General Practice Residency: Rotations

Required Rotations

Anesthesiology
Each resident will be assigned to the Anesthesiology Department at SMH full-time for a period of two weeks.

Emergency Department
All general dental residents will spend a two-week period on rotation in the Emergency Department at SMH. The resident will be present from 8:00 AM until 6:00 PM. The resident will spend time with the Internal Medicine residents and the Emergency Department attendings, helping and observing the delivery of emergency care.

Consultations (Throughout the year)
Consultation requests from all departments of the hospital are increasing in number. Currently up to 10-15 consultations at SMH are received by the dental services per week. The resident is exposed to patients with a broad range of medical and emotional problems on the consultation service and works closely with other health professionals.

Oral Surgery (5 - 7 weeks)
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry offers a fully accredited Advanced Training Program in Oral Surgery. The close cooperative working arrangement between the oral surgery and general practice programs affords the GP resident extensive oral surgical experience.

Elective Rotations

Salivary Dysfunction Center (Fridays for 1.5 months)
The broad goal of this rotation is to expose students to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with salivary dysfunction. Students will develop a greater understanding and expertise in the management of these patients, and also be exposed to the research programs that are ongoing in this population.

Oral Pathology and Medicine (Individually arranged)
This rotation is designed to give students experience in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients with clinical manifestations of oral disease and pathology. Emphasis will be placed on a method-of-thought approach to clinical diagnosis and the formulation of a differential diagnosis.

Graduate Degree Programs
The two-year General Practice Residency Program can be combined with various research-training grants and/or the ability to receive a Masters of Science or Public Health.

Research
There are many research opportunities through the Eastman Department of Dentistry and the University of Rochester. Research activities can be combined with Graduate Degree Programs, Grants, or simply as an additional residency experience. We encourage all of our residents to have some research activities; however, the two-year program lends itself to a fuller research experience.