Dental Medicine Residency

Welcome to the Dental General Practice Residency Program

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center's General Practice Residency in Dentistry is an educational program designed to provide clinical, didactic and hospital experience at the postdoctoral level.

A description of the educational experience to be provided:

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center's General Practice Residency in Dentistry is an educational program designed to provide clinical, didactic and hospital experience at the postdoctoral level.

The Department of Dentistry offers a Commission on Dental Accreditation accredited General Practice Residency Program in General Dentistry which has completed more than eighty years of service to the public and to the education of recent dental graduates. It is a unique combination of a large group of dedicated dentists and an institution with a civic responsibility that has developed into one of the most successful hospital-based Dental Programs in the United States.

The Dental Center provides comprehensive dentistry in the specialty and sub-specialty areas. The Department of Dentistry covers the dental specialties with board qualified or board eligible specialists. Patient care and education of a dentist through resident training and continuing education form a program that constitutes a true Medical Center Dentistry Program.

Presently, NBIMC operates an 18-chair Dental Health Center that is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 AM to 5:45 PM and Fridays from 9:00AM-12:30PM. There are 12 PGY-1 Dental Residents and one PGY-2 position. The Center provides multiple phases of dentistry for patients from among the community surrounding the hospital site.

There is also an emergency dental service available through the Emergency Department 24 hours a day, seven days a week with a dental resident on duty and an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon on call.

Overall Program Goals and Objectives:

A list of goals and objectives or competencies for resident training

Prepare the graduate to:

1. Act as a primary care provider for individuals and groups of patients. This includes: providing emergency and multidisciplinary comprehensive oral health care; providing patient focused care that is coordinated by the general practitioner; directing health promotion and disease prevention activities; and using advanced dental treatment modalities.
2. Plan and provide multidisciplinary oral health care for a wide variety of patients including patients with special needs.
3. Manage the delivery of oral health care by applying concepts of patient and practice management and quality improvement that are responsive to a dynamic health care environment.
4. Function effectively within the hospital and other health care environments.
5. Function effectively within interdisciplinary health care teams.
6. Apply scientific principles to learning and oral health care. This includes using critical thinking, evidence or outcomes-based clinical decision-making, and technology-based information retrieval systems.
7. Utilize the values of professional ethics, lifelong learning, patient centered care, adaptability, and acceptance of cultural diversity in professional practice.
8. Understand the oral health needs of communities and engage in community service. community service n.
   1. Services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions

The above are accomplished by specific objectives for each clinical and didactic component of the program, primarily within the context of patient care.

There are planned teaching sessions directed by the members of the attending staff in a structured curriculum. There are over 200 hours of scheduled lectures in the didactic curriculum. Specialty clinic sessions in orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, prosthodontics and oral & maxillofacial surgery are scheduled each week. There are no specialty training programs at the Beth, so our GPR’s do ALL of the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and ALL of the Operating Room General Dentistry treatment procedures.

Residents have rotations in Emergency Medicine, observing and treating patients under the guidance of a physician; Phlebotomy, performing venipuncture; Physical Diagnosis, learning that includes instruction on history and physicals, systems review, how to listen to and evaluate heart and lungs, how to palpate an abdomen and finding a difficult pulse; and Anesthesia, observing and treating patients under the direct supervision of an anesthesiologist.

Digital dental xray sensors are present in every dental operatory. Digital panoramic xray likewise, can be viewed in every operatory.

Dental Attendings, Residents and Auxiliaries often convene in our conference room during clinic sessions to discuss treatment goals.

As Directors of Dentistry and GPR Program Director, we wish to state on behalf of all of the members of the department that residency training is our prime mission.

	Russ S. Bergman, DMD GPR Program Director and Vice Chair, Department of Dentistry
	Barry D. Wagenberg, DMD Director, Dentistry for Educational Affairs
	Robert M. Bagoff, DMD Co-Director, The Chivian Dental Health Center Director Emeritus, Division of Restorative Dentistry

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