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Howard University Hospital: General Dentistry Practice Residency Program

by Akane Naka, Project Manager | March 13, 2007

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery rotation (three weeks) enhances the residents' proficiency in physical evaluations, admissions, venipuncture, operating room procedures/patient management and nitrous oxide/intravenous (I-V) sedation.

On-Call rotation to the Emergency Medicine Department is year-long, and each resident is assigned to the Emergency Medicine Department approximately seven (7) times per month. This rotation enhances the residents' proficiency in pre-operative evaluation, medical risk assessments, and the diagnosis and treatment of acute dental/oral and maxillofacial injuries/diseases.

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Postgraduate Programs
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
General Practice Residency
Postgraduate Dental Programs


Introduction

Howard University Hospital, through the College of Dentistry, offers postgraduate programs in the fields of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and General Dentistry. These programs meet the educational requirements recommended for certification by the respective specialty boards. They are designed, also, to fulfill the requirements for postgraduate education in dentistry as proposed by the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association and the American Association of Dental Schools. The level of instruction in courses included in these programs is comparable to that of graduate dental courses. Research orientation, electives, and research opportunities are included. It is anticipated that the instructional phase of the postgraduate programs will dovetail with graduate programs in the College of Medicine and graduate programs which are being developed in the College of Dentistry. Therefore, the emphasis in these programs is on the total educational experience for the resident, in addition to the requisite technical training. Full-time enrollment is required of all residents participating in these programs.

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Postgraduate Program


The program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a 4-year program beginning in July of each year. The program is designed to meet the requirements of the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association, and the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

Synopsis
The advanced specialty program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Howard University Hospital and the College of Dentistry encompasses forty-eight (48) months of full-time study. Each resident will devote a minimum of thirty (30) months to clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery, and twelve (12) of the thirty (30) months will be spent at the senior level of responsibility. All residents are assigned to the medical/surgical services for at least twelve (12) months. Most of the classroom basic sciences courses and the medical/surgical service rotations will be offered in the first twenty-four (24) months of the training program. The didactic phase of the oral and maxillofacial surgery curriculum is distributed over the four-year period of the program. Throughout the entire program, the resident has experiences in advanced clinical and hospital procedures. The four-year residency program in oral and maxillofacial surgery consists of a progressively graded sequence of hospital experiences in this specialty, formal courses, lectures and seminars designed to provide vertical integration of theory and practice at all levels of the program.