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OMS Internship Program

Boston University School of Dental Medicine/Boston Medical Center
Internship Director:  Dr. Hussam Batal
Contact person: Cheryl Flynn, Residency Coordinator, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Email: Cheryl.Flynn@bmc.org
Tel:     (617) 414-7558

Overview

........oral and maxillofacial pre-residency internship program
The one-year pre-residency focuses on training new dental graduates in minor oral and maxillofacial surgery, including dentoalveolar surgery, preprosthetic surgery, dentoalveolar trauma, management of odontogenic infections, exposure to dental implants, and management of the medically compromised patient. Residents enrolled in the program will rotate through different institutions including BUSDM, Boston Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs hospital.

goals
The goal of the oral and maxillofacial surgery pre-residency program is to provide residents with excellent didactic and clinical experience. On completion, graduates will possess sufficient professional knowledge, skills, and ability to practice minor oral surgery competently and independently.

annual openings
oral and maxillofacial surgery preresidency Internship: maximum of three openings

oral and maxillofacial surgery pre-residency internship application information
The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery pre-residency internship program uses the Postdoctoral Application Support Service (PASS) for admissions. Applications may be obtained by contacting PASS directly at 202/289-8123 or 800/353-2237, or, PASS 1400 K Street, NW, Suite 1100B, Washington DC 20005-2403, or by visiting their website, http://www.adea.org/PASS/default.htm
There is no deadline for forwarding the application for the internship program. Interviews are conducted after the match results are out for the oral and maxillofacial surgery program. The Internship program does not participate in the match program

tuition
Boston University School of Dental Medicine charges tuition to all residents entering the residency program. The tuition is equal to one quarter of the regular postgraduate year tuition of the year of entry on a yearly basis. The tuition covers the cost of didactic courses that are given by the school.

housing
Housing for the incoming residents is available in Boston and its Boston. The BMC House Officers Association prepares information about the neighborhood and transportation most accessible to the core hospitals, and maintains a list of apartments and houses that will be vacated by current house officers in June. This list is available to new residents in late April. In addition, BUMC's Office of Off-Campus Services provides valuable information on housing and transportation.

stipend
Annual stipends have increased regularly to offset the rise in the cost of living and are competitive with stipends at other teaching hospitals in the Boston area. Salaries increase along a standard scale for each year of training.

benefits
The following benefits are negotiated and contracted every three years by the House Officer Association. These benefits are applicable for the period October 2006 through October 2009.

........extra on-call

In the event a house officer is required to work extra on-call due to absence of another house officer [e.g., due to illness, disability, approved leaves of absence, temporary reassignment by the department, emergency absences, vacation (if the coverage required is every other night call), removal from the payroll, jury duty, departmental scheduling error (defined as a house officer scheduled to be on-call back-to-back on different rotations), bereavement leave and/or resignation (including situations in which a person accepts appointment to a program and fails to arrive)], or if a house officer volunteers to work extra on-call hours and the offer is accepted, then, commencing with the first night on-call, the house officer will receive additional compensation in the amount of  $200/call Monday-Friday, and $250/call on Saturday, Sunday and holidays.

........medical insurance

Medical insurance premiums will be paid for by the hospital based on the following percentages of the average weekly premium of all medical insurance plans (excluding Master Health Plus and the EPO):

• individual: 85%
• individual + 1: 85%
• family: 85%

The hospital will extend domestic partnership coverage (same sex only) to all house officers who select the Hospital’s EPO plan.

........life insurance

The hospital provides all eligible house officers with life insurance and/or accidental death and dismemberment insurance at no cost to the house officer equal to one (1) times their base annual salary. House officers may also purchase additional life insurance at one (1), two (2) or three (3) times their annual salary at the rate of twenty-one cents ($.21) per one thousand dollars ($1,000) of life insurance per month and/or additional AD&D insurance at one (1), two (2) or three (3) times their annual salary at a rate of four cents ($.04) per one thousand dollars ($1,000) per month.

