Oral Surgery Clinic I

Catalog description

This comprehensive course includes two areas of evaluation. 1) Oral Surgery Assist Rotation (OSA): Students will be assigned on half-day shifts to the oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic. The responsibilities of students during this time are: a) To assist other students who schedule patients for extraction in the available oral surgery chairs. And b) If no student patients are scheduled, the rotating students must assist OMFS residents and faculty on simple cases and observe in complex cases. They may also participate in sedations assisting with the evaluation, monitoring and recovery of patients. It is the student’s responsibility to identify the ongoing cases and participate. 2) Extractions: Students will perform extractions on patients within the student population. After an extraction is indicated, treatment planned by dental faculty and sign by the patient, the responsible student must present the case to an oral surgery faculty. A recent panoramic film of diagnostic quality (within one year) is required for patient presentation. A note will be placed in the chart assigning the case as a junior case, senior case, or resident case. When the case is assigned as a junior case, students will be able to schedule patients in the available oral surgery student chairs. If the case is assigned as a senior or resident case, the student is responsible for referring the patient to the appropriate clinic. Patients cannot be scheduled before oral surgery faculty approve the case as a junior student case. Junior students cannot schedule their own patients during their assigned OSA rotation shifts in the oral surgery clinic. If a student schedules a patient before approval or during the OSA rotation, they will be suspended from extraction clinic for a period of two (2) weeks. Repeating offenders will be suspended double the time of their previous suspension. 3) Students will not get surgical assist credit for participating in procedures during their assigned rotation shifts. 4) Enrolled students must complete the requirements of each individual area to obtain a satisfactory grade (S). Lab Hours: 1 Repeatability: May be repeated for credit up to two times. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory, Audit Schedule Type (Primary): Supervised Lab/Clinic Click here for the Schedule of Classes.