Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) offers an advanced education/residency program in dental public health that consists of three different tracks to meet each applicant’s professional needs/goals:

• One-year fulltime for dentists with a master’s degree in public health (MPH) or equivalent accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH);
• Two-year part-time for dentists with a master’s degree in public health (MPH) or equivalent accredited by CEPH;
• Two-year fulltime program for dentists without an MPH or equivalent degree.  

During the first year of the residency program, students in the two-year fulltime program will primarily be working towards a CEPH-accredited MPH program at the CWRU School of Medicine.  During the second year, residents will primarily be engaged in the dental public health activities at the School of Dental Medicine and will also be completing any pending requirements towards their MPH degree. 

The residency program in dental public health at CWRU is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation without any reporting requirements, and it is administered by an experienced program director and qualified faculty members. The training program will be tailored to meet each individual resident’s career goals and will include didactic curriculum and practical/field experiences in: 1) research, 2) public health administration, and/or 3) teaching.  Didactic component of the residency program encompasses the American Board of Dental Public Health's competencies and includes concepts such as oral epidemiology, population health, research methods, oral health literacy, etc.  The primary training site is the CWRU-School of Dental Medicine located in the new Health Education Campus: http://hec.case.edu

The city of Cleveland is an excellent location for health care and training of health care professionals with the main contributors to these endeavors being: Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, and MetroHealth.  The Department of Community Dentistry’s faculty members have expertise in dental public health, epidemiology, health services research, etc. Residents will have access to and be able to participate in numerous research and learning opportunities available at CWRU, the premier research institution in Northeast Ohio.  The department administers an excellent service learning program to the dental students, Healthy Smiles Sealant (HSS) Program. Dental public health residents will have the unique opportunity to participate in different experiential learning programs/Cornerstone Experiences (ACE) such as HSS.  The ACE for the senior dental students is a geriatric dentistry rotation in a mobile dental van.  The dental public health residency program has excellent collaborations with the component schools/departments/centers at CWRU, particularly with the School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health and Quantitative Health Sciences as well as the Prevention Research Center.

National Dental Board Examination/Integrated National Dental Board Examination scores are required for ALL applicants.

Applicants to the two-year full-time program must submit an ADDITIONAL application for the master's program in public health  (MPH); information about which can be found at:

https://case.edu/medicine/pqhs/education/public-health

Applications to the MPH program must be submitted through the Case Western Reserve University graduate education portal: https://applygrad.case.edu/apply/

Once an applicant has created an account, s/he should select the School of Medicine and MPH program options. 

• At which point, applicant will see a few dual degree options.  
• Dental public health residency applicants must choose  the 'DPH' option.  

For additional informaion, please visit:

https://case.edu/dental/departments-programs/community-dentistry/dental-public-health-residency-program/how-to-apply-for-dental-public-health-residency