Specific goals and objectives:

1. To ensure residents receive training in the basic sciences, didactics, and associated clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery. To educate the student in the basic and clinical sciences that involve treatment of the patient, including advanced coursework in dental implants, out-patient sedation, general anesthesia, anatomy, pathology, orthognathic surgery, physical diagnosis, clinical pathophysiology, trauma reconstruction and cosmetic surgery, dentoalveolar surgery, TMJ surgery, and other forms of maxillofacial reconstruction including direct exposure to head and neck oncology and microvascular surgery.

2. To develop adequate, appropriate necessary diagnostic skills. The objectives of the educational program which includes clinical rotations in a variety of subsurgical specialties, include competence in surgical treatment in all of the areas evaluated by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

3. To develop the clinical skills needed to perform the full scope of ambulatory and inpatient oral and maxillofacial surgery.

4. To provide patient care for the citizens of Louisiana concerning the area of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Patient care is delivered to patients within the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital, University Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery practice and University Hospital at Charlotte, NC, to patients within the LSU School of Dentistry, and the private practices of LSU-OMS faculty members throughout New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

5. To perform research to advance the specialty and understanding of the basic and clinical science for improving patient care. An objective of this OMS program is to provide each student with a research experience that will allow them a better understanding of future developments within the specialty.

The ultimate goal of the Advanced Education Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is Board certification of its graduates. Graduates of the program are monitored for their performance on this certifying examination and the program director contacts each individual who takes the ABOMS written and oral examinations to discuss the adequacy of the program goals and objectives in relation to their individual performance.