Department of Otolaryngology - Affiliated Hospitals

A 551 bed medical center in the Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn, Long Island College Hospital (LICH) is the main location of the administrative and clinical offices of the Department of Otolaryngology, as well as the Division of Communicative Disorders. LICH also operates a CT head and whole body scanner, MRI scanner, an ESRD unit and 26 CRDS stations, and a nuclear medicine facility.

The hospital offers approved residency training programs in the following disciplines: allergy and immunology, dentistry, diagnostic radiology, internal medicine, nuclear medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics. The hospital’s programs in the following disciplines are fully integrated with those of the Health Science Center: anesthesiology, neurology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, radiation therapy, surgery and urology.

Five residents rotate at LICH including one resident in a research rotation during the third otolaryngology year. LICH has an active emergency room. The hospital also has a large medical library containing 6,000 texts and 400 journals. The Department of Otolaryngology has its own library of recent otolaryngology texts, videotapes, current journals and a computer workstation for resident use. Grand Rounds and Basic Science lectures are held in this institution which is easily accessible from all affiliated hospitals. Animal surgical facilities are located across the street from the hospital with three full-time veterinary and technical staff.

The Department of Otolaryngology is actively involved in large and small animal research, basic science, and audiological research in this institution. Four full time audiologists perform all current tests and are engaged in several projects. Long Island College Hospital has an approved residency in Allergy and Immunology with a full time director. Both departments share clinical and academic programs.

A Temporal Bone Surgical Dissection Laboratory was installed in January 1994. The laboratory is fully equipped with surgical instrumentation and microscopes. The educational capabilities are enhanced by a full video system to highlight video taped instruction as well as monitoring of an instructor’s dissection. The laboratory has stimulated an increased utilization of Temporal Bone teaching. Our residents currently receive a three month instruction course in Temporal Bone anatomy and surgical dissection in each of their four years of training. Post graduate courses, including the instruction of laser application to Otologic surgery, are held on a regular basis at this facility.