No residency program offers more diversity in settings than UTSWMC in Dallas.
Parkland Memorial Hospital is the health care facility operated by the Dallas County Hospital District. The hospital district was established in 1954 following the passage of enabling legislation by the Texas Legislature and the approval of voters of Dallas County. The primary purpose, by law, of the Dallas County Hospital District is to provide medical care for the indigent population of Dallas County. Additionally, Parkland Memorial Hospital is a major teaching, research and emergency facility. At the present time, Parkland has approximately 800 beds, excluding infant bassinets. Three hundred and seventy-one beds are designated for surgical services, which have an occupancy rate of over 90%. Approximately 180,000 emergency room visits are logged in yearly and there are more than 300,000 outpatient visits per year.
Dallas VA Medical Center has a total bed capacity of more than 700 beds, of which 273 are designated as surgical beds. The VA Medical Center is a typical VA hospital and is governed by a Dean's Committee.
Children's Medical Center Dallas is a 321 bed pediatric hospital with very active medical and pediatric surgical services. CMC is currently under major expansion of their hospital.
St. Paul and Zale Lipshy University Hospitals serves the private patients of the faculty of the medical school. The Otolaryngology Department maintains busy services at these hospitals.
John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth
Below is more detail about each hospital and how we interact with it.
The Dallas Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, originally organized under Donald Corgill, M.D., is a regional referral center for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and is staffed by four of the departmental residents at all times. There are approximately 10,000 outpatient visits and 2,500 major surgical procedures being performed each year. In addition to daily outpatient clinics, weekly specialty clinics are held in Otology and Head and Neck Oncology. Current construction will result in a new large otolaryngology clinic. Larry L. Myers, M.D. currently administers the program. Dr. Myers graduated from the University of Chicago Medical School and completed his residency at State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his fellowship in head & neck surgery and micro vascular reconstructive surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center and Ann Arbor VA Medical Center.
Parkland Memorial Hospital is a Level I (American College of Surgeons criteria) trauma center in Texas and provides Otolaryngology services in the form of 10,000 outpatient visits a year and 2,000 major surgical procedures. Parkland is staffed at all times by five residents and has recently undergone an $80 million renovation. Weekly specialty clinics include Otology, Head and Neck Oncology, Facial Plastic Surgery, and Geriatrics. Bradley F. Marple, M.D., directs clinical services. Dr. Marple is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He completed his residency training in otolaryngology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He currently serves as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery where he is active in rhinology and allergy.
John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth is staffed by Yadranko Ducic, M.D. It is the county hospital for Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Full otolaryngology services are offered, including thyroid and mandible surgery.
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery services at Children's Medical Center Dallas are directed by Orval E Brown, M.D. Dr. Brown is a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at this institution. Doctors Brown, Brenski, and McClay, the clinical faculty, and three otolaryngology residents are responsible for 12,000 outpatient visits and 3, 500 procedures performed annually at Children's Medical Center.
The Callier Center for Communication Disorders is part of the graduate school of the University of Texas at Dallas under the directorship of Ross Roeser, Ph.D. There are 74 faculty members in areas as diverse as neurophysiology, speech, audiology and psychoacoustic, and master and doctoral degrees are offered in both audiology and speech pathology.The hearing research basic science laboratory for the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is located at the Callier Center and is directed by Gary Wright, Ph.D., who is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children's Medical Center Dallas, the Callier Center for Communicative Disorders, Zale Lipshy Hospital, the professional office building for the faculty, and the administrative offices are all located on the main campus. The Department of Otolaryngology-HNS and its state of the art 17-station temporal bone laboratory are also situated on this campus. St. Paul Medical Center is across the street, and the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and John Peter Smith Hospital are several miles away.
The other hospitals affiliated with our training program are excellent general hospitals with active surgical services. Their surgical services are utilized for training purposes by some or all of the surgical specialties.
