St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (Internship)

Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Internship

A one-year, optional two-year, non-categorical internship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is available to DMD/DDS graduates. Up to three funded positions are available each year. The interns’ responsibilities are preoperative evaluation, inpatient and outpatient care, admissions, and full participation in departmental academic activities, preparing them for further advancement in oral and maxillofacial surgery training. Graduating interns have continued their training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at major academic centers nationwide.

Major Job Duties

• Surgical consults, diagnosis, treatment planning, individually performing an array of surgical procedures with direct supervision of OMFS faculty members
• Surgical workup, treatment alternative critical discussion with faculty and patients, first assistant with the faculty members of OMFS
• Interact with dental students in performing outpatient procedures on a daily basis
• Interact with residents of other specialties (dental and medical) for collaborative treatment.
• Interact and assist general dental faculty members' patients during urgent or emergent surgical needs
• Attend medical emergency situations on the clinic floor as needed
• Assist and attend all sedation-based OMFS cases
• Participate in the weekly OMFS-evidence-based dentistry presentation by pre-doctoral students
• Present elaborate and complex OMFS topics and Journal club at the OMFS club
• Participate at the St. Christopher's Hospital for Children- grand rounds when needed
• Participate in advanced skill lab (suturing, manikin-based skill assessment)
• Attend OMFS faculty lecture/ presentation series to Interns & Residents (as schedule permits)
• Rotate with external surgical and specialty clinics with Dept of Dental Medicine, General Surgery, and Anesthesiology in affiliated Hospitals and Universities
• Rotate with the internal specialty care unit of oral implantology
• Prepare and present a poster or oral presentation in a State or National level professional meeting
• Associate with existing research projects in OMFS
• Potential for intermittent on-call and other outreach activities after-hours
• Other duties as assigned