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Dental Residency Program Curriculum
Didactic Program:
Length of Program:1st Year: 1-Year, The academic year starts in July and ends in June. Number of Positions: 4
Length of Program: 2nd year: 1-Year, The academic year starts in July and ends in June. Number of Positions: 1
Typical Academic and Clinical Schedule
 FIRST YEAR PROGRAM:
The Program includes: lectures, demonstrations, and direct experience in hospital protocol and practice, physical diagnosis, pain control, the compromised patient, and emergency care. The one month rotation in Anesthesia is provided with an emphasis on the use of inhalation and intravenous sedation for the ambulatory patients. Lectures, seminars, conferences, assigned case presentations and audiovisual presentations constitute the didactic portions of the program. The program requires resident research and each resident selects, researches and submits a topic for St. Elizabeth Health Center’s Resident Research Day.
Instruction in Advanced Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ACLS) is provided during orientation week. Thirty hours per week of structured clinic time is provided in the 4,000 square foot dental ambulatory clinic facility.
Clinical Block Rotations:
Anesthesia
Emergency Room/Triage
Pathology
Laboratory
Radiology
Sleep Lab
ENT
Hyperbaric Medicine
Family Medicine
| Additional Experiences:
Mobile Dental Van
Heart/Lung/Physical Assessment
Oral Surgery
Oncology/Hematology
IV and Parenteral Sedation
Dental Implantology
Dental Traumatology
TMJ/Orofacial Pain
| On Call Requirements:
Pager from home
On-site on call room available
Every fourth night call
One weekend/month
Equitable holiday distribution |
Residents are also assigned to serve on various hospital committees that are beneficial to their professional and personal growth and development.
SECOND YEAR PROGRAM: Postgraduate residents who have successfully completed training in a GPR program, are encouraged to apply.
This program aims to build upon and broaden the clinical and didactic knowledge of the resident. Advanced training includes: rotary endodontics, implantology, geriatric dentistry, treating advanced cases in the out-patient surgery setting, oncology, diagnosis of oral-facial pain and oral lesions, EENT, and the medically compromised patient.
The second year will be able to refine career goals, demonstrate leadership skills by orientating the new residents smoothly to clinical protocol and procedures, participate in the GPR program administration, refine literature research, provide treatment to the more complex cases, and act as a liaison between the program director and other staff.
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St. Elizabeth Health Center
1044 Belmont Avenue
Youngstown, Ohio 44501
(330) 746-7211
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