and emerging patients from general anesthesia. You will not have issues reaching your pediatric anesthesia requirements. While on rotation you do not take oral surgery call.
• General Surgery (2 months): Residents function as a first year general surgery resident. You manage the floor, place orders and write notes. Occasionally you help cover clinic or head to the OR. This rotation is intended to help you learn how to manage complex pre- and post-op surgical patients, understand the inner workings of the hospital and of the EPIC system.
• Medicine (2 months): Residents participate in daily rounds and implement skills learned in the physical diagnosis class.

Year 2 (6 months OMFS, 3 months Anesthesia, 2 months of Gen Surg, and 1 month of Surgical-ICU)

• Second year residents rotate sites monthly. As a second year you are still a junior resident but have increased responsibility. Now that you’ve been on anesthesia, you run your own sedations and help teach interns the ropes. Anesthesia and general surgery rotations are the same as first year. Instead of 2 months of medicine, in your second year you do 1 month on a SICU rotation. You round with the ICU team and learn more about managing medically complex patients in the perioperative period. You get some exposure to the OR including extraction and infection cases.

Year 3 (11 months OMFS – Montefiore, Hackensack, St. Luke’s, 1 month oculoplastics)

• Third year residents rotate sites approximately every 10 weeks with 1 month for oculoplastics. As a senior resident you spend most of the year on the OMFS service. You will rotate through different clinical sites doing IV sedations all day (we do IV sedations 5 days a week in each of our main clinics) while also supervising the first and second year residents. These clinic cases include placing most of the implants and procedures like sinus lifts and bone grafting. Didactically, you will be creating presentations for trauma, implant, and orthognathic conferences. When in the OR, you are 2nd operator for every case. Our attendings are very invested in teaching but do not typically cut - you and the chief are expected to split most cases. As a third year you take backup call ~ 2 weeks at a time.
• Oculoplastics is a new 1 month rotation we’ve added this past year. Residents will be working in the clinic and in the OR on cases with Dr. Anne Barmettler. You dive right in and are assisting or cutting on cases such as blepharoplasties, entropion/ectropion repair, brow lifts, retraction repairs with grafting, biopsies and enucleations. In the clinic, you will split your time between consults and helping with basic procedures. This is a great rotation and our first class to complete it really enjoyed their experience.

Year 4 (12 months OMFS: Montefiore (Moses, Blondell, Schiff) Hackensack, St. Luke’s:

• At our main clinic you are responsible for running the entire service. You will be organizing cases for the OR, completing the more complex implant cases in the clinic, and closely working up new cases with the attendings.
• At St. Luke’s and Hackensack, the responsibilities do not change significantly, though you’re expected to be helping your PGY3 get more comfortable in the OR.
• PGY4’s are all given time off to attend AAOMS each year
• Our program provides compensation and time for a 1-week board review course.

Total 34 months of OMFS

Scope
We are a broad-scope program, including ample training in dentoalveolar surgery, implants, sedations/anesthesia, orthognathic, pediatric cases, TMJ, infections, benign pathology, reconstruction, and trauma.

• Dentoalveolar: The Bronx and our outside sites provide plenty of opportunities to take out teeth. You will be more than comfortable managing any dentoalveolar case and administering in office sedation.
• TMJ: Dr. Bastidas and Dr. Glied both regularly see TMJ patients. We offer a full spectrum of options ranging from conservative treatments like TMJ Botox and arthrocentesis, to aggressive treatment like total TMJ replacement.
• Infections: Between all of our sites we see a large number of infections and residents get very comfortable managing these cases both surgically and medically.
• Dental Implants: This is a major strength of our program. Annually we average more than 3500 implants placed, with 60% of those placed by residents. Most cases are free handed but we have access to 3D printed guides. Dr. Nolan has started the use of the X-nav system and also places zygomatic implants. We are also very lucky to have prosthodontics residents sharing our main clinic, and coordinate with them for same-day full mouth rehabilitation cases.
• Orthognathic: We have a steady stream of referrals from our in-house orthodontic department and outside providers throughout NY and NJ. More than 95% of our cases are custom cases. We work with Stryker, BioMet and Synthes. Our residents are very comfortable treating, planning and performing orthognathic surgery. At Hackensack, you will typically split the 4-6 cases per week between the PGY3, PGY4 and fellow. Over PGY3 / PGY4 you will cut *a lot.*
• Trauma: We get good exposure to trauma at Montefiore. We do not cover Level 1 trauma centers in the Bronx and the majority of our cases are isolated mandibles, zygomas and orbits. We cover trauma every day of the year at the Wakefield campus and cover every other day at Weiler and Moses. The 40 total weeks spent at St. Luke’s (Level I Trauma) and Hackensack (Level I Trauma) as a third and fourth year are when we are exposed to more complex cases like panfacial traumas.
• Pathology/Reconstruction: We do not do malignant pathology or free flaps. We do benign path, from ameloblastomas to OKCs. We also treat MRONJ and ORN patients. For reconstruction, we get exposure to mandibular autografts, iliac crest grafts and the occasional rib graft.
• Craniofacial: We do not have a craniofacial attending on our faculty but we will operate on alveolar cleft grafting and orthognathic surgery for cleft patients.
• Cosmetics: We do not currently have a cosmetically trained surgeon on our faculty. We do some facial feminization surgeries for patients, some post-trauma revision, and you will complete blepharoplasties while on oculoplastics.
• Sedations/Anesthesia: This is another strong point of our program. We have a busy clinic and run sedations 5 days/week. We get great anesthesia experience in the hospital and an abundance of practice with in office sedations. Residents do not have trouble meeting CODA sedation requirements.

Facilities:
We cover three main campuses at Montefiore, and our clinics are associated with these three campuses. They are within a ~15 minute radius of each other.

• Centennial: This is our only clinic where attendings see their own patients. There is also an operatory dedicated to residents where we see local and IV sedations. Dr. Wiltz, Dr. Nolan, and Dr. Bastidas have full schedules and see a variety of cases. Cases vary between implants, bone grafts, expose and bonds, biopsies and extractions are completed. Residents help the clinic run smoothly by completing consults, follow ups, local anesthesia cases and completing IV sedation cases while guided by our attendings.
• Schiff: Is an extremely busy and entirely resident run clinic. Residents complete on average 6-10 sedations daily and many more local anesthesia cases. This is where residents become very comfortable with extractions, expose and bonds, apicoectomies, and biopsies. No implants are placed at this clinic.
• Blondell: Is considered more of a private practice model with more patients who pay out of pocket for bone grafts and implants. On average 6 sedations are completed here daily, in addition to the standard extractions, expose and bonds, and biopsies.

