Curr&Part
Didactic learning sessions, seminars and patient care conferences
- Weekly seminars and lectures (virtual)
- Monthly patient care conferences (virtual)
- Case presentations & treatment planning
- Literature review sessions
Partner clinics for comprehensive care experiences
- Residents assigned to designated partner clinic or full program year
- No rotations outside of assigned site
- Partner clinics follow program objectives under trained preceptors.
- UWAEGD leadership and preceptors conduct regular evaluations collaboratively
Goals
- Placement: Assigned to one partner site and attend synchronous didactic sessions via virtual platform (zoom).
- Clinical Exposure: Engage in comprehensive, episodic, and emergency care experiences.
- Competency Expectations: Achieve “Competent” level—able to perform independently, beyond predoctoral training.
Comprehensive Care
General dentistry including complex restorative, prosthodontics (fixed, removable), endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, extractions and minor surgical procedures.
Population-Specific Care
Pediatric, geriatric and medically compromised patients.
Specific Focus Areas
Complex treatment planning, emergency/urgent care and implant plannning/placement.
Community Engagement
Service in community health clinics, care for underserved populations and collaboration with public health providers.
Specialty Exposure (Optional)
Interaction with oral surgeons, periodontists, endodontists and pediatric dentists.
- Deliver comprehensive, patient-centered oral health care through a sequenced treatment plan.
- Diagnose and manage dental emergencies, providing appropriate triage processes.
- Collaborate interprofessionally, referring and consulting with other healthcare professionals for dental and adjunctive care.
- Complete restoration of teeth using appropriate dental materials.
- Place restorations and perform techniques to enhance patient aesthetics.
- Manage patients with special needs and anxiety.
- Diagnose and treat TMD, orofacial pain, and occlusal disorders.
- Apply practice management principles: staffing, scheduling, records, quality, infection control, risk, and ethics.
Endodontics
- Diagnose and treat pain of pulpal and/or periradicular origin.
- Perform non-surgical endodontic therapy on single and multi-rooted teeth.
- Manage pre- and post-treatment endodontic complications and emergencies.
Oral surgery
- Perform surgical extraction of impacted teeth.
- Diagnose and manage oral mucosal diseases and perform soft tissue biopsies.
- Diagnose and manage post-surgical complications and/or infections.
- Perform extraction of erupted teeth.
Periodontics
- Diagnose periodontal disease using current diagnostic criteria.
- Provide surgical and non-surgical treatment for periodontal disease.
- Evaluate periodontal treatment outcomes and establish/monitor a periodontal maintenance program.
Prosthodontics
- Diagnose, treatment plan, and treat patients requiring single-unit crowns.
- Diagnose, treatment plan, and treat patients with missing teeth using implant restorations, fixed partial dentures, or removable prostheses.