Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Curriculum

The Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency’s off-service rotations are designed to provide you with the most comprehensive Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery training possible. The rotations were developed within guidelines of the AAOMS, offering you some flexibility to customize your rotations based on your career goals.

You’ll work individually with one of our anesthesiologists and CRNAs in the main operating room during your anesthesia off-service rotation to learn airway management, support of the anesthetized patient, regional anesthesia, management of medically compromised patients, as well as respiratory care and care of ICU patients. Challenging cases are discussed at monthly conferences

As a first-year resident, you’ll learn to treat outpatients, participate in ward rounds, operating room procedures and attend clinical conferences. During this period, you’ll assist at operations, receive instruction and guidance in admissions and discharge of patients, perform minor surgery, and be introduced to the management of facial trauma and the role of the oral & maxillofacial surgeon in the hospital. 

Toward the end of your first year, you’ll be assigned to the chief resident in medicine, participating in the Department of Medicine's rounds and conferences. General medicine has four inpatient services, each with an attending physician who changes every 3 weeks. Each service averages 15 patients with two admissions per day and 4 to 9 patients on night call. As an oral surgery resident, there’s an emphasis on cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine.