The general practice resident gains dental experience in six clinical facilities that make up the residency program. Each clinic site offers a different emphasis in patient care that complements the overall program.
All residents rotate through each site for approximately the same period of time.
University of North Carolina Hospitals is the predominant clinical facility used for resident education. The resident is assigned to the Division of Oral Medicine in the Department of Dentistry during the months spent in the Dental Clinics at University of North Carolina Hospitals. This facility, located in Chapel Hill, treats almost exclusively the medically compromised patient unable to get dental care in the local community because of his or her serious medical problems. Patients seen in this clinic have an extremely wide range of medical problems including head and neck cancer, organ transplants, AIDS, bleeding disorders, cardiac disease and renal disease. The Division of Maxillofacial Prosthetics performs a significant portion of its clinical treatment at the University of North Carolina Hospitals Dental Clinic.