Outside Rotations:
As PGY3 and PGY4s, you will rotate at two additional sites for 10 weeks at a time.

• Hackensack Medical Center: This PGY3/PGY4 rotation has a heavy focus on orthognathic and reconstructive work. We work directly with Dr. Shahid Aziz and his fellow at two locations: Edison, NJ and the Hackensack, NJ campus. Dr. Aziz brings an incredible number of cases to the OR. In an average week you can expect to complete 4-6 orthognathic or reconstructive cases in the OR and multiple TMJ arthroscopies, dentoalveolar or pathology cases in the ambulatory surgical center. We take trauma call 365 days per year. You will be compensated for the commute and we do not take in-house call. Dr. Aziz typically goes on a mission trip each year, and two residents have the opportunity to go with him.
• St. Luke’s: This PGY3/PGY4 rotation is in Bethlehem, PA roughly 2 hours from the Bronx. You will be given an apartment and parking for the duration of the rotation. You work with multiple attendings at different clinics. The attendings are actually on primary call and we see patients in the AM before clinic, and you typically have every other weekend off. This rotation is similar to a private practice format where you are in the clinic during the day doing sedations and any OR cases are addressed after clinic hours. St. Luke’s is a trauma level I center, and we get high numbers of cases.

Call
Categorical interns and non-cats take the most primary call, generally ~q6 (one of the benefits of a large program). Second year residents also take primary call (~2-3 calls a month). Due to NY state regulation, we get a post call day.

We cover 3 Montefiore campuses when on call: Moses, Wakefield and Weiler. They are within ~15 minutes of each other. We are on Trauma 365 days at Wakefield and are on every other day at Moses and Weiler Hospitals. Thankfully, we have a GPR team who gets called first. They help triage patients and can help set up for I+D’s or lacerations if it is beyond their comfort levels. We rarely splint teeth in the ED. We have a dedicated call room.


Attendings:
Montefiore:
- Dr. Patrick Nolan - Program director
- Dr. Jairo Bastidas - OMFS Chief
- Dr. Mauricio Wiltz
- Dr. Jason Baker
- Dr. Allen Glied

St. Luke’s:
- Dr. Wayne Saunders

Hackensack:
- Dr. Shahid Aziz


Stipend:
You are paid a stipend ~$73k-85k.

Lectures/Didactics:

• We have basic science, anesthesia, and physical diagnosis courses that are taken during the first 3 months of the intern year.
• Oral pathology lectures are given throughout the year
• Orthognathic conferences are held twice monthly with our orthodontic residency. Case examples are reviewed from pre-orthodontics to postoperative results. Residents are involved with virtual surgical planning (VSP’s) for all orthognathic cases.
• Implant conference is held monthly with our prosthodontic residency. We work very closely with these residents in our clinic, and this is a great opportunity to look at cases with restoration in mind.
• Patient Care Conference is held weekly, and presented cases are reviewed in a boards-style approach.
• Multiple cadaver courses are made available throughout residency, including basic anatomy and orthognathic cadaver courses.
• Plating and implant workshops are held annually
• Residents who present research at the AAOMS national meeting receives departmental funding to attend
• We are encouraged to attend many weekend courses and lectures, and have many CE opportunities throughout the year

Research
Research is not a focus of our program and it is not required. If you are interested our attendings are happy to assist you in your endeavors, and likely have some ideas floating around. In the past our residents and attendings have published a Botox protocol for TMJ and on Precedex usage for IV sedation.

Volunteer / Mission Trips:
We send multiple residents annually to Bangladesh with Dr. Aziz for a cleft / craniofacial mission trip. We also send residents to Jamaica with other NYC OMFS residents for a more dentoalveolar focused mission trip. Our program size allows us to cover our clinics normally while also providing these opportunities to residents.

The Bronx:
Roughly half of our residents live in Manhattan and the other half live in resident housing or in the Bronx close to the hospital. Resident housing is affordable and spacious compared to the rest of NYC. Living close to the hospital is great for early morning rounds! There is a garage for resident housing and another for those that live elsewhere. Parking at both locations costs $60 a month for residents. There are two subways within walking distance of the hospital that can have you downtown in ~45 minutes. Yankee baseball stadium is 5 stops away, and as the official hospital for the Yankees we get $5 tickets to several games a year. The Mets stadium and the Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium (site of US Open) is only a 20 minute drive. You have three airports (JFK, LaGuardia and Newark) in the area to facilitate your getaways, but obviously being in NYC there is plenty to do here.

Vacation
Each resident gets 4 weeks of vacation. You get the weekend before and after your week off for a total of 9 days off at a time. Vacation is taken when on service. The Chiefs all are mandated to take the last two weeks of June off – this facilitates certificates for faster licensing.

Residents:
Our team is large and diverse. We have residents from throughout the US and Canada. Many residents are married, engaged, and/or have children. We have a great resident culture and try to spend time together outside of the clinic. We have a “social chair” who helps organize informal dinners, hangouts and other events. We all work hard in the clinic but also like to enjoy all that NYC has to offer. Our residents truly enjoy our program and think that more people should know about our residency.

Program Strengths / Highlights:

• Positive resident culture and attendings who truly love to teach
• Resident-led program. Third and fourth years cut the cases at Monte and at our outside rotations. You will not just be holding sticks
• Program size allows us to go on mission trips - we send multiple residents to Bangladesh with Dr. Aziz and to Jamaica with NYC residents annually
• Extensive dentoalveolar, implant and sedation experience.
• Manageable call schedule with post-call days for primary call – this can be seen as controversial, but I’d argue the fact that as an intern / PGY2 you can get OR experience if you’d like to on post-call days is a great opportunity
• We are a large program, which means you have even more people to learn from than usual. We do not fall short on experience due to the number of residents, plus it allows us to better compensate for residents who are doing things like charity dental trips, boards review courses, or other external learning experiences
• Location - NYC is an area where you are not only going to see a diverse patient population, you are never going to run out of things to do on golden weekends

Externships
We try to host as many externs as possible. It is a great way to see the program culture and the day to day of residency life. Externs go to OR cases and also get to spend time in our various clinics. Please reach out if interested!

 

[newomfs]

University of Missouri – Kansas City 2024-2025 Update

Combined 6-Year Dual Degree and 4-Year Degree Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program

(We take 3 residents per year, two 6 year residents and one 4 year resident)

Hello everyone! This may be a little late for applications but just wanted to provide some information about our program as it does not seem that there has been any update in a while.


