Dental Residency Program - Brochure and Application

Didactic Program

1. Physical Evaluation:

The resident will receive hands-on training in doing physical exams in The Principles of Clinical Medicine class, taken with the freshmen medical students at OHSU. The resident also gets follow-up practical experience by performing physical examinations on selected inpatients.

2. Literature Review:

Residents abstract and report on classic and current literature dealing with assigned topics. It is held with the OHSU Hospital Dental Service staff.

3. VA Dental Seminars:

Specialist consultants are scheduled for didactic seminars with residents and to provide assistance with more difficult clinical cases. All disciplines except pedodontics and orthodontics are represented.

4. Advanced Anesthesia and Pain Control:

Multidisciplinary intensive didactic course in anesthesia and pain control designed to compliment the resident’s clinical experience in intravenous sedation technique.

5. Continuing Education Courses:

The resident is allowed and encouraged to enroll in continuing education courses offered by the Continuing Education Department at the OHSU School of Dentistry. Residents may attend on a space available basis at a reduced fee, paid by the resident. The fee will not be paid by the VA. Each resident may use a limited number of regular duty days (Monday through Friday) during the year for this purpose without charge to annual leave, granted at the convenience of the Dental Service. Any days in excess of 6 days of continuing education will be charged to annual leave.

6. Advanced Cardiac Life Support:

Successful completion of this course will result in certification in ACLS.

7. Patient Care Conferences:

Formal patient care conference is held every other week for discussion of diagnostic problems, treatment planning, case presentations, and review and follow-up of complications.

8. Resident Presentations:

Each resident will do a presentation on a dental or medical topic of his or her choice.
Residents will be trained to use PowerPoint for slides.