Applications
Our residency program participates in the American Dental Education Association's Postdoctoral Application Support Service (PASS).
You must request that letters of recommendation in support of your application be submitted by three members of the faculty of your dental school. We prefer that the faculty letters of recommendation be from full time faculty in three separate departments. All letters of recommendation should be submitted through PASS.
The PASS application deadline is October 20, 2008. Selected applicants will be interviewed in November.
Our General Practice Residency program does not participate in the Postdoctoral Dental Matching Program administered by National Matching Services.
General Practice Residency
This residency provides the training that Dentists need to treat patients with medical, physical or psychiatric disabilities. The residency offers advanced comprehensive clinical dentistry. The residency begins on July 1st and ends the following year on June 30th. The program consists of advanced clinical dentistry including preventative, periodontal, operative, fixed and removable prosthodontics, endodontics, implants and general oral surgery procedures.
The dental attendings and consultants are available at all times. We have 5 FT general dentists, 2 FT prosthodontists, 1 FT periodontist, 1 PT endodontist, 1 FT oral surgeon, and 1 FT oral pathologist. During the residency program, each resident will be assigned to a mentor (an attending) for the year. We also have 2 FT dental hygienists and 2 FT lab technicians on staff.
Salary and Benefits
Salary is $45,500 per year.
Health benefits and life insurance are available.
Malpractice liability coverage is provided for you.
GPR Program Highlights
The clinic offers a wide range of supplies and the latest techniques in dentistry. Assistants are assigned to residents throughout the year to provide experience in four-handed dentistry. There is an extensive, part-time to full-time staff in all the dental specialties which allow residents to tackle new and difficult treatment procedures such as implant placement/restoration, full-mouth rehabilitation, dealing with medically compromised patients, diagnosis, and continuation of simple to complex cases in all dental disciplines.
The residency program is divided into one week in Periodontics, eight weeks in Oral Diagnosis/Emergency Care, two weeks in Medicine (primary care), two weeks in Anesthesiology, and one month in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Washington Hospital Center. The balance of the twelve-month program is spent in the General Practice Clinic where the residents provide comprehensive Restorative, Preventive, Periodontic, Endodontic, Fixed and Removable Prosthodontic, and Oral Diagnostic services.
While on the Anesthesiology rotation, the residents learn the indications and contraindications for use of general anesthesia; learn to evaluate a patient's ability to undergo general or regional anesthesia; learn to start and maintain IVs, monitor vital signs, and maintain an airway; gain a greater understanding of pharmacology and physiology; and acquire an understanding of the general methodology of general anesthesia and the implications of the use of general anesthesia. The residents actively participate in all phases of anesthesia.
The General Practice Residents are assigned to Medicine after successfully completing a physical evaluation course. The residents gain experience using the techniques of physical evaluation; gain experience recognizing the presence of selected organic disease, which may affect the management of oral and dental problems; gain awareness of the influence of systemic disease on oral health; and observe the diagnosis and management of systemic disease.
The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery rotation consists of evaluation and treatment of patients in the outpatient clinic; participating in the admission, management, and discharge of inpatients and patients scheduled for IV sedation; and accompanying the OMFS staff and residents to the Operating Room. Through this experience the residents develop increased ability in simple exodontia, surgical extractions, biopsy, minor pre-prosthetic surgery, treatment of pain and infection, management of dentoalveolar trauma, and operating room protocols and procedures.
Contact Information
Tricia Adelsberger, DDS
Director, General Practice Residency
Washington, DC VA Medical Center
202-745-8000 X 7848
PAdelsberger@va.gov
This agency is an equal opportunity employer. Actions to fill the residency positions will not be based on discriminating factors, which are prohibited by law. Applicants are assured of equal consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual preference, national origin, politics, physical or mental disability, marital status, age, membership in an employee organization, or any other non-merit reason.