LSUHSC - Departmental Information

<body> The Advanced Educational Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Louisiana State University Medical Center is a six year residency program designed to fulfill the educational requirements of the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association, the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the American Medical Association. <div align="center"> <p> [<a href="../dept_intro.html" target="_self"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">introduction</font></a><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">] . [<a href="../dept_goals.html" target="_self">goals & objectives]</a> . [<a href="../dept_prof.html" target="_self">proficiency/compliance]</a> . [<a href="../dept_appl.html" target="_self">application process]</a> . [<a href="../dept_meet.html" target="_self">meet the faculty]</a> . [<a href="../dept_publ.html" target="_self">recent faculty publications]</a> . 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The Medical Center of Louisiana (Charity Hospital at New Orleans and University Hospital) in New Orleans serves as the primary teaching hospitals. Other affiliated institutions are Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital in Baton Rouge, Carolinas Healthcare System in Charlotte, Doctors Hospital in Metairie, and the Louisiana State University Schools of Dentistry and Medicine.<br> </p> <p>Biomedical science instruction is incorporated throughout the six-year residency program. Formal didactic courses outside of the medical school curriculum include Applied Head and Neck Surgical Anatomy, Histopathology, Advanced Oral Pathology, Anesthesia, and Orthognathic Surgery. Conferences consist of Clinical Pathology, Preoperative Surgery, Journal Club, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Teaching Seminars. A Master's or Doctorate degree (optional) is available by enrolling in the LSU Graduate School and completing a major investigative project and thesis with one of the basic science departments.<br> </p> <p></p> Enrollment in the LSU School of Medicine for Dermatology, Clinical Medicine, and Pathology is concurrent with the initial twelve-month clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery rotation. Advanced standing at the third year medical school level is predicated on passage of the national Medical Board Part I in June of the applicant's first year of training. Following 24 months of medical school, one year of General Surgery credit is gained with rotations in the Emergency Room, General Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties, Neurosurgery, Anesthesia, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The residents return to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department for 24 months to complete the program. The specifics of the M.D. certificate program have been designed so as not to compromise the excellent clinical training which has been a hallmark of this program for many years.<br> <br> Patient load during the thirty-six months of oral and maxillofacial surgery training includes extensive maxillofacial hard and soft tissue trauma and reconstruction, orthognathic, craniofacial and cleft surgery, temporomandibular joint disorders, all forms of head and neck cosmetic and oncological surgery, pre-prosthetic surgery, dental implants, advanced exodontia, and ambulatory outpatient general anesthesia. The combined annual inpatient surgery at all teaching hospitals exceeds 1500 cases. Over 25,000 outpatients are seen each year, which accounts for 6000 procedures.<br> <br> The program is closely supervised by five full-time and twenty part-time Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Monthly (yearly) salaries for first, second, third, and fourth year trainees are approximately $2,779.25 ($33,351.00), $2,861.00 ($34,332.00), $2,965.41 ($35,585.00), $3,085.33 ($37,024.00) respectively.<br> <br> Applicants must be graduates or seniors in the upper 25% of their class of dental schools recognized by the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association. Applications from graduates of dental schools outside the U.S. and Canada will be considered if space permits. Participation in the Postdoctoral Application Support Service (PASS) program is required. Additional experience beyond dental school (general practice residency, anesthesia residency, private practice, graduate school, etc.) may strengthen the applicant's credentials and can be forwarded directly to us. A $30.00 processing fee payable to LSU School of Dentistry is required of those applying. After all applications have been received and reviewed, invitations for interviews will be sent out by the Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.<br> <br> Applications are received before October 15th of the preceding year, and applicants must agree to participate in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residents Matching Program which is described below.<br> <br> <hr width="75%"> <br> The use of the matching program for first year residents in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Programs has been utilized for residency positions since 1986. This program is sponsored by the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and administered through the National Matching Service. The matching program is financed by fees paid by the AAOMS, applicants, and programs participating.<br> <br> The matching program provides an orderly method to enable applicants to obtain positions in the first year residency program of their choice and also help programs obtain applicants of their choice. This will eliminate an inequitable recruitment process that forces premature decisions, which put unnecessary pressure on both applicants as well as programs. This is very similar to the National Matching Program, which involves medical students applying to medical residency programs throughout the United States. Applicants and programs continue to contact each other directly and interview and evaluate each other independently of the Matching Program. However, no offers are made during this period. After all the interviews are completed, both applicants and residency programs submit a confidential "Rank Order List" in which they list the applicants or programs in order of their preference. Both applicants and programs may safely list preferred choices first without consideration for how they will be ranked by the other party. All information submitted to the Matching Program would be kept confidential.<br> <br> Following the match, information on program positions that remain unmatched is provided to applicants that did not match. These unmatched applicants are free to contact unfilled programs and to negotiate directly with these programs, independently of the match to fill the available positions.<br> <br> Participating programs must offer all first year positions through the Matching Program. Programs may not make or require any commitments or contracts with anyone prior to the release of the Match results. Similarly, applicants may apply only to programs that are participating in the Matching Program or until the results of the Match are released. The confidential "Rank Order List" submitted by each program and applicant are the sole determinants of their respective order of preference for the match.<br> <br> The Match results constitute a binding commitment from which neither the applicant nor the program can withdraw without mutual written agreement. The program must offer appointments to each applicant with whom it is matched and the applicant must accept the offer from the program unless both parties agree to release each other from the Match result. The program may not accept any applicant who was matched elsewhere and subsequently not released from that match.<br> <p></p> <p></p> </body>