General Topics:

• Kansas City is a great place to live. It is not as big as other metropolises in the nation but it is not a small place. Plenty of good places to live around here as well as good BBQ places. There are good school districts in the area for kids.
• Within the hospital, the reputation of our service is great. Everyone from anesthesia, the medical school, vascular, GI, general surgery, you name it, they love us. We try to live by the three A’s (affable, available, and able). According to a general surgery resident, OMFS is the backbone of general surgery!
• Kansas City is very trauma heavy, especially during the warm weathers. We cover three level 1 hospitals (Saint Lukes, University Health (UH) [formerly known as Truman Medical Centers], and Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH)). Throughout all of these hospitals, we cover ALL facial trauma that comes in, and do not share anything with ENT or plastics for coverage. We get tons of trauma experience throughout our residency from soft tissue closures from lacerations to broken faces. UH and CMH are conveniently connected to each other while Saint Lukes is a 12 minute drive from UH/CMH.
• We do not treat any malignant pathology. We refer that out to our ENT colleagues here. Besides malignant pathology, we are a total scope program and routinely perform orthognathic surgeries, trauma, dentoalveolar, infection, benign pathology, reconstruction, TMJ (we do several joint replacement surgeries every year). We perform a lot of avascular reconstructions, as we do not have any microvascular/head and neck trained staff.
• For our 6-year program, you can get in-state tuition for medical school if you live in Missouri, and regional state tuition discount if you live in Kansas.
• The program culture here is very great. Everyone is very friendly with each other and very willing to help out with one another. All the staff are very approachable. The program consists of a variety of different ethnicities, and there is no discrimination at all. We all get along and there are many times the residents will get together to play tennis, or hang after clinic or during the weekends to play board games.
• Unfortunately, our program is a little more top heavy, which means unless a case goes to the OR while you are on call, residents do not get to go to the OR much unless they are PGY-2 or above.
• There may be a reputation of our program always taking our own non-categorical intern, but this is not true. Over the past several years, we have taken people from outside of our own program. Overall, we try to match the residents who we see would be the best match to our program.

Lectures:
We have protected lecture time every Wednesday morning from 7:00-8:30. One great part of our lectures is that we have Dr. Aparna Naidu, an oral pathologist, give us lectures every last Wednesday of the morning, as a case based presentation. It is great to be able to delve into oral pathology cases with her, and both the staff and residents appreciate this. We try to split our lectures with guest lectures from outside practicing oral surgeons, our own residents, and staff.

In addition to lectures, we have a journal club every last Wednesday of the month where we will go over selected articles and discuss how they impact/affect our daily practice.

Several times throughout the year, at least 2-3 times, we will have cadaver labs, and be able to go through the different approaches to the facial skeleton with staff around. During this time, we are able to practice our cuts and skills without any danger to patients.


Research:
Research is not a focus in our program and is not required.


Vacation:
Residents will get 3 weeks of vacation a year. Unfortunately, you will have to take a week at a time. It is first come first serve, and depends on who is available during that month or week in terms of residents on service.


Externships:
We are available for in-person externships but are willing to do virtual externships (AKA zoom meetings) as well if you would like to talk to some of the residents in our programs! Please feel free to reach out!


Schedules for the different tracks:
With the combined program, it only differs with the PGY-1 and PGY-2 years, but the ultimate OMFS time is essentially the same. I will break it down into the respective tracks for both the 6 year and the 4 year below.


Call Schedule
As a PGY1, you will take primary call at our main hospital University Health as well as Children's Mercy Hospital. This is an IN-HOUSE call, and we have 2 call rooms available in the hospital.
As a PGY2-3, you will be taking call at St. Lukes, one week (usually once a month) but this is AT-HOME call.

PGY1's will usually take primary call every 3-4 days (Usually around 7-8 days total out of the month) whenever they are on service at University Health/Children's Mercy Hospital

PGY2-3's may take primary call at a few times in the beginning of the year for buddy call but eventually will transition to the 1-week call at St. Lukes.

Starting with the 4 year overview:
Year 1 (5 months anesthesia, 7 months OMFS)

• Anesthesia (5 months): You essentially jump straight right into 5 months of anesthesia. You will spend July being on service, getting used to the hospital and clinic before you go onto anesthesia. Our main hospital has an SRNA teaching program and you’ll be treated like a first-year anesthesia resident/SRNA (there is no anesthesia program at our hospital). You usually have 1-2 weeks where you may be paired with a senior SRNA but afterwards, you pretty much run your own rooms. You don’t take typically OMFS call while you’re on the rotation, and we take somewhere a small amount of call when on anesthesia (not more than 6 nights). You can get anywhere from 150-200 cases over the 5 months, with TIVA in the GI suite, intubation/LMA placement in the OR.
• OMFS (7 months): While on service, you will be managing patients in the hospital, taking call, seeing patients in clinic. We cover two level 1 trauma center hospitals (one adult, and one children, conveniently attached to each other) as an intern. Categorical interns usually will take 7 days of call a month, while non-categorical interns will take around 6. We take buddy call for the first month (whether you have done an internship or not) just to make sure everyone is on the same page. After your anesthesia rotation, you will be able to do sedations in clinic.

Year 2 (2 months OMFS, 4 months medicine [infectious disease, Medical ICU, pulmonary/critical care, cardiology], 6 months general surgery)

• 4 months of medicine include being on the service for infectious disease, medical ICU, pulmonary/critical care, cardiology (1 month each). During this time, you are treated as a medical resident on that respective service and are expected to study/read up on cases, conditions of the patients that come on that time on rounds or whenever you are on call.
• General Surgery (6 months): Residents will be treated as a first year general surgery intern, taking call overnight for trauma, as well as fielding consults and rounding on inpatients throughout the day. Residents rotate through different surgical specialties as well including (ENT, Plastics, Vascular, ICU, Neurosurgery) in addition to general surgery. You will be able to go to the OR for cases, and you will also have to cover clinic at times. It is great to be able to develop skills to be able to manage patients for any surgical complications
• OMFS (2 months): Duties are similar to when you were a first year, but now you start taking call at another hospital (St. Lukes, which is an adult hospital, another level 1 trauma center), a week at a time, working directly with the attendings who take call and in direct communication. There are a few different staff that take call here compared to the ones you take call at as an intern. You are able to do more sedations in clinic.

