Queen Elizabeth University Hospital - Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery

Individual placement description

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

F1

West

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow

Under supervision of appropriate medical trained staff/trainers to provide medical care for surgical patients in OMFS ward.

Basic hours, no out of hours committment.

Exposure to complex head and neck cancer and trauma patients as well as patient undergoing surgery for facial disfigurement.  Gaining a more depth understanding and head and neck surgery.

As these are new posts the service would work with the doctors to include them in the current teaching timetable support by protected time.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a small surgical specialty that involves complex reconstructive and functional aesthetic work which in the past junior doctors would rarely gain access to.  Allow the junior doctor the opportunity to gain a unique insight to the pathologies represented in the head and neck which can be dental in origin and therefore not experienced in any other surgical specialty.