Curriculum
Didactic Courses
GPR residents have to attend core course and program-required courses to supplement and support their clinical experiences.
Core Courses
DEN 400: Medical-Dental Inter-relationships- DEN 401: Dentistry for Geriatric Patients and for People with ILDD
- DEN 407: Ethical Guidelines for Dentists
- DEN 409: Orofacial Pain and Headaches
- DEN 411: Oral Diseases and Pathologies
- DEN 412: Oral Implantology
- DEN 413: Advanced Oral Implantology
- DEN 415: Practice Management
- DEN 416: Advanced Oral Medicine and Clinical Pathology
- DEN 417: Principles of Evidence-Based Dentistry
- DEN 440: Control of Pain and Anxiety with Anesthesia Techniques
- DEN 441: Physical Diagnosis
- DEN 442: Basic Concepts in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- DEN 443: Basic Dental Implantology
Program Courses
- Clinical Dentistry and Treatment Planning Case Conference
- Literature Review
- Endodontics Workshop
- Prosthodontics Seminar
- Periodontics Seminar
- Hospital Organization and Credentialing
- General Practice Presentation
Required Rotations
The GPR program provides patient care in three sites – Strong Memorial Hospital, Eastman Institute for Oral Health Main Building, and Eastman Institute for Oral Health Downtown.
Strong Memorial Hospital
- Anesthesia (72 hours)
- Emergency Medicine (72 hours)
- Hospital Dentistry
- Operating Room
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Eastman Institute for Oral Health (Main Building)
- Specialty Care Clinic
- Howitt Urgent Dental Care Center
Eastman Institute for Oral Health (Sibley Building)
On-call
The after-hours emergency service provides GPR residents with experience in diagnoses and management of patients with acute dental needs (odontogenic infection, odontalgia, dentoalveolar and soft tissue trauma, post-operating bleeding) in a multi-disciplinary setting.
Calls are taken from home via a pager. The GPR resident on-call will go to the ED to evaluate and manage dental patients when paged. On-call coverage is every day, including weekends and holidays.