During your residency you will attend the following instructional sessions. Conferences devoted primarily to periodontics are held twice a week. A periodontic-prosthodontic conference is held once a month during the fall, winter and spring quarters to discuss treatment planning for complex cases. All residents and consultants in both sections participate in these conferences. A biweekly conference in oral pathology includes case studies, diagnostic quizzes and presentations by a surgical pathologist.
Elective courses are available in statistics, immunology, nutrition and pharmacology.
Educational opportunities in allied medical areas are available when you are assigned to clinical rotations in dermatology, surgical pathology, anesthesiology and infectious diseases. Research Training You will be encouraged to pursue a research project and write a thesis during your periodontics residency. Most residents allocate 24 weeks each year to a thesis project. Your research opportunities at Mayo are outstanding and include areas such as immunology, microbiology-virology, pathology, electron microscopy and clinical studies covering all aspects of periodontal therapy. When you complete a thesis and successfully pass Mayo's oral and written examinations, you will be awarded a Master of Biomedical Sciences degree by Mayo Graduate School.