........house officer association/CIR membership dues (or agency fee)

House officers and fellows are represented by the House Officers’ Association/CIR for the purpose of negotiating their salaries, hours, and work conditions with the hospital, and enforcing the negotiated contract. Members of the HOA/CIR pay dues of 1.5% of their gross salary, deducted weekly. House officers and fellows who choose not to be members are required by the hospital’s contract with the union to contribute 1.5% of their gross salary as an “agency fee” (also deducted weekly) which contributes to the cost of negotiating and enforcing the contract. These dues/fees are tax deductible. 

........tax sheltered annuity

House officers may voluntarily open a tax sheltered annuity at up to 20% of salary or $11,000 ($12,000 effective 1/1/03), whichever is smaller.

........flexible spending account

The hospital makes available to eligible house officers, at no cost to the hospital, a Flexible Spending Account not to exceed $5,000 per house officer for child and dependant care and not to exceed $2,000 per house officer for out-of-pocket medical expenses.

........disability insurance

The hospital provides each house officer with short and long-term disability coverage, which is portable and is provided by the Voluntary Hospitals House Staff Benefits Plan of the Committee of Interns and Residents.

........HIV insurance

The hospital provides all eligible house officers with one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) HIV medical insurance coverage at no cost to the house officer. In addition, any house officer can purchase up to an additional two hundred fifty dollars ($250,000) at a cost of seventy-five cents ($.75) per week for each fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of coverage.

........dental insurance

The house officer's weekly dental insurance plan premium contribution will be as follows, if coverage is elected:

........malpractice insurance

The hospital provides malpractice insurance at its expense in the amount of $1,000,000/$3,000,000.

........vacation

The hospital provides four (4) weeks vacation leave with pay except in the Departments of Surgery, Urology, Thoracic Surgery, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Dermatology, and Anesthesia where the respective Chief of Service, with the approval of the Office of Medical Affairs, may require that the fourth week of vacation leave be in the form of one (1) week of additional compensation in lieu of time off.

........sick leave

Sick leave accrues at the rate of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) days for each month of actual service, not to exceed fifteen (15) working days in any calendar year. New employees are credited in advance with seven and one-half (7 1/2) sick leave days as of July of their first year, in advance of such year having been worked. Sick leave not used in the year in which it accrues, together with any accumulated sick leave standing to the employee's credit and not used in the current year, may be accumulated for use in the subsequent year. Sick leave not used prior to the termination of an employee's service shall lapse, and the employee shall not be entitled to any compensation in lieu thereof.

........maternity leave

House officers are entitled to up to twelve (12) weeks of unpaid family leave for the birth or care of a child, for adoption of a child under age eighteen or foster care placement of a child under age eighteen. Unused sick and vacation time can be used for this twelve (12) week leave.

........parental leave

House officers are entitled to two (2) weeks parental leave in order to attend to the birth, adoption, or care of a new child in the employee's immediate household. Unused sick and vacation time may be used for this leave.

........family and medical leave

Consistent with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, eligible persons may be entitled to up to twelve (12) weeks of unpaid medical leave for serious illness or serious illness of said person's spouse, parent or child. All applications for FMLA must comply with the Hospital’s policies and procedures governing such leave.

........bereavement leave

In the event of death of a house officer's mother, father, spouse, significant other, parents of spouse or significant other, brother, sister, child, grandparent, grandchild, or other members of the house officer's immediate household (for a period of six (6) months or more), the house officer is entitled to receive up to three (3) working days leave without loss of pay for the purpose of attending funeral services or arranging for burial, provided that the house officer is in active service at the time of such death. Leave without loss of pay under this section shall not be deducted from sick leave or vacation leave. All house officers are permitted one (1) day's leave without pay in order to attend the funeral of a relative not included above. A house officer may choose to use accumulated sick leave for this purpose. If a house officer requires additional leave for bereavement purposes due to the death of someone specified above, authorized leave for such purposes shall be deducted from sick leave allowance.

........educational allowance

Effective October 2007, each house officer will receive a three hundred dollar ($300.00) professional education allowance.

........lab coats

The hospital will provide each house officer with three (3) white coats in their first year of residency, and two (2) for each successive year of their residency.

........limited licensing fee

The hospital pays for the limited license for all house officers.

........parking

For the fiscal year 10/1/02 to 9/30/03, the Hospital will provide a credit of $40 per month to all house officers participating in the parking program. House officers will be required to pay $50 per month for monthly parking. Reduced rate daily parking is also available for house officers on outside rotation who only return to BMC intermittently. House officers who elect not to participate in the BMC parking program may be eligible for an MBTA pass subsidy of 25% offered by the Office of Parking and Transportation Services (limit of 1 pass per person per month).

