1-Year Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology Fellowship Program

UF Advanced Dental Education

Fellowship in Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology

Details

The Continuing Education Fellowship in Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology is a one year program. A CE certificate is awarded on program completion. The curriculum is specifically designed to provide in-depth exposure to a sufficient quantity and quality of material to allow the fellow to accumulate knowledge and become proficient in the various objectives.  This is accomplished through a combination of didactic classes, clinical patient contacts, patient consultations, surgical sign-out sessions, clinical-pathologic conferences, seminars, individual interaction with the mentors, and personal study. This is designed for an Oral & Maxillofacial Pathologist.

Clinical experience is gained through treatment of patients in the Oral Medicine and Oncology Clinic, as well as through clinical consultations requested by pre-doctoral and post-graduate residents, intern/fellows. This provides a broad exposure to a multitude of simple and complex clinical situations that build an experience base in evaluation, diagnosis, and management of pathologic conditions in the head and neck area.

Fellows are continually supervised by the three graduate faculty, who are diplomates of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. Fellows are challenged by an ever-increasing level of difficulty in the material to which they are exposed.  This is regulated directly by the faculty in the selection of surgical unknown cases, clinical pathologic conference cases, and in oral question-and-answer sessions at the daily sign-out conference.  The fellows are expected to review cases in detail and research the diagnoses during the workday when they are not specifically scheduled elsewhere. This adheres to our philosophy that learning should have an active component on the part of the fellow.  The responsibility for learning and attainment of proficiency is, therefore, the joint responsibility of the faculty and the individual fellow.

The final goal of the curriculum is also to provide the fellow the tools to achieve all the necessary knowledge and skills to competently utilize in his or her own country as an Oral and maxillofacial pathologist.

Objectives

At the completion of the program, it is expected that the fellow will be able to:

• Examine, interpret, and prepare gross tissue specimens for tissue embedding and processing
• Recognize normal tissue microscopically
• Recognize and interpret pathologic changes, separating diseases by histopathologic patterns into well-defined differential diagnostic categories
• Arrive at a final histopathologic diagnosis, using critical thinking skills combined with application of knowledge, to narrow the histopathologic differential diagnosis to a single entity
• Apply and interpret special histochemical procedures as an aid to microscopic diagnosis
• Apply and interpret advanced immunohistochemical techniques to difficult diagnostic situations to assist in arriving at a final microscopic diagnosis
• Apply and interpret immunofluorescent techniques to vesiculo-bullous and lichenoid lesions to arrive at a definitive diagnosis
• Apply and interpret in-situ hybridization studies where indicated
• Provide a pathology report with final diagnosis and appropriate comments and recommendations for faculty to provide feedback on.
• Communicate effectively with contributing clinicians and general pathologists
• Record a complete and comprehensive medical/dental history, highlighting salient points that impact on clinical pathology present in the patient
• Interpret clinical pathologic changes, grouping diseases according to the clinical presentation, in order to arrive at a differential diagnosis, and ultimately a final diagnosis
• Interpret appropriate clinical laboratory studies to assist in arriving at a final diagnosis
• Interpret appropriate radiographic studies to assist in arriving at a final diagnosis
• Observe, evaluate and participate in providing treatment plan for patients with a wide variety of oral mucosal diseases and conditions
• Critically evaluate scientific literature, with particular emphasis on literature involving the head and neck area

Department:

DN-ORAL PATHOLOGY

Mohammed N Islam BDS DDS

Clinical Professor & Residency Program Director

Department:

DN-ORAL PATHOLOGY

Indraneel Bhattacharyya DDS, MSD

Professor & Division Director, Oral And Maxillofacial Pathology

Department:

DN-ORAL PATHOLOGY

Sarah G Fitzpatrick DDS

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

“I declare that neither I nor any member of my family has a financial arrangement or affiliation with any corporate organization offering financial support or grant monies for this continuing dental education program greater than $999, nor do I have a financial interest greater than $1,000 in any commercial product(s) I will discuss in the presentation.”

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