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Cleveland Clinic General Practice Residency

Thank you for your interest in the General Practice Residency at the Cleveland Clinic. Resident education is an integral component of the mission of Cleveland Clinic and the Section of Dentistry. The GPR is a one year experience in hospital dentistry during which residents treat a diverse patient population with wide ranging dental and medical needs. We currently accept 3 residents to each class.

We have developed a well-rounded program that provides varied clinical experiences to hone and expand the skills and knowledge learned during dental school. The clinical program is supported by a robust academic curriculum.

Educational Objectives

1. Train the resident to 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. 
2. Plan and provide multidisciplinary oral health care for a wide variety of patients including patients with special needs.
3. Offer experiences to allow the resident to advance his or her clinical skill levels in the areas of patient assessment and diagnosis, treatment planning, dental and medical emergencies, pain control, operative dentistry, periodontal therapy, exodontia, and fixed and removable prosthodontics.
4. Function effectively within the interdisciplinary health care teams in the hospital environment.
5. Apply scientific principles to learning and oral health care, including the use of critical thinking, evidence or outcomes-based clinical decision-making and technology-based information retrieval systems.
6. Utilize the values of professional ethics, lifelong learning, patient centered care, adaptability, and acceptance of cultural diversity in professional practice.
7. Understand the oral health needs of communities and engage in community service.

Curriculum

The program curriculum is designed to train residents to provide comprehensive dental care with a multidisciplinary approach. Rotations outside of dentistry make up approximately five weeks of the year:

• Anesthesia (two weeks)
• Emergency Medicine (two weeks)
• Pre-operative history and physical (one week)

The remainder of the year is spent in the dental clinic treating patients including well patients for general dental care, medically complex hospital inpatients and outpatients (i.e. cardiac, head and neck cancer, organ transplant), and special needs adults and children in the operating room. Throughout the year, residents work closely with general dentists and specialists. In addition, time during the year is specifically dedicated to rotations and observations in:

• Oral surgery
• Periodontics
• Endodontics
• Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
• Maxillofacial Prosthodontics
• Sleep Dentistry

The didactic portion of the program includes lectures, journal clubs, literature reviews, and case presentations. Each resident develops and to presents a table clinic in the fall (presented at the ODA meeting) and a second in the spring which is presented at a local Grand Rounds.

On-Call

Residents provide on-call service to the hospital during night and weekend hours on a rotating basis which is determined by the residents at the beginning of each year. Call can be taken from home provided the resident can reach the hospital within 30 minutes.

Training at Cleveland Clinic

For more information about training at the Cleveland Clinic, please visit Graduate Medical Education at https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/graduate-medical-education

Main Campus Tour

Please use the link below for a tour of our Main Campus:

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