Year 3 (4 months OMFS, 4 months private practice rotation, 4 months dental school) (PGY3 year for a 4-year track versus 6-year track is identical)

• OMFS (4 months): Duties are similar to year 2, you will help run the OMFS clinic a bit more and help out some of the PGY1 and PGY2 residents if they get stuck with a case. Again, you are taking call at Saint Lukes. You will go to the OR much more during this year and help out with the surgeries.
• Dental School Rotation (4 months): We don’t spend too much time at the dental school except for this rotation. You have your own op room/consult room in the oral surgery clinic, and you see your own patients, loosely staffed by the oral surgery staff there (who are different staff than the staff at the hospital). You pretty much run your own sedations here and develop your own treatment plans. You don’t interact with the students too much unless you want to. Students do have to come to you to help plan their implant treatments with their patients, (implants that you will be able to place after helping them plan the case).
• Private Practice Rotation (4 months): You rotate with Dr. Prstojevich, who has two private practice locations that you alternate through over the week. You’ll be able to see how private practice runs, and see patients who are either private insurance, cash pay, or patients from the hospital for follow up while you take call with Dr. Prstojevich. This is a great rotation and you’ll be able to place many implants, perform bone grafting (obtaining block grafts, allograft/autograft, sticky bone, sinus lifts, etc.) during this rotation with Dr. Prstojevich.

Year 4 (9 months OMFS, 1 month pediatric anesthesia, 2 months craniofacial)

• OMFS (9 months): During our last year (identical for both 4-year and 6-year tracks), we spend 9 months on service, 4 months as active chief and 5 months as a side chief. As active chief, anything that comes in over the three level 1 trauma center hospitals that we cover, you will be the one cutting. You will be responsible for running the entire service (making big decisions), rounding daily, and reporting to the attending about the status of patients. You will also be the main cutting resident with any planned surgeries as well. For the most part, the active chiefs do all the cutting on a case. As a side chief, you will get to cut usually the other side of a case, if applicable.
• Pediatric anesthesia (1 month): Although we deal with anesthesia and sedations throughout most of our residency, our chairman likes the residents to do 1 month of pediatric anesthesia at our children’s hospital in our last year so that we review and are able to do intubations again before we leave. By this time, we have no worries about getting our number of pediatric and adult anesthesia case numbers.
• Craniofacial Surgery (2 months): We spend 2 months rotating with our plastics colleagues over at the children’s hospital, and are treated pretty much as a rotating plastics resident. Through this rotation, we are able to take part in cleft lip/palate surgeries, cranial vault surgeries, pediatric plastic surgeries, flaps, etc. We will take call with the attendings like a plastics resident would when they rotate here.

With the 6-year track overview:

Year 1 (5 months OMFS, 5 months anesthesia, 1 month study) (OMFS and anesthesia is copied and pasted from above)

• Anesthesia (5 months): You almost jump straight right into 5 months of anesthesia but you spend July being on service, getting used to the hospital, and clinic before you go onto anesthesia. Our main hospital has an SRNA teaching program and you’ll be treated like a first-year anesthesia resident/SRNA (there is no anesthesia program at our hospital). You usually have 1-2 weeks where you may be paired with a senior SRNA but afterwards, you pretty much run your own rooms. You don’t take OMFS call while you’re on the rotation, and we take somewhere a small amount of call when on anesthesia (not more than 6 nights). You can get anywhere from 150-200 cases over the 5 months, with TIVA in the GI suite, intubation/LMA placement in the OR.
• OMFS (5 months): While on service, you will be managing patients in the hospital, taking call, seeing patients in clinic. We cover two level 1 trauma center hospitals (one adult, and one children, conveniently attached to each other) as an intern. Categorical interns usually will take 7 days of call a month, while non-categorical interns will take around 6. We take buddy call for the first month (whether you have done an internship or not) just to make sure everyone is on the same page. After your anesthesia rotation, you will be able to do sedations in clinic.
• Study Month (1 month): With the 6 year track, you are expected to pass Step 1 by April of the following year you start as you do your medical schools in years 2 and 3 of the program. To help out with this, you are given a 1 month study month sometime in October or November. During this month, you are still taking call (only 6 days) but only during the night. The rest of the time is yours to do whatever with (studying…?!?). Usually the 6 days of call will be front loaded as best as possible to give you the rest of the days to study. You will need to take a CBSE test proctored by the medical school before they will allow you to take Step 1.

Year 2 (12 months of medical school)
Start off right into the core rotations and clerkships as a M3. Rotate through different rotations of medical school. You are able to moonlight during medical school, and this is encouraged to keep your hand skills so long as it is not affecting your studies.


Year 3 (11 months of medical school, 1 month OMFS)

• Finish off the last required cores of medical school and take/pass Step 2. You have a lot of time/rotation months where you can try to moonlight versus taking rotations to make the most out of your medical school curriculum.

Year 4, PGY-2 Status (6 months of general surgery, 4 months of dental school, 2 months OMFS) (all described as above)


Year 5, PGY-3 Status (8 months OMFS, 4 months private practice rotation) (as above)


Year 6, (9 months OMFS, 1 month pediatric anesthesia, 2 months craniofacial) (as above)




If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out by direct messaging me.

 

[umkcomfsresident2024]

I am a resident at UMKC. I would like to add to our training, resident culture, finances, and our non-categorical internships.

Training:
We only do 2 years of medical school and people who come from other states will routinely get in-state tuition while here for those 2 years. We only pay 2 years of tuition. During the medical school our program hooks you up with a job in the community and pays for your malpractice. The only restriction is you won't really have the time to drive out of the city to do other jobs in the area. Our medical school offers a lot of freedom to grow in your personal and professional life compared to others in the country.

Our medical school is also one of the few 6-year MD programs in the country you can apply for out of high school and they have a history of taking legacies if you want your kids to have that option available.

The hospital re-imburses you for BLS, ACLS, PALs, and step 3.

During your dental school rotation you are the sole resident in the dental school. Your nurse and assistant setup and help you do your sedations with no attending intervention. All they do is supervise as you learn to do 4 full bonies under sedation in 15 minutes. There are a significant amount of implant overdentures so you will get really good at planning them and placing them whether guided or free-hand. You place them yourselves. Not your attendings. Not your upper levels.

We routinely repair children's facial soft tissue trauma in the children's hospital ED. They are routinely less than age 12 and this will make you very comfortable with airway management and pediatric sedations than most graduating residents.

The craniomaxillofacial rotation at Children's will let you learn a significant amount of craniomaxillofacial surgery from plastic surgeons trained in the field. You will become very comfortable with maxillofacial reconstruction and at least basic craniofacial surgery (non-cleft gnathic). Other surgeries like orbital advancements you will be involved in but realistically you will not do when you are done unless you want to pursue a CMF fellowship.

We do a significant amount of TMJ and orthognathic in our own program as well.

