PGY-2 through PGY-5 Overview

Locations:

University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview (UMMC); Children’s Hospital and Specialty

Clinic, Minneapolis and St. Paul (CH); Regions Hospital, St. Paul (Regions); Hennepin County

Medical Center, Minneapolis (HCMC); Minneapolis VA Health Care System (VA)

Education Program overview for all Residents PGY 2 – PGY 5

All residents are expected to attend Grand Teaching Rounds Tuesday mornings at the

Departmental conference room unless otherwise specified. The schedule is posted on the

department website. All residents are expected to attend the Department-wide Morbidity and

Mortality Conference the first Tuesday of the month as published on the department website.

The expectation of attendance occurs throughout residency training and attendance is recorded.

In addition each hospital of rotation maintains its own weekly or monthly conferences and

attendance is required while rotating at that hospital

University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview

Head & Neck Tumor Board (Friday)

Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis

Pediatric Conference (monthly)

Regions

Maxillofacial Trauma Radiology Conference (Monday AM)

Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery Conference w/Plastics (monthly)

VA

Education Conference w/Dr. Gapnay (Wednesday AM)

Tumor Board (Wednesday)

Hennepin County Medical Center

Citywide Otolaryngology Conference (once a month)

Otolaryngology Pathology Conference (once a month)

Otolaryngology Department Meeting, including case conference (once a month)

Journal Rounds (Friday)

Clinical program overview all residents (PGY2 – PGY-5)

All hospital rotations other than the University or Children’s perform as a general Otolaryngology

service where the chief resident assigns junior residents to cases and clinic.

HCMC Service:

faculty in head & neck (Odland, Goding), otology (Haberman), facial plastics

/ trauma (Odland, Walsh), pediatrics (Rimell), general and sinus (Schnitker, Skovlund, Boyer,

Rosenberg), Laryngology (Goding).

Regions service:

faculty in head & neck (Ondrey, Schmidt, Hamlar), facial plastics/trauma

(Dresner, Hamlar), general and sinus (Janus, Schmidt), otology (Fina).

Minneapolis VA Medical Center service:

Full time faculty (Caicedo-Granados and Gapany), and part time faculty in

laryngology (Goding), otology (Fina and Huang), and sleep (Froyomovich).

University of Minnesota (UMMC) service:

based on subspecialty assignments. PGY-2 is

otology/neurotology and sinus (Levine, Huang, Adams, Boyer); PGY-3 is head &

neck/reconstruction (Yueh, Lyford-Pike, Ondrey, Khaja, Khariwala); PGY-4 is pediatrics ( Masonic)-3

months (Roby, Meyer) and Laryngology, Rhinology, Skullbase and Sleep-3 months (Boyer,

Goding, Hsia, Misono); PGY-5 is allowed to participate in any area but must cover all endocrine

cases (Evasovich).

Children’s Hospitals and Specialty Clinics:

The PGY-2 resident and is all pediatrics as well as craniofacial and cleft palate

where the Otolaryngology service runs the cleft palate clinic and does the cases (Lander,Roby,

Tibesar).