Resident 2024

Basic science of healing (anatomy, phys, biochem, microbiology, immunology, pharm for wound healing of skin, soft tissue, tendon, bone (different types), nerve, cartilage, vessels

Jeremy/Adam

Abnormal wound healing (delayed wound healing physiology and treatment; scar/hypertrophic/keloid physiology, pathophysiology, surgical treatment with z/w-plasty, nonsurgical treatment, camouflage techniques)

Principles of wound management (debridement with mechanical, surgical, enzymatic, biologic; types of dressings and topicals; VAC physiology/indicationstreatment/complications; preserving skin/bone/tendon/cartilage/nerve (principles, techniques, biologic substitutes)

Orbital floor diagnostic methods (exam, imaging), facial fracture biologic and bio-mechanical aspects of injury and healing (historical theory, favorability, reduction, stabilization, soft tissue consideration), surgical approaches and techniques

Mandible diagnostic methods (exam, imaging), facial fracture biologic and bio-mechanical aspects of injury and healing (historical theory, favorability, reduction, stabilization, soft tissue consideration), surgical approaches and techniques

Premalignant and malignant (DCIS, LCIS, carcinoma, inflammatory cancer, phyllodes, paget's) pathology, biology, diagnosis (mammography, ultrasound, MRI, CT, biopsy), genetic evaluation (management of BRCA, ADH, LCIS)

Premalignant and malignant staging, chemo, radiation, surgery (lumpectomy, mastectomy (nipple sparing, skin sparing, simple, modified radical, radical), lymph node management, management of recurrence local vs metastatic

Technical aspects of microsurgery (microscope principles/usage, suture size/indications, suture techniques for vessel/nerve/lymphatics, couplers), principles of nerve/vessel repair

UE and LE amputations (types, modes of injury, acute/delayed management, elective amputation, wound coverage, goals, pain management, rehab, prostheses) and where nerves are located in for TMR, RPNI, VDMT

Breast implants/expanders (types, biologic characteristics, clinical choices, BIA-ALCL presentation/diagnosis/treatment, other breast implant associated malignancies, US FDA requirements)

Complications and prevention/management; capsular contracture etiology/prevention/management; Long-term mammography/mri/ultrasound, implant failure, functional concerns

Pressure sore surgical principles (heterotopic ossification, debridement, bx, suture line positioning, surgical mngt of stage II/III, postop/rehab), Surgical treatment of ischium (local flaps, muscle and musculocutaneous flaps, distant flaps, complications and management)

Surgical treatment of sacrum, trochanter, and recalcitrant (local flaps, muscle and musculocutaneous flaps, distant flaps, fillet/disarticulation, complications and management)

Graft physiology (skin, dermis, cartilage, bone, tendon, muscle, nerve, fat, fascia, combined) and Techniques (instruments to harvest grafts, graft preservation techniques, donor site management, recipient site management, special techniques, tissue engineered skin substrates, complications)

Diagnosis criteria of migraine and occipital neuralgia and trigeminal neuralgia; pathophysiology of migraine and migraine surgery; evidence for nerve block/botox as treatment and predictor of surgical success

Cleft lip etiology, genetics, pathologic anatomy, classification, nonsurgical treatment (prosthetics, orthodontics, speech therapy), surgical treatment (primary, secondary, and principles of bilateral)

6 Rebecca

Indications, outcomes, complications for liposuction, VLNT, Chen-modified Charles procedure, RPP procedure, Lymphaticovenular bypass, excision for genital/scrotal lymphedema

What demarcates perineum from vagina; Developmental abnormalities of the vagina (etiology, associated syndromes, workup) and perineum (i.e. anorectal malformation); epidemiology for acquired vaginal and perineum defects (tumor, trauma, infection)

Embryo of head and neck, etiology/pathogenesis/treatment of choanal atresia, nasal agenesis, thyroglossal duct cyst and sinus, branchial cyst and sinus, Robin sequence

Etiology/genetics, pathologic anatomy, classification, nonsurgical treatments (prosthetics, orthodontics, speech therapy, psychology) and surgical treatments for craniosynostosis, craniofacial microsomia, rare clefts, rare or unclassified syndromes (Apert, Crouzon, Treacher Collins, Pfeiffer, Saethre Chotzen)

Etiology/genetics, pathologic anatomy, classification, nonsurgical treatments (prosthetics, orthodontics, speech therapy, psychology) and surgical treatments hypertrophy (hyperplasia, neoplasia), atrophy (hemifacial, hyplasia), Congenital colobomata

Path/biologic behavior and surgical/nonsurgical treatment for benign epithelial and adnexal tumors (nevi, spitz nevus, papillomas, keratinous cysts, pilomatrixoma, xanthelasmata, spiradenoma, dermatofibroma, cylindroma), and benign mesodermal tumors (hemangioma, vascular malformations, cystic hygroma)

Path/biologic behavior and surgical/nonsurgical treatment for premalignant skin tumors (actinic keratosis, nevus sebaceous of jadassohn, keratoacanthoma), and tumors of eyelid and lacrimal apparatus

Nerve internal anatomy, pathophysiology of acute vs chronic injury, exam features to differentiate compression at wrist from forearm, nonsurgical (type of splints, sensory re-education) and surgical treatment of brachial plexus neuritis, CTS, Guyon's canal

jason/adam/max

Flexor tendon injury (volar anatomy/relationships/compartments, techniques of evaluating tendon/muscle injury in hand/arm, principles of immediate surgical/non-op management, principles of delayed surgical/non-op management, physiology of tendon grafts, technique/indications/sources/prostheses for tendon repair and grafts)

Extensor tendon injury (dorsal anatomy/relationships/compartments, techniques of evaluating dorsal tendon/muscle injury in hand/arm, principles of immediate surgical/non-op management, principles of delayed surgical/non-op management), (please note that tendon repair techniques is covered by the flexor tendon lecturer)