St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center

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Program Description and Philosophy

The oral and maxillofacial surgery residency is a four-year program (with an MD option) based at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey (SJUMC).  Three affiliated institutions play a role in resident education: the Veterans Administration New Jersey Health Care System (VANJHCS), Monmouth Medical Center (MMC) and Mountainside Hospital (MH).  The program is accredited by the American Dental Association and the next site visit is scheduled for 2027. 

Curriculum

A comprehensive didactic program has been developed to exceed published standards and to provide a basis for successful performance on board examinations.  This includes weekly didactic seminars, monthly grand rounds, journal club sessions, maxillofacial pathology lecture series, morbidity and mortality reviews, case presentations and interdisciplinary conferences such as cleft palate/craniofacial team meetings, tumor board, surgical/orthodontic conferences and implant treatment planning sessions.  In addition, each resident completes a head and neck anatomy cadaver dissection course and achieves and maintains certification in BLS, adult and pediatric advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) and advanced trauma life support (ATLS).   

Residents are encouraged to develop sound clinical judgment based upon valid scientific principles.  The rationale for medical and surgical decisions is routinely discussed in conferences and on teaching rounds held by faculty at all three hospitals.  Off-service rotations include five months in the Department of Anesthesiology including assignment to cases involving pediatric and medically fragile patients.  This training is supplemented by resident management of a large volume of adult and pediatric conscious sedation and ambulatory general anesthesia cases under attending supervision.

Residents are oriented to physical diagnosis upon enrollment in the program.  After an introductory course within the department, first year residents rotate at SJUMC’s family practice facility to acquire basic skills in history taking and physical examination.  Later, residents are assigned to the Department of Medicine for two months and function as part of a team following patients admitted to the hospital for medical care. The final two weeks of the rotation are spent in MICU. The four month general surgery rotation includes one month in the SICU.  Additional rotations include one month in Otolaryngology/H&N Surgery and one month of cosmetic facial surgery. 

MD Option – New York Medical College (NYMC)

Residents in good standing, who are interested in acquiring an MD degree, may sit for USMLE Step 1 with a conditional acceptance to NYMC.  If all admissions criteria for the medical school are satisfied including satisfactory performance on Step 1, interested residents may be considered for acceptance to NYMC with advanced standing at the conclusion of OMS training.

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