Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

The Advanced Educational Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago is a 48 month (4 year), postdoctoral program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association. The last site accreditation visit occurred in October 2007.

Department Head and Program Director: Michael Miloro, D.M.D., M.D., F.A.C.S., Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Dentistry, 801 S. Paulina Street, M/C 835, Chicago, IL 60612-7211. (312) 996-1052 ph., (312)-996-5987 fax.

Number of residents each year: Two (2) appointments for residency positions.

Number of one-year interns each year: Two (2)

Total number of residents/interns in program each year: Ten (10)

The objectives of the program are to:

The UIC Medical Center, Jessie Brown Veterans Administration Medical Center, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County are the various sites employed for surgical clinical experience. Thirty-four (34) months are devoted to clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery. There is a comprehensive didactic curriculum consisting of weekly seminars, clinical pathologic conferences, morbidity reviews, case reviews, oral pathology seminars, surgical-orthodontic conferences, journal club, and head and neck tumor board.

The distribution of operating room and major outpatient procedures for the 2007-08 year is:

During his or her residency, each resident is expected to prepare and submit at least one paper to a peer-reviewed journal for publication. This paper may be the result of laboratory or clinical research, and each resident is encouraged to formulate and implement an original project beginning in their first year of training. However, significant involvement in established faculty research may satisfy this requirement. At the minimum, an abstract must be submitted to the AAOMS for presentation by each resident during their senior year. In addition, local and regional meeting presentations are encouraged.

The first year resident spends the major portion of their time on the oral and maxillofacial surgery service between the UICMC and Jessie Brown VA Hospital. The resident works closely with the senior residents, providing both inpatient and outpatient care. The resident has primary responsibility for examining, diagnosing and treating patients in the outpatient clinic. The resident also assumes responsibility for inpatients under the supervision of the chief resident, assists the chief resident and staff with operating room cases and also serves as primary surgeon many operative cases.

The second year resident functions as an intern in General Surgery for four months and Internal Medicine for 2 months at UICMC. The other six months are spent on the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery service.

The third year resident spends their time fulfilling the requirements in anesthesia and trauma rotations in addition to functioning as on the UIC OMS service and acting as the senior OMS Resident of the service at the Jessie Brown VA Hospital.

The fourth year resident spends their time functioning as a Chief OMS resident assuming the responsibility for the overall function of the oral and maxillofacial service. The resident is expected to be the primary operating surgeon on all major cases. The majority of their time is spent at the UIC Medical Center Hospital.

Outcomes assessment/board certification: Residents take the yearly OMSSAT examination of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. UIC program is designed to meet the educational requirements of the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association and to prepare the resident to obtain board certification by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

UIC residents completing the program and taking the ABOMS exam have passed, at a rate comparable to the national average. Success on the ABOMS examination is a function of training, experience and, most importantly, individual preparation. However, this is only one measure of the quality of an oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program.

During the four years the residents are paid a residents salary and are provided with University paid health care benefits. In addition to standard house officer benefits, the department of OMS provides support for travel and presentation of scientific papers at various meetings in the United States.