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Schedules

All residents have assignments at the two hospitals during their four years of Otolaryngology training. During each rotation the residents have the opportunity to participate in the medical and surgical care of all surgery for all staff and private cases. The attending surgeons are always available for operating room and clinic coverage on a daily basis and the same applies for consultative and emergency services throughout the day and night. Direct supervision is always provided in this program. During each year, the following rotation structure is created with residents at various levels of training.

Rotations

1st Year
Surgical rotations in neurosurgery, plastic surgery, vascular and general surgery, anesthesia, ICU, otolaryngology and trauma—under the direction of the Department of Otolaryngology.

2nd Year
Rotations in audiology and vestibular training, plus 10 months of otolaryngology at the Clinton Woods facility for outpatient training and at Strong Memorial Hospital. Residents will develop proposed research projects with the Research Division.

3rd Year
Clinical rotations at Strong Memorial Hospital with outpatient responsibilities at the Clinton Woods facility, plus four months in the research lab.

4th Year
Eight months clinical otolaryngology at Strong Memorial Hospital with clinical responsibilities at the Clinton Woods facility, plus three months at Highland Hospital.

5th Year
Chief Resident year—nine months at Strong Memorial Hospital and three months at Highland Hospital. Six months of this year is spent as the administrative chief resident.

While on clinical rotation, the residents have the opportunity to see cases generated from approximately 40,000 outpatient private visits and 2,800 outpatient clinic visits per year. Surgery volume resulting from this approaches 4,200 surgical cases which the residents participate in throughout the year. A full spectrum of clinical cases is available for teaching, and residents finishing the program perform approximately 1,800 cases as operating surgeons. An important feature of this residency is that it offers an extensive general training in otolaryngology with exposure to fellowship trained faculty in all subspecialties available in otolaryngology. This has resulted in a high level of clinical case material and resulting training.