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Introduction
The Department of Otolaryngology of the NYU School of Medicine offers
a five-year residency, consisting of 4 full years of training in
Otolaryngology, following a year of General Surgery rotations. The
Residency is uniquely centered in a four-hospital system, which
includes two voluntary hospitals, one of them being the University
Hospital of New York University, a City Hospital and a Veterans
Administration Hospital. Three of these hospitals are conveniently
situated along a ten-block stretch on First Avenue in the heart
of Manhattan. The fourth, Lenox Hill Hospital, is a voluntary hospital
located on Manhattan's Upper East Side and has a superb Otolaryngology
staff. Lenox Hill Hospital is also associated with Manhattan Eye
Ear & Throat Hospital (MEETH), located a few blocks away on the
Upper East Side. Each hospital offers a different health care environment,
which when combined provides a rich overall residency experience.
All four locations are staffed by NYU faculty and housestaff, and
share an integrated residency teaching program. The NYU School of
Medicine is also affiliated with Gouverneur Hospital. However, there
are no resident rotations in this institution. NYU Medical Center
is affiliated with Mt. Sinai Medical Center; however, the Schools
of Medicine and their departments of Otolaryngology remain independent.
The Department provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient
services at the Medical Center. Each of the three hospitals along
First Avenue has specialty clinics in addition to General Adult
Clinics. The Otology, Rhinology, Allergy, Head and Neck, Pediatric
and Facial Plastic Clinics and the operating room are staffed by
Attending physicians in that specialty, providing a high level of
expertise at all the institutions.
The New York University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology
has a multifaceted educational program involving formal didactic
teaching as well as hospital rounds. The department conducts monthly
Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, which involves an invited speaker on
contemporary topics of interest to the faculty and resident staff.
Morbidity and Mortality (Quality Assurance) conference is used as
an educational forum to discuss interesting and challenging cases.
Weekly rotating resident clinical conferences focusing on subspecialty
areas including Otology/Neurotology, Facial Plastics/Trauma, Rhinology
and Sinus Disease, and Pediatric Otolaryngology are held by the
Faculty. Based on a two-year cycle, these resident conferences are
designed to systematically cover the entire breadth of Otolaryngology.
Additional didactic instruction is provided for first year residents
in our Basic Science Course. This course runs from September through
May and provides one half-day per week of protected classroom and
laboratory instruction in otolaryngologic anatomy, physiology, histology
and pathology. Practical and laboratory instruction is provided
in our own fully equipped 12 station Temporal Bone Laboratory as
well as in the Anatomy Laboratories of the School of Medicine.
The Department provides hearing and speech services at each major
hospital. Residents are trained in the proper use and interpretation
of the various audiologic and vestibular tests, including brain-stem
evoked response testing, oto-acoustic emissions testing, electronystagmography,
and dynamic posturography.
The Department of Otolaryngology strongly supports resident research
at all levels. Residents are expected to participate in research
beyond the three-month resident research rotation. Basic Science
research is encouraged in collaboration with the department's laboratories
or in conjunction with labs at New York University. The department
provides time and financial support of resident presentations to
all major Otolaryngology meetings and meetings of subspecialties
in Otolaryngology.
In addition to an extensive collection of materials in the field
of Otolaryngology at our own newly refurbished Shannon Alumni Library,
the Medical Center provides an additional library service for Department
members at the School of Medicine Library as well as at the libraries
of the constituent hospitals. Computer equipment has the capacity
to produce high presentations, including slide scanning and production
as well as video editing. The Department also has a full range of
audio-visual teaching aids, including a videotape library of otolaryngology
instruction and on-line computer services in the Shannon Library.
Click here for information about the Otology/Neurotology
Fellowship
The Future
The NYU Medical Center is uniquely positioned to deal with the major
changes and challenges facing the health care community as we move
into the era of managed care. We have already established significant
clinical relationships with other regional hospitals to improve
our referral base. The attending staff at Tisch Hospital has organized
to negotiate contracts to provide health care to major insurance
carriers and will further contract directly with large local employers
in the future. More surgery in recent years has been moved to outpatient
settings than ever before and all of our hospitals have responded
to these requirements by expanding their outpatient operating suites.
The NYU Medical Center has been a recognized leader in the health
care community and will continue to provide the finest possible
care to our patients and the best possible training to our housestaff.
Application Procedure
The NYU Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology participates
in the National Residency Matching Program. All hospitals are equal
opportunity employers and the department encourages applications
by women and minority candidates.
Click here for link
to NRMP Match Information
Applicants should complete their applications by November 1. Interviews
for PGY-1 positions beginning July 2006 will occur in December,
2005.
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