IOS Fellowship on Cleft Lip & Palate

The importance of the multispecialty approach to the care of children with clefts cannot be overemphasized. The ACPA (American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association/Cleft Palate Foundation, 1504 East Franklin Street, Suite 102, Chapel Hill, NC 27514–2820, www.cleftline.org) and the Team Standards Committee have published the standard of care in the management of cleft children. The needs of cleft children are multifactorial, and to take them on as an independent practitioner is often to the detriment of the patient. The need for management of cleft lip and palate deformities at multiple levels is easy to appreciate when one begins to list the functional and anatomic areas affected by the deformity.

I have successfully completed the IOS fellowship for the same.