A good percentage of our graduates routinely make in the very high 6 and low 7 figures straight out due to the well rounded and rigorous training pathway. Our chairman, Dr. Ferguson, is a past president of AAOMS who is very well connected and can get you a job or fellowship if that is your desire.

Also: we passed accreditation this month. If you come here, you will graduate from an accredited program.

Resident Culture:

We believe in being responsible, available, affable as residents. We have a good group of intelligent and polite individuals who show up and get the work done. We cover for each other because that is the resident culture we want. People get sick we cover. Life events come up, we try to make it work. Realistically you can't have everything but having a good support network and being a part of our family is important to us. A lot of us are transplants here and coming from a coast, it is much more affordable to live here as a resident. It is easier to live here with less traffic. You will have an opportunity to work hard and enjoy your life at the same time compared to other programs on the coasts that gate-keep you.

We have monthly journal clubs at restaurants in the city. someone else will pay. enough said.

Our interactions with our attendings is amazing. It is helpful guidance.

Finances:

Affordable cost of living. People routinely buy houses. If you are in the 6 year program, living on the Missouri side will give you instate tuition for those 2 med school years.

The hospital re-imburses you for BLS, ACLS, PALS, and step 3.

Instate tuition for those 2 years. During the medical school our program hooks you up with a job in the community and pays for your malpractice. The only restriction is you won't really have the time to drive out of the city to do other jobs in the area.

Non-categorical/ Transitional year Internships:

We have 4 non-cats a year. 2 in the hospital and 2 in the dental school. We try to make it so your life is not miserable like other non-cats. We still expect you to work though. We enjoy teaching you and guiding you. We want you to succeed and hope that is your desire as well. We offer a lot of clinical experience at our program. especially full bonies, trauma, TMJ and orthognathic work ups which is what the majority of hospital based OMFS do.

Our program's interns have a good match record for motivated applicants. Dr. Ferguson has a habit of getting people into programs with all of the connections he has made. Your time will not be wasted so long as you are nice, do your work, and show up on time.

Our dental school internship is a little more relaxed for those needing time to study for the CBSE. You still take 4-5 calls a month at CMH and TMC and will get comfortable with the hospital setting. Our residents in the dental school try to get you guys involved with sedations, implants, implant planning as well. We also will bring you guys along to the Children's ED if a consult needs to be seen mid-day since the dental school and Children's Mercy ED are right next to each other.

Our hospital internship is a bit more intense. You will be on call, in the clinic, and doing intern responsibilities in the hospital during the day. You still take 4-5 calls a month at CMH and TMC and will get comfortably with the hospital setting.

Our interns have a good match record and while we have a habit of taking our interns, it doesn't guarantee you a spot here. We also routinely interview people from school and other internships for our 6 year spots.

Thanks for reading. I hope we get an opportunity to meet for the interview.

 

[UW OMS]

University of Washington - 2024/2025 Program Update

Hello future oral surgery residents! I am a current resident at the UW and want to share information about our great program with you all. I appreciate how challenging it is to know about all these different programs when all you have is websites and social media. Until this year, our interviews were virtual, so there is little known about our program. Between my coresidents and myself we interviewed at over 30 programs, and we all agree that UW is a great program. Below I have included relevant information about our program that I think will be helpful for you to know as you apply.


Basic Overview:

Year 1
During our first year we started out with 6 months as an intern before beginning medical school and dedicated STEP 1 study time. Our 6 months begin with 4 months at Harborview which is our main site then 2 months in our outpatient dentoalveolar clinic. Going from dental school to being an intern in a level I trauma center can be daunting, and the transition is intense, however you quickly learn to adjust. After the first 4 months, you move to our outpatient clinic where you get more experience taking out wisdom teeth and doing routine consults. During the last couple of months, you will have more free time to enjoy Seattle, study for STEP I, work on research projects etc. During our internship we have a foundations of clinical medicine course where we have two internal medicine instructors dedicated to teaching us H&P for about 3 hours per week.
Then we take STEP 1 in Feb/early Mar, and we get dedicated time to study and work on research projects from Jan 1st to the beginning of spring term of medical school. You then start in medical school as an MS3 and begin clinical rotations.

Year 2
During this year continue to do clinical rotations and advance to an MS4 standing. More info about our medical school is below.

Year 3

In year 3 we graduate medical school, get that sweet MD, and go back to getting paid. We completed two months of anesthesia before coming back to service at Harborview to complete our intern year.

Year 4
12 months of General Surgery for which we get 2 years of ACGME credit. This is split between UWMC and Harborview medical center. During this year, we complete various general surgery rotations including trauma ICU, surgical ICU, general trauma surgery, and craniofacial surgery.

Year 5
From this point on we are back on service full time. The year is split into three separate 4-month blocks
One block dedicated to cleft and craniofacial surgery at Seattle Children's hospital. During this block we also complete our pediatric anesthesia training. During this time, you are the primary operator and act as chief of service.
One block is dedicated to HMC, and you begin to get operative experience in some of our major cases and manage complex patients.
One block is dedicated to dentoalveolar and orthognathic surgery at multiple sites including VA, UWNW, UWMC, and our outpatient clinic.

Year 6
Our chiefs split their time between Harborview medical center and our outpatient dentoalveolar clinic where they run IV sedations and refine their skills extracting third molars and other complex dentoalveolar procedures.
Total 34 months of OMFS

Scope:
Trauma: Harborview is the only Level 1 trauma center in the state of Washington, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho and we see all the level 1 trauma for these areas, we split trauma evenly with Plastics and ENT and it makes for a busy service
Orthognathics: At Harborview we do a fair amount of orthognathic surgery, it is typically 1 to 2 cases per week at the minimum. We get additional orthognathic experience during our 5th year rotations at UW-NWH and get good cleft orthognathic experience at Seattle Children’s Hospital. We get to operate with a lot of different surgeons and see a lot of different methods/techniques.
TMJ: We do everything from arthrocentesis to total joint replacements. We get a healthy amount without it taking over our program.
Head and Neck: At Harborview we have recently increased our case load. We have always had a component of this with Dr. Dillon doing the ablative portion of the procedure but with the addition of Dr. Kevin Lee we have been doing the entire procedure from start to finish. We have been able to keep this very balanced and there is no chance it will take over the program. Most residents really enjoy these surgeries and have a lot of fun during the procedure.
Cleft/ Craniofacial: Most programs are lacking in this aspect. We do get some experience at Harborview with Dr. Gaal who is fellowship trained, and he is the process of increasing this portion of his practice. In addition to this Dr. Gaal takes a resident to Boliva every year and for a 1-week cleft trip. Our main craniofacial experience is through Seattle Children’s Hospital where we participate in cleft surgery, cleft orthognathic, craniofacial reconstruction and more with Dr. Egbert and Dr. Susarla.