........on-call rooms

On-call rooms are available at Boston Medical Center Menino pavilion
On call meals provided at Boston Medical Center - Harrison Pavilion (BMC-HP), Boston Medical Center - Newton Pavilion (BMC-HP), and VAMS include morning and evening meal.

........residency resources

• Resident Office at BMC-Menino Pavilion, Dental School, and Boston VAMS.
• Resident library available 24 hours at BMC-Menino Pavilion.
• IBM Compatible PC’s with Pentium II processor, windows 95, office 95, and full internet access available for 24 hour resident access at BMC-HAC, School of Dental Medicine, and Boston VAMS.

........work hours
The Program is in compliance with the recommendations of the Coordinating Committee on House Staff Clinical Training issues.

hospital and associated facilities

........Boston Medical Center (BMC)
Boston Medical Center is a multispecialty referral institution that is the principal teaching hospital of the Boston University School of Medicine and the Goldman School of Dental Medicine. The hospital has two separate campuses and receives approximately 420,000 patient visits annually. BMC is the regions busiest Level I trauma center and the emergency department capably meets the demands of 84,000 visits per year. Boston Medical Center is a founder of Boston HealthNet, which is a partnership between the medical center, Boston University School of Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, and thirteen community health centers in neighborhoods throughout the Greater Boston area. BMC is committed to excellence in patient care, advanced clinical research, and health-care education. Although the hospital's primary service area includes greater Boston and eastern Massachusetts, it receives referrals from throughout New England and the world. The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic at Boston Medical Center's Menino Pavilion is a five-operatory, state-of-the-art clinic. It is one of the busiest clinics in the hospital, and treats 17,000 patients annually.

........The Boston Veteran's Affairs Medical Center
The Veteran's Affairs HealthCare System, Boston (VA) is a tertiary referral center and one of the largest Veteran's Affairs hospitals in the United States It is the only VAHS in northern New England that provides oral and maxillofacial surgery services. The Boston VAHS receives referrals from all the regional VA facilities. Great emphasis is placed on diagnosis and treatment planning of dental implants , bone grafting, and treatment of medically compromised patients. Inpatient facilities are provided at VA Boston Hospital in West Roxbury, while the outpatient clinics and day surgery are located at the VA Hospital (Boston) in Jamaica Plain.

ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY Pre-Residency Internship Program Curriculum (OS)

SDM OS 761 Medical Concerns of the Dental Patient
A review of internal medicine and the management of the medically compromised dental patient. Dr. Safer and faculty

SDM OS 770, 772, 773 Journal Club
An ongoing review of the classic and current literature in oral and maxillofacial surgery and related disciplines.This conference is held every month and is an interactive discussion forum. Dr. Cotrell and faculty

SDM OS 825, 826, 827 Anesthesia Topics
A lecture and discussion series for residents in years 1, 3, and 4 of the program covering the physiology, anatomy, and practical aspects of the administration of general anesthesia as well as inhalational and intravenous sedation techniques for adult and pediatric patients. Dr. Bookless and faculty

SDM OS 828 Pain and Anxiety Control
A discussion of topics in pain and anxiety control, including pain physiology, local anaesthetic techniques, patient management, and sedative techniques. Dr. Bhatia and faculty

SDM OS 831 Head and Neck Anatomy
An in-depth discussion of head and neck anatomy, emphasizing implications of head and neck anatomy to clinical dentistry and oral and maxillofacial surgery. Dr. Hoagland and faculty

SDM OS 860 Principles of Surgery
The entire spectrum of oral and maxillofacial surgery, emphasizing proper diagnosis and treatment. Management of the medically compromised patient is included with proper respect for the application of basic science knowledge to patient care. Includes lectures by attending and guest faculty from the departments of Plastic Surgery, ENT, Ophthalmology, and OMFS. Dr. Mehra and faculty

SDM OS 861 Head and Neck Surgical Anatomy
Intensive course of seminars and/or dissection of human specimens with demonstrations of surgical and clinical approaches and techniques.
Dr. Batal and faculty

