Residents also participate in the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Home Study Course. Residents are given four weeks vacation each year. In-house call is required during the first 4 years of training. The laboratory consists of 15 individual drilling stations each equipped with a Zeiss operating microscope. One of the stations is equipped with a video camera and monitor for teaching purposes.
Residents participate in a monthly drilling course supervised by most of the faculty members.
The laboratory is also open to the residents or staff at all times for extra dissection. Each resident is required to participate in a yearly research project supervised by one or more staff members. The research projects are presented at a yearly departmentally-sponsored research forum named after a previous department chairman, Marlow Manion. This portion of the residency facilitates critical thinking and gives the residents experience in presenting their research. Some research projects are presented at regional or national meetings or published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.