General Practice Residency
The General Practice Residency Program (GPR) is a graduate program of the Eastman Department of Dentistry (EDD) of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and is based both at Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH) and Highland Hospital (HH).
The mission of the program is to provide service within the realm of total patient care at both Strong Memorial and Highland hospitals, the training of graduate dentists, and clinical research. The GPR Program, recognizing its social responsibility, has as its primary goal, the provision of high quality oral health care.
Program Goals and Objectives
Competencies
Didactic
Courses and Lectures
Rotations
Clinical Assignments and Dental Clinics
Application
Process
Program Goals and Objectives
- 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.
- Plan and provide multidisciplinary oral health care for a wide variety of patients including patients with special needs
- 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.
- Function effectively within the hospital and other health care environments.
- Function effectively within interdisciplinary health care teams.
- 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.
- Utilize the values of professional ethics, lifelong learning, patient centered care, adaptability, and acceptance of cultural diversity in professional practice.
- Understand the oral health needs of communities and engage in community service.
These goals are evaluated during the year at the quarterly evaluation sessions through multiple resident evaluation tools (both of and by the residents) and through an end of year questionnaire administered to the residents. Additionally, periodic surveys of recent graduates will be used to supplement the data collected. These data are reviewed by the program director and faculty and appropriate actions are taken.
Stipend
First Year: $43,452
Second Year: $45,078
Clinical Assignments and Dental Clinics
Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital
The assignments comprise comprehensive clinical care in pediatric dentistry, periodontics, prosthodontics endodontics, orthodontics, and oral surgery. All residents, when not on outside rotations, are assigned to the clinics at SMH and HH. During this time the residents provide comprehensive care to those patients so scheduled. Members of the attending staff are present at all times. Specialist supervision is provided on scheduled days.
Monroe Community Hospital
Each resident will spend approximately three weeks during the year treating patients at MCH, an affiliate of Strong Memorial Hospital, which provides extended care for the handicapped, chronically ill and aged.
Delivering care in the operating room
General Dentistry
Residents will be assigned to assist all members of the attending staff who admit patients for treatment in the operating room under general anesthesia. The general practice resident, under the supervision of the attending staff will perform all those duties mentioned previously related to admission and pre- and post-operative care for these patients.
Oral Surgery
Residents will rotate under the supervision of the oral surgery residents in the admission and care of oral surgery patients and will assist in the operating room. Oral surgery residents are responsible for covering three hospitals; therefore, the large number of oral surgery patients requires that the GP residents participate actively in their treatment.
Pediatric Dentistry
Residents will be assigned to assist all members of the pediatric attending staff who admit patients for treatment in the operating room under general anesthesia. The general practice resident, under the supervision of the attending staff will perform all those duties mentioned previously related to admission and pre- and post-operative care for these patients.
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