Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery training in Puerto Rico
Trinidad-Pinedo, J.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 92(9-12): 101-105
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 14619141 Document Number: 9516
The Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery training program of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical School, is enjoining a full accreditation by the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Since its foundation 76 Otolaryngologist--Head Neck surgeons have graduated, the first class was in 1962 and the last in June 1998, ten of them moved to the mainland where they practice or teach in renown universities. Our program is five year's durations, and it includes one year of general surgery and four years of progressive education in the specialty. Experience in the surgical sciences will precede the otolaryngology--head and neck surgery education, two residents are accepted each year.
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