Otolaryngology Residency

Department Chair: Steven Chang, M.D.
Program Director: Alvin Ko, M.D.
Years of training: Five
Number of positions: 3 every other year and 13 total

Direct inquiries to: Christina Hines, Residency Program Coordinator Department of Otolaryngology (either by email or phone at (313) 916-9046)

We are a nationally recognized MD training program (ranked among the top 50 in the country by US News & World Report as of 2023) that fulfills the requirements of the American Board of Otolaryngology and is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Most of our core faculty are members of the Henry Ford Medical Group with appointments at Wayne State University School of Medicine and are committed to providing our residents complete and rigorous training in all aspects of otolaryngologic care, including all subspecialties.  

The residency is centered at Henry Ford Hospital but also covers the following locations:

• Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital — We cover the whole hospital on the inpatient side with the help of an awesome physician assistant and also have a busy outpatient clinic there. Over the course of your residency, you might spend about 1/3 of your time here.
• Henry Ford Medical Center – Fairlane — This is where a fair number of our faculty do clinic as well as outpatient surgeries in the ambulatory surgery center. As residents, you do clinics and cases with faculty here intermittently.
• Henry Ford Medical Center – Plymouth — This is like Fairlane but situated in the western part of the Metro Detroit area.
• Henry Ford Medical Center – Lakeside — This is like Fairlane but situated in the northeastern part of the Metro Detroit area. It is the closest outpatient clinic we have to Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, a 350+ bed community hospital with ICU/ER care; as residents you occasionally get to do cases at Macomb but do not cover call there.
• Henry Ford Medical Center – Cottage — This is another satellite office featuring our department like Fairlane but a little bit smaller in size.

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