The Residency Program in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at LSU Health Shreveport combines both a six-year and a four-year track designed to fulfill the educational requirements of the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association, the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and the American Medical Association.
Each year, two applicants are selected to begin a 72-month training schedule, and one applicant is selected to begin a 48-month training schedule.
Biomedical Science instruction is incorporated throughout both tracks. Regularly scheduled conferences consist of Preoperative Surgery Conferences, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Teaching Seminars, Journal Club, Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Oral Pathology Conference, Head and Neck Tumor Board, and Orthognathic/Dentofacial Deformities Conference.
What is required for the program?
- Each resident accepted to the six-year track must have taken the Comprehensive Basic Sciences Exam (CBSE) and achieved a score of 72 or higher.
- Advanced standing in the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine requires successful completion of Step I of the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) before matriculation.
- Residents within this track will now enroll in the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine during their first year as acting Third Year Medical Students.
- The resident then completes the fourth year of the medical school curriculum during which 9 months of electives will be spent on OMFS and 3 months will be spent learning physical exam techniques, nutrition, and an acting internship in the MICU.
Upon graduation from medical school, the residents will spend one year as a general surgery intern, which is divided into
- 6 months of General Surgery rotations (divided between Burn Unit, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, General Surgery, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Surgical Oncology, and Trauma),
- 5 months of Anesthesia rotations, and
- 1 month back on OMFS.
At the completion of this year of General Surgery, the residents return to the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery service for 36 months to complete their training as senior and chief residents. The USMLE Steps II and III are completed during their last year of medical school and their first year of post-graduate medical training, respectively.
TRAINING LOCATIONS
Throughout the course of the residency program, the residents will spend time at our various hospital affiliates including the Academic Medical Center at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (including the LSU Children’s Hospital), the Ambulatory Care Center, the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, the Christus-Schumpert Hospital System, Rapides Regional Medical Center, Monroe Medical Center at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport, and the Overton Brooks Veterans Administration Hospital.
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PROGRAM GOAL
The goal of the Advanced Education Program in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at LSU Health Shreveport is ultimately board certification of its graduates. Each resident, once matriculated from the program, is monitored for their performance on the certification examinations of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and the program director contacts each individual to discuss the programs adequacy in preparation for this exam.
Program Director
Celso Palmieri Jr., DDS, FACS
Clinical Professor and Residency Program Director of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Why work and train in Shreveport, Louisiana?
Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana and is a wonderful place to live with beautiful parks and lakes, a low cost of living, almost non-existent traffic issues, a vibrant arts scene and home to dozens of locally owned restaurants in addition to national chains. Located at the crossroads of Texas and Arkansas, living in Shreveport provides easy access to cities such as Dallas/Ft. Worth, Hot Springs and numerous Louisiana cities.
Shreveport, and our sister city Bossier, have so much to offer that you have to experience it.
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