ELECT EPCRS - Clerkship in Oral and Maxillofacial Craniofacial Surgery

• The goal of this block is for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Tracked medical students to learn the management of common diseases and facial deformities of pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery patients.

OBJECTIVES

• During this course each student will:
  • Maintain a patient log documenting the craniofacial deformity patients and pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial diseases that they were involved in. Below are the required number and type of patients that the student needs to participate in during the rotation
    • 5 patients with cleft lip
    • 5 patients with cleft palate
    • 5 patients with positional plagiocephaly
    • 2 patients with craniosynostosis
• Attend and participate in the operating room at least once a week in the surgical treatment of pediatric patients with craniofacial deformities
• Demonstrate their knowledge to upper level residents and attendings of the current approaches to antenatal investigation for craniofacial disorders when seeing these patients with the fellows and attendings in clinic
• Demonstrate their knowledge of the relationship between form, function, and growth in pediatric craniofacial deformities and the staged reconstructive surgeries needed to minimize growth disturbances when seeing these patients with the fellows and attendings in clinic
• Give a 30 minute presentation at the end of the rotation on the OMFS Thursday morning conference on a craniofacial syndrome with its associated deformities and the treatment

SPECIFIC DUTIES OF SENIOR STUDENTS

• Active Evaluation or patients in the in-patient and out-patient setting, under supervision of residents and faculty
• Participating in Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery cases in the operating room and assisting when appropriate
• Attendance at Plagiocephaly, Craniofacial and Cleft Clinics

READING ASSIGNMENTS

• Kaban L, Troulis MJ.Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.2^nd Ed.Saunders 2004

HOURS PER WEEK

CONF       3  HRS          WARD       5     HRS        LAB                    HRS      LIBRARY       HRS

OR          16        HRS         CLINIC      16      HRS        LECTURE                  HRS          READING    HRS

TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK:   40      

ALL

Pass/Fail