Dental Medicine Residency

Welcome to the General Practice Residency (GPR) in Dentistry at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

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:

The GPR Program provides, in its 17 chair Chivian Dental Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, is a general dentistry program that provides a comprehensive clinical experience including the specialty areas of dentistry.

The Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Department of Dentistry attendings include board qualified or board eligible specialists. As a general dentistry program there are no specialty training programs. Therefore, rather than refer cases to a specialist (Endodontist, Oral Surgeon, Pediatric Dentist, Periodontist, etc.) our GPR’s treat their patients in the Chivian Dental Center under the direct supervision of our attendings. In addition, residents provide care for pediatric patients and patient with special needs in the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center surgical suite (Operating Room). Patient care and education of a dentist through resident training and continuing education form a program that constitutes a true Medical Center Dentistry Program.

The goal for our 13 residents is to provide a quality General Practice Residency with an emphasis on improving their clinical dental skills and expanding their knowledge of how to treat all kinds of patients. In this residency, time is spent practicing dentistry. We provide opportunities for learning and expanding skills while allowing a resident to gain confidence in a supportive atmosphere conducive to learning.

Highlights Include

Attending Staff

Our faculty is comprised of over 60 practicing dentists who volunteer their time to the Chivian Dental Center as teachers and mentors to the dental program. Many of our attendings have national reputations. Most practitioners work near Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and are available for consultations to discuss cases in addition to their scheduled time teaching in the Residency. Many attendings are former residents whose relationship with the GPR program continues for all their professional life, and they are both supportive and enthusiastic about the program and turning out competent practitioners.

Restorative Dentistry

A busy and varied schedule of patients will enable each resident to gain experience using many different techniques, aesthetic procedures and materials. Our residents provide care in all areas of dentistry giving the resident a diverse experience. Our restorative faculty brings the success of their private practices to our residents in their lectures and when teaching.

Endodontics

Rotary Endodontics is taught as part of a resident’s comprehensive experience. Residents may care for their endodontic patients with our endodontic faculty who assist the residents every Thursday morning. Rotary Endodontics is taught as well as warm vertical condensation.

Pediatric Dentistry

Every Monday afternoon our Pediatric Dentistry faculty are here to work with our residents. Each resident will treat pediatric patients in the Chivian Dental Center and the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Operating Room. Our residents can expect to treat children of all ages, providing care that includes treatment planning, behavioral management, pulpotomies and stainless-steel crowns.

Oral Surgery

Our residents provide care in the operating room and outpatient facility that includes, but is not limited to, extractions, biopsies, pre-prosthetic surgery, trauma, as well as learning techniques to remove 3rd molars. We have over 250 consultations per year with most coming from our Cardiothoracic Surgery Department.

Prosthetics

Our faculty helps the residents with their difficult cases. Each resident has the opportunity to complete removable prosthetic cases, single crowns and fixed partial dentures. Residents find that the number of crown and bridge cases they are able to complete is a highlight of the program.

Periodontics

Each resident completes periodontal surgeries during the year under the direct supervision of our attending periodontists. These include but are not limited to crown lengthening procedures, bone grafts, soft tissue grafts, and implant placement.

Implants

We have a comprehensive implant program that includes seminars, full day lectures, and case presentations. Residents will have the opportunity to place and restore implants during their residency year. A grant from Nobel Biocare provides funding, at no cost for the patient, for implant retained overdenture cases. Grants from Keystone and Neoss Implant Companies help to provide our patients with heavily discounted implants.

Orthodontics

The residents, with guidance from staff orthodontists, have the opportunity to treat patients with bracket/wire orthodontics as well as removeable appliances and space maintainers to correct minor cross bites and malocclusions.

Didactic Program

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 which serve to broaden the educational aspect of the program

Treatment Planning

Skills are developed through case presentations, clinical experiences and the didactic program mentioned above. Key foundational skills are further enhanced in individualized treatment planning sessions with the attending staff.

Overall Program Goals and Objectives

A list of goals and objectives or competencies for resident training.

The program will 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 defined as:
    Services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions

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

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For Applicants

As Directors of Dentistry and the GPR Program, we wish to state on behalf of all of the members of the department that residency training is our prime mission and we have built a community of trained professionals; many of whom retain their relationship with Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

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Rutgers Health

Residency and fellowship programs training at RWJBarnabas Health benefit from the resources and interprofessional opportunities available through the Rutgers Health institutional sponsorship. Learn more about all of the Rutgers Health sponsored graduate medical education programs on our sponsoring institution webpage.