Introduction to Graduate Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery First-year residents learn treatment of outpatients, ward rounds, and operating room procedures, and attend clinical conferences. During this period, residents assist at operations, receive instruction and guidance in admissions and discharge of patients, perform minor surgery, and are introduced to the management of facial trauma and the role of the oral and maxillofacial surgeon in the hospital.

Neurosurgery Residents work with three neurosurgeons on diagnostic evaluation of neurosurgical patients, including interpreting angiography, CT and MRIs and assisting at major neurosurgical operations. Residents have maximum exposure to neurosurgical trauma patients and management of serious disorders of the brain and spinal cord.


Physical Diagnosis and Clinical Medicine Residents are assigned to the chief resident in medicine, participating in the Department of Medicines rounds and conferences. General medicine has four inpatient services, each with an attending physician who changes every three weeks. Each service averages 15 patients with two admissions per day and four to nine on night call. The emphasis for oral surgery residents is on cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Experience is gained in diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients in both facial and general plastic surgery, including aesthetic surgery, head and neck reconstructive surgery, and microvascular free flaps. The department is staffed by a facial plastic surgeon and a general plastic surgeon.

Pulmonary Medicine Experience is gained in intubation, ventilator management, pulmonary artery line and arterial line placement, and interpretation of pulmonary function tests. The primary care/consultation service averages 25 patients per day, including three patients on a respirator and two others in critical care who are not. The service averages two inpatient admissions and two consultations daily. A pulmonary teaching conference is held monthly and a pulmonary work conference weekly.

More details:
- Residency Curriculum & Schedule
- Surgery Resident

This information is reposted with thanks to Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center.

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