Facilities:
Harborview Medical Center (HMC): Harborview is our home base. This is the site where we do most our major operations such as fibula free flaps, total joint replacements, orthognathic, our trauma cases, and a lot of infection cases. We have guaranteed OR time 3-4 days a week. We are so busy that it is occasionally not enough, and we add a second room or a fifth day to fit in trauma and infection cases.
Northwest Center for Oral and Facial Surgery (NOFS): This site is our outpatient dentoalveolar clinic. This is where we get most of our sedation experience, which is primarily completed by the chief residents. Interns do about 80% of the local cases that come through the clinic including impacted third molars.

VA: At the VA residents get experience with implants and more dentoalveolar procedures.

Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH): Senior residents rotate through SCH and get operative experience with our attendings over there. A 5th year resident is the acting chief resident of Children’s Hospital. During this rotation, residents will be the first assist for dental, orthognathic, and craniofacial cases. We also cover call for infections at SCH however we rarely get called in as the pediatric dental residents typically can manage most of the dental infections.

University of Washington Montlake Campus (UWMC): We operate at UWMC 2-3 times per month in addition to covering craniofacial and infection call. We primarily have benign path, orthognathic, or tooth cases here. At this location, the chief is usually the primary operator with a single intern to assist them. For call we usually also do not get called in as most trauma is sent to Harborview and there is a GPR that can handle most dental related consults.

University of Washington Northwest: As a senior we occasionally rotate through UWNW, however this is only for orthognathic cases, and we do not cover this hospital for call.

Call:
Primary call is split between all the interns (3 categorical and 4 non-categorical) and is about q5. We cover HMC, SCH and UWMC every day for infection/dentoalveolar call which I cover site specifics above. We split craniofacial trauma evenly with plastics and ENT with 1-2 weekdays and power weekends every third weekend. Infection call is home call and trauma call is in house. Our trauma call is so busy that it would not make sense to take it from home. During call nights interns gain experience draining abscesses/hematomas, repairing lacs (sometimes large and complex), reducing alveolar fractures, controlling bleeding, etc. Seniors are on call for 1 week at a time and are very approachable. We do not have a culture of not asking your senior questions, they are all very helpful and will even come in for bigger trauma cases such as GSWs, large dog bites etc.
We are the only level I trauma center in the state of Washington and the region. We cover Level I trauma for Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho in addition to all of Washington, which means we are incredibly busy and see everything from gunshot wounds to horse kicks.
We sometimes get post-call if HMC is not busy. Regardless of whoever is, post-call will usually go home by noon, but usually earlier.

Attendings:
Jasjit Dillon MBBS, DDS, FDSRCS, FACS: Dr. Dillon is our program director, chief of service and fearless leader. She is incredibly supportive of all of us and has helped shape the program into what it is today. Dr. Dillon does a lot of complex cases including cancer, trauma, benign pathology, TMJ and nerve injuries. Her experience and knowledge are vast and deep. Dr. Dillon will go down in the OMFS hall of fame as one of the best and being trained by her is a privilege. She will be president of the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial surgeons and is the section editor for pathology for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Thomas Dodson DMD, MPH: Dr. Dodson is our program chair and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. For residents interested in research he has been incredibly valuable. He mostly operates at UWMC and oversees the NWCOFS clinic.

Austin Gaal DDS, FACS: Dr. Gaal is a graduate of UW OMS and completed a craniofacial fellowship in Oklahoma. He has built a cleft/craniofacial practice at HMC and goes on several cleft trips per year which senior residents are welcome to join. He also does a lot of complex orthognathic, TMJ and trauma surgery. He is currently doing an MPH which will add to his expertise.

Kevin Lee DDS, MD: Dr. Lee is a new addition to our UW team. He is a microvascular head and neck surgeon and has been building up a practice at HMC. The residents love to operate alongside Dr. Lee, even those not interested in Head and Neck somehow find that they enjoy the time spent on his cases. It is rumored he has a Fanclub at his alma mater of Columbia.

Zahid Lalani DDS, PhD, MBA: Dr. Lalani is one of our newer attendings at HMC, he also operates at UWMC. Dr. Lalani recently stepped away from private practice to pursue academia. Dr. Lalani has a passion for teaching and mentoring and will spend time and effort helping residents.

Melanie Lang DDS, MD: Dr. Lang came to UW having spent 16 years in private practice. . Her practice is centered at UWMC and UWNW. She has an interest in pediatric sedations at NWCOFS and has a booming orthognathic practice. She is also on the state leadership for dentistry.

Andrea Burke DMD, MD: Dr. Burke primarily works through UWMC and UWNW and senior residents will be getting experience with her for orthognathic cases. She also completed an NIH research fellowship and is a valuable resource in helping residents with research projects.

Srinivasa Susarla DMD, MD, MPH: Dr. Susarla primarily operates at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and is currently the chief of the craniofacial department at SCH. He is dual trained in OMS and plastic surgery and is a big part of getting residents exposed to complex craniofacial surgery cases at SCH such as cleft lip/palate repairs, fronto-orbital advancements, and cleft orthognathic surgery.

Mark Egbert DDS: Dr. Egbert operates through Seattle Children’s Hospital. He served as the immediate past president of AAOMS and is a valuable resource for residents. He is an excellent surgeon, whose practice is filled with cleft orthognathic and craniofacial surgery.

Stipend: R1 salary is about 76K, we additionally receive about $12 daily for food which can be redeemed for cash. We have a union and receive annual cost of living raises.

Lectures/Didactics:
Every Tuesday morning, we are blocked off for didactics. Our attendings will organize lectures and teach us focused topics. We have an interdisciplinary conference with the orthodontic residency to collaborate on complex cases. We also organize lectures for each other on complex cases or topics of interest.

Vacation:
4 weeks of vacation per year taken in 1-week blocks

Residents:
Our resident culture is very collegial and friendly. When free, we have activities outside of work where residents get together at breweries, each other's houses, vendor sponsored events. Some residents have spouses and children and others are single. We are a diverse bunch and very welcoming to anyone, upon matching all the residents reached out to congratulate and welcome me.

If you are interested in UW, we welcome you to extern with us for one week and check the program out for yourself. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or follow this link for more information OMS Externship Program

 

[The Kube of Kubes]

Anyone have info on the new Willis Knighton program in Shreveport?

 

[piratewow]

Anyone have info on the new Willis Knighton program in Shreveport?

