Surgical Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology

ORP 802 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This biweekly surgical oral pathology conference is designed to train oral medicine residents in the diagnosis of characteristic and common oral pathologic conditions. Participants will be assigned key readings and provided in advance with limited clinical histories and microscopic slides and will prepare written descriptions and differential diagnoses in advance to discuss at each session, at which residents will offer their interpretations and receive feedback from one another and from the instructor. In addition, three review sessions of basic histology and histopathology are given to the junior residents. The objective of this course is to train students to become competent in the microscopic diagnosis of characteristic and common oral pathologic conditions that they will be expected to encounter routinely in clinical practice. A practical examination will be administered annually in which residents will be expected to demonstrate diagnostic competence and progression.