The Harvard Dental Center's Faculty Group Practice was renovated five years ago, as part of an expression of renewal throughout the School. The old clinic was stodgy-looking, sparsely populated, and hidden away from the School's main activities. The practice also hosts two large operating rooms, as well as the latest in diagnostic radiology facilities. This facility sits in the middle of the School of Dental Medicine because it is an integral part of the School's problem-based curriculum. Our practices allow pre- and postdoctoral students to work next to faculty.
Faculty also mentor students in treatment teams.
And it's one of the only dental schools with a financially successful faculty group practice. The patient population was also very small then. But now, in the bustling Harvard Dental Center, two busy practices are carried out. While downstairs, the faculty and postdoctoral students work side by side on cases, predoctoral students deliver care upstairs, in teams and under the supervision of faculty and senior tutors. You need to dive in, to learn by doing.