Current resident here, giving an extensive informed overview like many of the previous posts is impossible as the program is still growing and rotations will change as we have come to have a full roster of upper and lower level residents. That being said our 3 main faculty are all dual trained in cleft/craniofacial as well as head and neck/microvascular reconstruction, one part-time faculty is micro trained, and our VA attending has >30 years in private practice experience.

Strengths of the program:
Truly full scope with high surgical volume- benign/malignant path, dentoalveolar, trauma, orthognathics, TMJ, cosmetics, cleft and craniofacial. For example in just one week we did:
TJR, Lefort1/TJR, arthrocentesis
Tracheostomy x2
Nasopalatal debridement
Submandibular abscess drainage and extractions
Cleft palate x2
ORIF ZMC x2
Partial thyroidectomy, SCCa of nose resection and rotational flap, SCCa of tongue resection with radial forearm free flap
Some smaller surgeries- extractions, tori, small cyst removal, laser ablations, etc. as well as ER procedures like lacs/abscesses

Surgical autonomy- Many programs or residents will say they have done X amount of cases whereas in reality they really just retracted for the attending. The faculty will often just let the fellow/resident do the whole case or just be there to guide them as needed.

Pay- 60k goes very far in Shreveport, LA. All cafeteria meals are fully compensated (I think the daily limit is like 50-60$ but I've never hit it). Driving between hospitals is paid for, and we have a couple grand a year to spend on education/conferences.

Private hospital- A lot of the "scut" work that plagues many programs isn't an issue here. You don't have to spend time faxing documents, spending hours waiting for CT scans to be uploaded or taken, call/schedule your own patients, follow up on clearances. Your job is to come in and see patients in clinic or be in the OR and cutting. Additionally, even though we do malignant path, nurses do flap checks for us, no Q4 or Q6H resident flap checks.

Call- Q6 home call, so no nights spent sleeping in the hospital. Additionally, they will prepare things for you. Ex if there's a vestibular abscess or a lac to repair you just let the nurse know what you need, so by the time you drive over all you need to do is talk to the patient, write a consult note, and do the procedure. If you have questions, attendings will answer your 2 AM phone call, which is pretty unheard of.

Maximal time on service- 36 months of OMFS is pretty much the most you can get in a 4 year program.

Didactics- Usually only 2 hrs a week, no full "didactics" days aka sitting in a lecture hall falling asleep. Most of the learning is hands on, or through direct patient care.

Weaknesses
The program is still developing so not everything is fully fleshed out
We do operate at 5 hospitals so you will drive between hospitals (4/5 are only 10-15 min apart) on an almost daily basis.
Shreveport is still Shreveport

 

[maxfaxxscalpel]

Current resident here, giving an extensive informed overview like many of the previous posts is impossible as the program is still growing and rotations will change as we have come to have a full roster of upper and lower level residents. That being said our 3 main faculty are all dual trained in cleft/craniofacial as well as head and neck/microvascular reconstruction, one part-time faculty is micro trained, and our VA attending has >30 years in private practice experience.

Strengths of the program:
Truly full scope with high surgical volume- benign/malignant path, dentoalveolar, trauma, orthognathics, TMJ, cosmetics, cleft and craniofacial. For example in just one week we did:
TJR, Lefort1/TJR, arthrocentesis
Tracheostomy x2
Nasopalatal debridement
Submandibular abscess drainage and extractions
Cleft palate x2
ORIF ZMC x2
Partial thyroidectomy, SCCa of nose resection and rotational flap, SCCa of tongue resection with radial forearm free flap
Some smaller surgeries- extractions, tori, small cyst removal, laser ablations, etc. as well as ER procedures like lacs/abscesses

Surgical autonomy- Many programs or residents will say they have done X amount of cases whereas in reality they really just retracted for the attending. The faculty will often just let the fellow/resident do the whole case or just be there to guide them as needed.

Pay- 60k goes very far in Shreveport, LA. All cafeteria meals are fully compensated (I think the daily limit is like 50-60$ but I've never hit it). Driving between hospitals is paid for, and we have a couple grand a year to spend on education/conferences.

Private hospital- A lot of the "scut" work that plagues many programs isn't an issue here. You don't have to spend time faxing documents, spending hours waiting for CT scans to be uploaded or taken, call/schedule your own patients, follow up on clearances. Your job is to come in and see patients in clinic or be in the OR and cutting. Additionally, even though we do malignant path, nurses do flap checks for us, no Q4 or Q6H resident flap checks.

Call- Q6 home call, so no nights spent sleeping in the hospital. Additionally, they will prepare things for you. Ex if there's a vestibular abscess or a lac to repair you just let the nurse know what you need, so by the time you drive over all you need to do is talk to the patient, write a consult note, and do the procedure. If you have questions, attendings will answer your 2 AM phone call, which is pretty unheard of.

Maximal time on service- 36 months of OMFS is pretty much the most you can get in a 4 year program.

Didactics- Usually only 2 hrs a week, no full "didactics" days aka sitting in a lecture hall falling asleep. Most of the learning is hands on, or through direct patient care.

Weaknesses
The program is still developing so not everything is fully fleshed out
We do operate at 5 hospitals so you will drive between hospitals (4/5 are only 10-15 min apart) on an almost daily basis.
Shreveport is still Shreveport

Do they take foreign graduate dentists?

 

[Mount Sinai OMFS NYC]

Hey everyone, I figured it would be good to post this info here!
We made a program overview Instagram post with all of the relevant details:
We currently have 1 spot available for a categorical 6-year resident starting at PGY-1. Please see this post for details: Categorical OMFS Residency Position Available @ Mount Sinai Health System, NYC
We also have a spot available for a non-categorical resident.
Please message this account with any questions and good luck to all the applicants!

 

[JerrysFirstMolar]

Can we get an update for NSU/Broward? Especially with the intro of 6-year path.

 

[dentq15]

Henry Ford Warren Hospital (formerly known as Ascension Macomb-Oakland / St John) - 2025 Program Update

We know we have not been very present ONLINE. But this is a legit full-scope OMFS residency with a big Head and Neck team service. We love our program and everyone gets along very well here. Henry Ford Macomb-Oakland is a 6-yr OMFS program in Detroit, MI with 3yr-MD program at Wayne State University Medical School. We match 3 residents per year and a varying number of non-categoricals. We cover multiple hospitals, a separate dentoalveolar clinic, cleft-craniofacial clinic, orthognathic cases, head and neck reconstructive service, and 24/7/365 Level 1 trauma experience. We have Head and Neck fellowship (1-2 fellows per year) with program director Dr. Carlos Ramirez.

