Oral and maxillofacial surgery accelerated dental programme for medical graduates: a review of fourteen graduating years (2010-2023).

The accelerated dental degree, pioneered by King's College London (KCL) to facilitate dual qualification training pathways for primary medical degree trainees, has graduated its fourteenth class. The authors present data to demonstrate and analyse the success of the course, which was accumulated through an online questionnaire, direct communication with the alumni, a freedom of information request from KCL, and review of the General Dental and Medical Council registers. To date 133 students have graduated with updated information collated for 132 (99.

MaxSim: a novel simulation-based education course for OMFS emergencies.

For oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) senior house officers (SHOs) with no formal medical training, the first exposure to emergency scenarios will be the first time they have to manage them, usually alone. Simulation-based education (SBE) has been demonstrated to increase experience and confidence when used in medical education, so an OMFS SBE course was created to facilitate this. The course was centred on scenarios that necessitate a rapid response, including sepsis, retrobulbar haemorrhage, and carotid artery blowout.

Minimally-invasive surgery in the management of symptomatic parotid stones.

Traditionally, large, symptomatic, parotid stones that were refractory to conservative treatment were usually managed by parotidectomy, with the attendant risk to the facial nerve. Microendoscopes have transformed the management of such stones. For large stones that are not amenable to retrieval with a basket the endoscope provides a new dimension to operative surgery.