New MD/OMS program offered by LLU

Charles Goodacre, SD'71, MSD, dean (right), and his wife, Ruthy, host a dinner honoring Philip Boyne, DMD, MS, DSc, emeritus professor, and his wife, Mary Anne, for their establishment of the Philip and Mary Anne Boyne oral & maxillofacial surgery/MD Scholarship Endowment fund.

In addition to the established four-year residency program in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS), a new combined OMS residency and MD degree track at LLU has been approved.

Applicants accepted into the six-year combined OMS/MD track are granted advanced standing in the School of Medicine.

Candidates must take the current licensing examination prior to graduation from medical school, and a one-year postgraduate internship in general surgery which fulfills the state medical licensure requirement.

The remainder of the program will fulfill the requirements for advanced education in oral and maxillofacial surgery, which includes a minimum of 30 months of oral and maxillofacial surgery experience.

Residents in the program practice in the clinical facilities of the School of Dentistry, LLUMC, Riverside Regional County Medical Center, and Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.

The residency includes extensive training in maxillofacial trauma, facial reconstruction, maxillofacial pathology, orthognathic surgery, aesthetic surgery, temporomandibular surgery, craniofacial surgery, and dentoalveolar surgery.

A gift in excess of $150,000 to LLU by Philip Boyne, DMD, MS, DSc, emeritus professor, and his wife, Mary Anne, is to establish a scholarship fund to help defray the medical school tuition costs of a participant in the program.

The scholarship will extend for a two-year period and then be available to a new applicant.