Residency Program

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LSU Six-Year
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
MD Program

Basic Sciences

Anatomy, including Growth and Development

Postgraduate head and neck anatomy surgical course has 24 hours of lectures and 40 hours of laboratory format. Each class period has a lecture, clinical correlation, and laboratory segment. The laboratory segment consists of cadaver dissection covering the specific days’ topic. The entire head and neck is reviewed with emphasis on applied surgical anatomy plus selected areas of the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis are dissected as they relate to the surgical treatment of the OMS patents.


Physiology:

This topic is incorporated in the medical school curriculum and applied specifically in the clinical pathology and clinical medicine course. Additional clinical instruction occurs daily on ward rounds as well as in outpatient and inpatient care on all services.

Pharmacology

This topic is incorporated in the medical school curriculum and applied specifically in the clinical pathology and clinical medicine course. Additional clinical instruction occurs daily on ward rounds as well as in outpatient and inpatient care on all services.

Applied pharmacology lectures are given in anesthesia, medicine and during selected oral and maxillofacial surgery seminars and lectures. Additional information on drug therapeutics and interactions are stressed daily on ward rounds for pre and postoperative care, in the outpatient clinic, and during inpatient surgery.

Microbiology

This topic is incorporated in the medical school curriculum and applied specifically in the clinical pathology and clinical medicine course. Additional clinical instruction occurs daily on ward rounds as well as in outpatient and inpatient care on all services. Additional discussions also are included on rotation on infectious diseases in the hospital.

Pathology

General pathology is incorporated in the medical school curriculum.

The advanced oral pathology courses include lecture format where selected topics are presented by members of the Department of Oral Pathology including a broad range of pathologic conditions. In addition, Dr. Brannon delivers a clinical pathology CPC every 6 weeks in our weekly conference schedule.

Additional instruction occurs on ward rounds and during inpatient and
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