Curriculum

Thursday morning teaching

• All Oakland residents should attend 0700-0900

• The 2nd year residents are responsible for bringing the keyboard/mouse equipment and help with setup

• Notes should not be worked on during education. Finish notes before or after. 

Journal Club

• Usually every 2nd Tuesday of the month

• Rotate between attending selected articles v resident selected articles.

Temporal bone lab

• Organized by Dr. Rivero and T-bone lab resident reps

• Guest lecturers followed by lab time

HNC Regional Multi-Disciplinary Clinic (Tumor Board)

• Usually every Thursday

• The resident on Cancer month will likely be the resident going to this

• Use the specific dot phrase and fill out prior to clinic

Grand Rounds

• Quarterly every 3rd Friday of July, October, January, April

• Organized by the assigned resident

• Residents are responsible for a 20 - 30 minute presentation

M&M&M - Morbidity, Mortality, and Misdiagnosis (Missed) conference

• Quarterly, usually held on the same day as Grand Rounds

• Short presentations with concise history, reflection on what/why, and evidence based learning points.

Regional conferences and courses

• UCSF Oto-Update (and other disciplines like Voice, H&N, etc.)

• Stanford Soft Tissue/Facial Plastic Course and Laryngology courses (and other updates like Pediatric, etc.)

• California Ear/Sinus Institute Sinus Course (for seniors)

• Seattle Science Foundation Otology and Advanced Rhinology

Self-study

• Emphasis is placed on performance on the in-service (usually on the 1st Saturday of March)

Home Study Course

• by the Academy

• to be completed quarterly