Overview
The Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School offers a comprehensive residency training program leading to board certification. The curriculum encompasses all aspects of otolaryngology including head and neck and reconstructive surgery, facial plastic and maxillofacial surgery, nasal and endoscopic sinus surgery, otology and skull base surgery, laryngology, pediatric otolaryngology, allergy, and sleep medicine. Two or three residents are appointed each year on a rotating basis through the National Residency Matching Program.
Surgery and patient care are supervised by full-time faculty and by members of the community faculty. Residents rotate to clinical services at three hospitals. At Sentara Norfolk General Hospital residents are exposed to a wide variety of disorders, emphasizing the areas of trauma, head and neck oncology, neuro-otology, rhinology, and general otolaryngology, and features the Hearing and Balance Center, a regional referral facility equipped with the latest technology in auditory and vestibular testing. Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, the only full-service children’s hospital in Virginia, has recently expanded and houses a facility devoted to ambulatory care of pediatric otolaryngology patients. At Sentara Leigh Hospital the residents work with our community faculty in all areas of general otolaryngology. The ten member full-time faculty includes otolaryngologists with fellowship training in the areas of head and neck surgery, reconstructive surgery (2), laryngology (1), pediatric otolaryngology (3), neurotology and skull base surgery (2), plastic surgery (1), and rhinology (1).
Residents are required to attend formal teaching rounds and weekly, biweekly or monthly conferences in head and neck tumor treatment, surgical pathology, oral medicine, otology and neurotology, pediatric otolaryngology, and laryngology. Otolaryngology grand rounds are held weekly. Courses given by department faculty include a basic science course for first year residents, microvascular surgery, sinus surgery, reconstructive surgery and a course in temporal bone anatomy and surgery. Journal club is held monthly. Mock oral board exams are conducted annually in conjunction with the residency at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Morbidity and mortality conferences are held quarterly. Residents are also responsible for medical student teaching and serve as instructors for the anatomy course at the medical school.
Second year (PGY 3) residents have a three-six month rotation in which to develop and execute a research project, which will culminate in presentation at a national meeting. Funding for research is available from a variety of sources.
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