Clinical faculty include generalists and specialists in a highly structured yet flexible educational environment. The largest block of residents time, approximately 7 months, is spent providing comprehensive care to patients in the Advanced General Dentistry Clinic. Clinical experience stresses diagnostic skills, complex restorative care, and esthetic dentistry. Residents can expect to gain experience with porcelain crowns, onlays, and veneers, simple orthodontics, alternative removable partial denture designs, and advanced periodontal and oral surgical techniques. The remainder of the year includes block rotations in Hospital Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and General Anesthesia.
Didactic instruction is an important part of the residency program.
Six hundred hours are devoted to lecture, seminar, continuing education courses and other presentations of wide ranging topics. General Practice residents complete an extensive course in Advanced Cardiac Life Support as well as training to competency in conscious sedation. As in the clinical curriculum, didactic instruction is provided by generalist and specialist faculty. An optional, second year of the residency is available for those first year residents who wish to broaden their experience in selected clinical areas such as implant dentistry. If selected into the second year, residents will spend a great amount of time in the Advanced General Dentistry Clinic providing comprehensive care to a wide variety of patients.