Residents also are responsible for seeing emergency room consults. The junior level residents perform the majority of direct patient care on the wards. The upper level residents are responsible for operative scheduling and administrative functions. Residents are actively involved in the teaching of medical students. Each resident has a rotation during the four years of otolaryngology training to carry out a research project.
Opportunities are available in all areas of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.
In general, each resident will have the majority of two weekends free per month. Senior level residents rotate coverage of second call on a weekly basis. These are provided by the otolaryngology faculty, residents, and faculty members from appropriately related disciplines. A basic science course including anatomic head and neck cadaver dissections is conducted each year through this conference. Tumor conferences in coordination with the Department of Radiation Oncology are held every Thursday afternoon.