General Information:
We are very busy and highly respected service at the hospital. There is no Plastics or ENT to compete. We are it. All face injuries and infections come to us 24/7/365 at 1 Level-1 hospital, 2 Level-2 hospitals, 2 Level-3 hospitals. ED/Other departments love seeing us at any of our hospitals.

We have OMFS OR block days that are filled up everyday. There are 3 full-time attending (2 of them are head and neck fellowship trained, 1 is craniofacial fellowship trained). Flap check all done by ICU nurses. There are also multiple part-time attendings covering infections, and trauma, and bringing orthognathic cases.

On-call ~q3-4 depending on the number of non-categoricals. Home call. Post-call at noon sharp the next day. No matter what you are doing, you are going home at noon following your call day.

Protected didactics every Friday morning from 7am to 11am. Most of the time, upper class residents will give lectures but a lot of lectures are provided by attendings as well.

Medical School is long (3 years) and requires separate application process.. but you get in-state tuition ~40k/yr. You also get paid a 1 year salary (~60k) stretched over those 3 years of medical school so you are employed throughout with health insurance/benefits. Medical school education for your step 1 and 2.

Basic Overview:
Year 1 (2 Months total of OMFS, 10 Months of Medical School)

• Mostly medical school YR-1. During the holidays/ break from med school, you are on service as primary PGY-1 taking calls, covering clinic, OR cases, and get exposure to Head and Neck service.

Year 2 (12 months Medical School)

• Medical School YR-2. Full medical school curriculum and take Step 1 with medical school knowledge. You have dedicated time to study.

Year 3 (11 months Medical School - final year, 1 month of OMFS)

• Clinical rotations as a medical student including Psychiatry, General Surgery, OBGYN, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Neurology.
• Take Step 2 before graduating medical school with MD in May and returning to OMFS service in June.
• As residents, you will start right away as primary residents of the service. You are in the thick of it taking calls, assisting or cutting on cases such as fibular and radial free flaps, orthognathic surgery, I and D, trauma.

Year 4 (5 months OMFS, 2 months H&N, 5 months Anesthesia)
You are continuing to be primary residents of the OMFS service taking primary calls (~q3 or 4), covering clinics, preparing OR cases, etc.

• 5 months of anesthesia (2 months - pediatric anesthesia at Children's Hospital of Michigan, 3 months - general anesthesia)
• 7 months of OMFS/Head and Neck service months

Year 5 (6 months OMFS, 2 months H & N, 4 months General Surgery)

• On your 5th year, you have 4 months of general surgery (1 month General surgery, 1 month Trauma surgery, 2 months SICU), 2 months Head and Neck, and 6 months of OMFS. In full disclosure, you are still somewhat taking primary calls (~q5) when you are on service to meet requirements and to take care of the caseload for our department. You are much more involved in OR cases where a lot of times, PGY-5s are 1:1 with an attending.

Year 6 (10 months OMFS, 2 months H & N)

• The sixth-year residents are senior residents and assume primary responsibility for the service. The residents will rotate between OR coverage and Clinic coverage.
• At the clinic you are responsible for running the entire service, doing the more complex cases in the clinic. On OR rotation, you will be organizing cases for the OR, and closely working up new surgical cases with the attendings. Simple cases done fully by the senior resident. Resident cuts half and attending cuts other half on bigger cases. Many OR cases go simultaneously in multiple locations, so each senior resident takes a case with 1:1 attending.

Total 30 months of OMFS
Months wise, we know it’s short. But this is very intense 30 months. We think quality over quantity.

Scope
We are a broad-scope program, including malignant/benign pathology, microvascular reconstruction, trauma, dentoalveolar surgery, implants, sedations/anesthesia, orthognathic, pediatric cases, TMJ, infections.

Dentoalveolar: The Riverview clinic runs ~5 sedations/day for 1 senior resident on rotation. Plenty of cases with no trouble meeting requirements and graduating feeling very comfortable. If the senior meets requirements, PGY-5s will run sedations.

Trauma: Unlimited trauma cases. As mentioned before, 24/7/365 on trauma call for full face without competition with Plastics or ENT. All soft tissue and hard tissue facial trauma comes to us throughout 5 hospitals. Hospital EDs know well enough not to call us for just a tooth call.

Pathology/Reconstruction: We are the Head and Neck team of the hospital. Multiple cases of reconstruction Tue/Thur including multiple free-flaps/day. You rotate on Head and Neck throughout the residency. You work directly with the fellow and Dr. Ramirez. All flap checks done by ICU nurses. No need to run around doing flap check.

Infections: Throughout the hospitals we cover, infections of varying size/location/urgency comes through ED. Infection is the majority of cases you will see on call. You will feel very comfortable seeing infection patients.

TMJ: Dr. Bloom and Dr. Angulo, both regularly see TMJ patients. We offer a full spectrum of options ranging from conservative treatments like TMJ Botox to condylectomy, eminectomy, and total TMJ replacement.

Orthognathic: We have steady caseloads coming to us through Dr. Bermudez’s clinic and multiple part-time attendings’ private practices.

Craniofacial: Dr. Bermudez is full-time attending with fellowship training. Building his practice within Henry Ford and working closely with multiple orthodontists in Michigan.

Call
PGY-4s take the most primary call while on service, generally ~q3-4. Unfortunately, PGY-5s also take primary call ~q5 while on service. Days depend on the number of non-categoricals. You will get a post-call at noon sharp the following day.

We cover multiple hospitals throughout Detroit. Main hospitals for call are St John and Warren campus which is ~20 min drive between. 1 outlier is the Novi location which is ~45 min from St John but you rarely get a page from Novi more than once.


Attendings:
Dr. Carlos Ramirez
Dr. William Bloom
Dr. Paul Bermudez
Dr. Jonatthan Angulo
Dr. Arshi Lehal
Dr. Claude LeRose


Lectures/Didactics:
Every Friday 7am - 11am. Protected didactic time with varying topics. Oral Pathology series by Dr. Brent Accurso and Dr. Brent Martin, both Oral & Maxillofacial Pathologists.

Vacation:
You get 4 weeks of vacation per year. 1 week at a time but you can make a maximum continuous 9 days with weekends.

Non-categorical Internship:
We take non-categoricals each year. Non-cats work as PGY-1s with the addition of a rotation at a dentoalveolar clinic with full autonomy. Please refer to our website Internship Opportunities


We are a fun group of people. We are just not allowed to make an Instagram page by the hospital policy. We go fishing on a boat together and get together for drinks and cook outs. Henry Ford now offers resident wellness program with financial support for dinners just for residents. We like to go to upscale dinners.