The General Practice Dental Residency Program at SBH

Also, because SBH is a trauma center, you’ll have extensive exposure to trauma management. Hospital rotations include:

• Objectives:
• Provide knowledge and clinical experience in physical assessment, airway management, monitoring techniques and the recognition/treatment of anesthetic complications
• Goals:
• Become familiar with operating room protocol and the functioning of operating room personnel
• Become familiar with pre-op preparation
• Learn objective management and post-op care in the operating room
• Learn to:
• Intubate patients
• Perform more thorough physical exams
• Start an IV line
• Understand the basic approaches and mechanics involved in general anesthesia
• You’ll walk away with an understanding of:
• Anesthetic complications
• ASA classification system
• Assessing recovery from anesthesia
• Basic anesthesia techniques, such as endotracheal intubation, venipuncture, mask
  and bag airway
• Common drug interactions and the use of pre-anesthetic medications

• Objectives:
• Provide instruction and clinical experience in medical risk assessment
• Become familiar with diagnosing and treating medical emergencies
• Goals:
• Learn to function as a member of an emergency medical team
• Improve techniques in:
• Management of emergency medical conditions, such as:
• Airway management
• Allergic reaction treatments
• Cardiac problem evaluation
• Hemorrhage control
• Physical diagnosis
• Risk assessment
• You’ll walk away with an understanding of:
• How to interpret common lab studies and radiographs
• How to record and interpret a patient’s medical history
• The medical consultation process
• The use of physical diagnosis

Develop:

• The clinical judgment (outcomes-based, clinical decision-making), technology-based information retrieval, diagnostic ability and clinical skills necessary to provide comprehensive general dentistry
• The ability to manage medically compromised hospital patients in ambulatory and inpatient settings and appropriately interact with and respond to consults from other services and healthcare professionals
• Patient and practice management skills
• Strong ethical, moral and empathetic sensitivities, with an appreciation for the multiple cultures present in our community
• A sense of responsibility through community service
• The ability to evaluate a patient’s total oral health needs, provide a means of entry into the oral healthcare system, provide professional general dental care and refer the patient, when indicated, to appropriate specialists while preserving the continuity of care
• The ability to offer a broad range of dental services and provide patient care to meet the needs of a diverse spectrum of patients, including the elderly, handicapped, medically compromised and those in the hospital
• Knowledge of hospital protocol and procedure through working in the emergency department, operating room, and with physicians and other health professionals
• A multidisciplinary learning environment, where dental residents both learn from and teach colleagues
• The ability to meet the dental needs of underserved areas, which suffer from limited access to specialty services

• A QI project, journal club article and cases, including an implant presentation with discussion on a researched, related topic

Develop:

• The ability to provide more complex and comprehensive quality restorative dental and oral health services for patients, regardless of age and medical condition
• Proficiency on a higher level in an elective area of dentistry, including:
• Endodontics
• Implantology
• Maxillofacial surgery
• Orthodontics
• Pediatric dentistry
• Periodontics
• Practice management
• Sedation
• Teaching, management and leadership skills, through responsibility in relation to first-year dental residents and hospital-wide committees
• More advanced dental literature research, critical review of dental literature, presentation skills and, if selected, research skills
• Further proficiency, if selected, in the use of behavioral methods and administration of pharmacological agents to comprehensively control pain and anxiety

Applications are accepted from those who have graduated from a U.S. or Canadian dental school and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or Canadian citizens. We also consider international applicants outside of Canada.

You must have earned a DDS or DMD from and accredited U.S. or Canadian Dental School.

We also maintain the following eligibility requirements:

• Successful completion of:
• NBDE I and NBDE II
• Submission of:
• CV/resume
• Photocopy or notarized copy of your dental school diploma
• 2×2 photo

Our residency program benefits include:

All conditions of employment, including compensation and benefits, are negotiated with the Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU, which represents all interns, residents and fellows.

7-1-2024 Salary (6%) :

• PGY1 – $76, 343
• PGY2 – $80, 757

7-1-2025 Salary (5%):

• PGY1 – $80, 160
• PGY2 – $84, 795