Introduction
Bobby R. Alford, M.D.
Program Overview General Surgery
Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Research
Lectures, Conferences and Workshops
Visiting Professor
Faculty
Baylor College of Medicine
Affiliated Hospitals
Houston
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One highlight of Baylor's Residency Program is the research block in the PGY-3 year for clinical residents. This experience is designed to introduce research design and the critical thought process used in laboratory science, thereby providing the resident with strong scientific insight to apply to the practice of medicine.
The Department has available a 7-year research track residency training position funded by the National Institutes of Health. This unique program interfaces smoothly with our current otolaryngology residency program. Residents who match into this program will do two years of research training after their PGY – 1 year of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery [OTO-HNS]. The research opportunity is available through Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center – the joint sponsors of the training program. Upon completion of the two year research training period, the resident would integrate back into our OTO-HNS residency program to complete training. Opportunities exist throughout the remaining years of residency to continue with research endeavors. The purpose of this research residency tract is to train clinician-scientists. Only one new trainee will be admitted to this program each year.
Many residents work with faculty within the department who are world leaders in the fields of cochlear biophysics, hair cell transduction, vestibular compensation, cochlear development, mechanisms of inflammation, and outcomes me asures in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Residents have also worked in other laboratories at Baylor or at other affiliated institutions, including Rice University and the UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, pursuing projects in tumorigenesis and molecular genetics. Our residents find this time to be extremely rewarding, and they are able to enhance their training through scientific presentations and publications.
Frequently, residents present their work at national meetings including the Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, The Triologic Society, the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, and the American Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery meetings. Baylor residents' projects have won research awards from the Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, the Triologic Society, and the Texas Association of Otolaryngology. The Department is also the home of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, a consortium of biomedical research laboratories from the nation's leading universities, which have come together to better understand the effects of weightlessness and space radiation and to develop countermeasures to mitigate the risks of long duration human space flight.
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