Residents have access to a variety of research facilities, both on the Stony Brook University main and medical campuses and at outside facilities. On campus at Stony Brook Medicine, there are numerous laboratories available for our residents to work on basic science projects.
Faculty in our department and throughout the school, who are affiliated with the basic sciences, lecture on topics such as introduction to research requirements and introduction to the surgical quality data users group database, and are available to mentor residents interested in basic science programs.
In addition to basic science activities completed at Stony Brook Medicine, residents will have the opportunity to work off-site with identified mentors and collaborators at cooperating institutions. There has been a recent affiliation of Stony Brook with Mount Sinai Medical Center designed to provide additional support and resources for research.
Computer search capabilities are available through a variety of mechanisms. Stony Brook University maintains an internet-accessible system for searching the medical literature.
Currently, all residents at Stony Brook have access to the Health Sciences Library and 24-hour access to the online library.
The library maintains a current print collection of over 170,000 serial and monograph volumes, more than 95,000 books, more than 4,200 electronic books, about 20 print journals, and over 10,000 electronic journals.
Additionally, the library supports access to over 290 primarily web-based electronic research databases, including ACCESSMedicine, ClinicalKey, DynaMed, MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, UpToDate, and Web of Science.
Our residents have a library of otolaryngology texts also available to them in the Health Sciences Center in our division chief's office for them to utilize. This is a library system.
Biostatistical consultation is available through resources at Stony Brook Medicine for research projects. The residents are also allowed a small stipend that may be applied to books, conferences they are not presenting at, or other educational materials approved by the faculty.
The Department of Surgery also has a Surgical Skills Center with simulation technology, which is used to train residents in the diagnosis and management of the difficult airway in children and adults (including tracheotomy) and management of aerodigestive foreign bodies.
To promote technical proficiency, residents in all five levels of training are required to attend a hands-on simulation course in which they receive instruction and guided practice on flexible and rigid laryngscopy, esophagoscopy, and bronchoscopy, foreign body removal, and endotracheal intubation using cadaver models in an approved simulation center.