SDM OS 864 Physical Diagnosis
An extensive course in the principles and practice of physical diagnosis and laboratory diagnosis. Consists of short lectures, discussion seminars, and clinical patient evaluation including lectures, discussions, and in-patient rounds. Dr. Worcester

SDM OS 866 Orthodontics-Orthognathic Surgery Conference
Combined conference between orthodontic and OMFS departments designed to familiarize residents with the problems associated with the diagnosis and treatment of dentofacial deformities. Stresses orthodontic principles and surgical techniques, and team evaluation. Drs. Mehra and Dietz

SDM OS 881, 883, 884 Clinical Oral Maxillofacial Surgery
A four-year continuum consisting of clinical rotations on the oral and maxillofacial surgery services of Boston Medical Center and its affiliated training sites including the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery faculty

SDM OS 890, 891 Mock Board Examinations -  Written sections
This course is designed to prepare the resident for the certification examination of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Drs. Mehra and Batal

SDM OS 918 Student Teaching
Graduate students have the opportunity to synthesize their knowledge and experience through involvement with limited, supervised teaching assignments. During these assignments, graduate students act as teaching assistants in the school's predoctoral program. OMFS Faculty

SDM OS Applied Dental Pharmacology and Therapeutics
This course examines the pharmacological issues relevant to oral surgery and oral biology. It focuses on pharmacology associated with symptoms detected in the oral cavity during treatment. These include but are not limited to autoimmune syndrome, HIV, and cardiac, neurological, and metabolic disorders. Medications associated with these conditions and their influence on the oral cavity are discussed. BUSM Faculty

SDM OS Oral Microbiology
Distribution, ecology, and pathogenic potential of oral microbiota. Pathogenicity of components of bacterial plaque and their role in the development of oral diseases. Mechanisms of local and systematic resistance to pathogenic oral microbiota. Dr. Hughes and faculty

SDM OS Craniofacial Growth and Development
This course offers a clinically relevant understanding of craniofacial growth and development for the orthodontist. Topics include how malocclusion develops and how growth can be modified during treatment of malocclusion. Attention is focused on growth and development of the face, the occlusion and the dental arches, and biomechanical strategies used to facilitate optimal growth outcomes. Dr. Dietz

SDM OS 801 Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
A covering a spectrum of diseases involving the oral and paraoral structures. Lectures include fibro-osseous lesions, developmental disturbances affecting the jaws and teeth, odontogenic tumors, cysts of the oral and paraoral region, bacterial, viral and mycotic infections, benign tumors and tumor-like lesions, white lesions, pigmented lesions, vesicullo-bullous diseases, hematologic, endocrine, and metabolic disorders. Dr. Kabani and faculty

SDM OS 883 Oral Pathology Conference/Microscopic Interpretation
Guided, intensive presentation sessions devoted to developing the OMFS resident’s familiarity with Histology, General Pathology, and Oral Pathology. Drs. Gallagher, Kabani, Kemp, and Noonan

SDM OS 991, 992, 993, 994 Research: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
The OMFS program requires at least one research project be completed during the training program. The research is guided by faculty and entails a critical review of the literature, developing a hypothesis, statistical analysis, and interpretation of data. A written research paper and oral presentation are mandatory requirements for graduation. Dr. Mehra

SDM OS BMC Maxillofacial Trauma Conference
Combined conference between the Departments of OMFS and OTO/HNS to discuss recent developments in the management of facial trauma patients.  Includes case presentations and discussions. Dr. Mehra

SDM OS Combined BU-Tufts-Harvard OMFS Grand Rounds
Inter-university conferences held 3 times a year. These lectures and presentations include local and/or guest speakers presenting clinical and research developments in OMFS and its related disciplines.  Dr. Mehra

SDM OS Grand Rounds/Case Review/Morbidity and Mortality Conference
These courses include a review of surgical cases, treatment outcomes and discussions on diagnosis and treatment planning.  Additionally, there is a detailed review on one selected medical or surgical topics.  OMFS Faculty

SDM OS  Clinicopathological Conference
These quarterly conferences include interactive discussions between the faculty and residents on diagnosis and management of Head and Neck Pathology. The faculty utilizes a format similar to the ABOMS oral certifying examination to present cases. OMFS faculty