Students must be prepared to manage their time and monitor progress in courses that are in various stages of completion. Essential technical skills are taught, with sufficient practice opportunity for students to perfect them. Students who successfully complete the program are competent oral health practitioners capable of managing patients oral health needs with a sensitivity to their general health. NYU graduates are well prepared to enter the practice of general dentistry or to pursue careers in dental specialties, dental education, or dental research. Students will be taught to focus knowledge in the biomedical sciences on the specific conditions in the oral environment.
Patient care is a major emphasis in the curriculum.
Students have contact with patients beginning in their first year and have continuous contact thereafter. Students at New York University College of Dentistry provide more patient care than at any other dental college nationwide. While patient care takes place primarily within the college s clinics, assignments are made to outreach centers and to a number of affiliated institutions. Students gain experience working with patients with special needs through assignments to long-term care facilities for the elderly and through the college s active outreach programs to the homeless. In the college s Milbank Special Care Clinic, students learn the special skills and sensitivity that are necessary to work with patients with special needs.