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Advanced
Education
Program in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
The Advanced
Educational Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans is a six-year
OMS-MD residency program designed to fulfill the educational
requirements of the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental
Association and the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
(See also) OMS Website. Each year three or four applicants
are selected to begin
seventy-two months of training. The Medical Center of Louisiana
(Charity Hospital in New Orleans and University Hospital) in New
Orleans serves as the primary teaching hospital. Other affiliated
institutions are Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital in Baton Rouge,
Carolinas Healthcare System, and the dental and medical schools of
Louisiana State University. 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, Advanced Oral Pathology, TMJ Diseases, and
Orthognathic Surgery. Conferences consist of Clinical Pathology,
Preoperative Surgery, Journal Club, and oral and maxillofacial surgery
teaching seminars.
Enrollment in the LSU
School of Medicine for Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Clinical
Pathology, and Dermatology is concurrent with the initial twelve-month
clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery rotation. Advanced standing for
third year entry into medical school is predicated on passage of the
national Medical Board Step I in June of the applicant's first year of
training. Following 24 months of medical school, with four months of
anesthesia included in the resident's 3rd year of training, one year of
General Surgery credit is gained with rotation in the Emergency Room,
General Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties, Neurosurgery, up to three
months of oral and maxillofacial surgery, and as necessary, Anesthesia.
The residents return to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department
for twenty-four months to complete the program.
Patient load during the
thirty-six months of oral and maxillofacial surgery training includes
extensive maxillofacial hard and soft-tissue trauma and reconstruction,
orthognathic, and craniofacial surgery, temporomandibular joint
disorders, all forms of cosmetic surgery, pathology, preprosthetic and
implant surgery, advanced exodontia, and ambulatory outpatient general
anesthesia. The combined annual inpatient surgery at all teaching
hospitals exceeds 1,500 cases. Over 25,000 outpatients are seen each
year, which account for 6,000 procedures. The program is closely
supervised by five full-time and fifteen part time board certified oral
and maxillofacial surgeons.
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 they have attended a US
equivalency program and received a US DDS equivalency degree.
Foreign applicants must already have permanent USA residency status
prior to application.
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. A $30.00 processing fee payable
to the 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 director of the Department of Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program. Applicants must agree to
participate in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residents Matching
Program, the description of which is excerpted from the AAOMS below.
The use of the matching
program for first-year residents in oral and maxillofacial surgery
residency programs has been used 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 participating programs.
The matching program
provides an orderly method to enable applicants to obtain positions in
the first-year residency program of their choice and also helps
programs obtain applicants of their choice. This program eliminates an
inequitable recruitment process that forces premature decisions and
puts unnecessary pressure on both applicants as well as programs and is
very similar to the National Matching Program for 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 of
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 is kept confidential.
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 Lists" submitted by each program and applicant
are the sole determinants of their respective order or preference of
the match.
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.
LSU Six-Year Oral & Maxillofacial
Surgery/MD Program - New Orleans
| 1st Year |
OMS-12 months integrated with:
Graduate Head and Neck Anatomy
Graduate Oral Pathology Course
Introduction to Clinical Medicine
Dermatology
Clinical Pathology
Pass Step I of Medical National Boards |
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| 2nd Year |
Clerkships of 3rd academic year - LSUHSC School of Medicine |
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| 3rd Year |
Clerkships of 4th academic year - LSUHSC School of Medicine
Anesthesiology, 1-4 months
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 1-3 months
M.D. Awarded |
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| 4th Year |
General Surgery I
General Surgery and subspecialties, 5 months
Neurosurgery, 3-4 months
Anesthesiology, 1-2 months
OMS, 1-4 months |
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| 5th Year |
OMS,12 months
Graduate Orthognathic Surgery Course |
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| 6th Year |
OMS, 12 months
Elective Cosmetic or Cleft Palate rotation (optional)
Certificate Awarded |
Key Information
| Program
Director |
Dr.
Jon Perenack |
| Length
of Program |
6 years |
| Matching
Participant |
Yes |
| PASS
Participant |
Yes |
| Certificate
Awarded |
Yes |
| Degree
Awarded |
Yes -
MD |
| Fees |
Yes |
| International
Students Accepted |
Canada
only |
| PASS
Application Deadline |
September 1
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| Program
Start Date |
July 1 |
| Program
End Date |
June 30 |
| Application Materials Required |
PASS
applications only (https://portal.passweb.org/) |
| Additional Application Materials to be Sent to LSUSD |
LSU processing
fee, 2"x2" photograph, pre-dental transcripts, TOEFL, and CV should be sent directly to
LSUSD Advanced Education. Copies sent to
LSUSD
can be used for interviews, but if
accepted into the program, the program
will require you to provide the official
documents. |
| LSU
Processing Fee |
$30 |

LSUSD Oral &
Maxillofacial Surgery
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Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons
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