The Brooklyn Hospital Center

Excellence in patient care and commitment to the education of physicians and other healthcare professionals are among the proud traditions of the Brooklyn Hospital Center. In 1845 it opened its doors as the first voluntary hospital in what was then the city of Brooklyn. Today, The Brooklyn Hospital Center is a 653-bed teaching institution that is a major healthcare resource as well as a dynamic presence in what is New York City's largest borough. The Brooklyn Hospital Center is an academic and clinical affiliate of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Neighbor to Metrotech business complex and the Barclay's Center in downtown Brooklyn, and located just across the bridge from lower Manhattan is the hospital’s downtown campus on DeKalb Avenue...staffed by 3,000 Employees and a medical staff of 524 voluntary, 140 full-time and 115 part-time physicians, the hospital annually cares for more than 200,00 people, with approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions; more than 5,800 babies delivered; 95,000 outpatient visits; and 76,000 emergency room visits each year.The Brooklyn Hospital Center is a 911 receiving hospital and a certified emergency cardiac-care facility. With full accredited, independent residency programs in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Pathology, Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Podiatry, General Dentistry and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, the hospital trains more than 250 physicians each year. The Brooklyn Hospital Center has a fully accredited Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program that now accepts three residents per year. The hospital also has fully accredited 1 and 2-year General Practice Dental Residency Programs. As of July 1, 2017, The Brooklyn Hospital Center's four year Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program has developed and fully integrated affiliated hospital rotations into the OMFS training program. The Brooklyn VA Medical Center is a second year rotation with each Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Resident spending six months under the supervision of Dr. Michael Chan, Chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Brooklyn VA Medical Center. Our senior residents also rotate to Ann Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland under the leadership of Dr. Edward Zebovitz for exposure and training in cleft patients, total TM joint replacement surgery and orthognathics. Our OMS residents also spend eight months (over four years of training) of full time service on rotation to the St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. They are under the direction of Dr. Christopher Lane who is chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. They are exposed to significant number of outpatient sedations, trauma and orthognathic surgery. These external programmatic hospital affiliations help assure that our residents receive significant clinical exposure in all aspects of advanced oral & maxillofacial surgery procedures under direct supervision of Board Certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons

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