NYU Langone Dental Medicine - Denton, MD

This innovative program is a hybrid blend of a strong distance learning didactic curriculum and extensive clinical experience. Distance-based didactic learning is achieved through asynchronous web-based education modules and a state-of-the-art video teleconference system that connects residents and faculty across all sites. With ample clinical exposure to pediatric medicine, conscious sedation and general anesthesia, graduates are trained to be an integral part of the medical team and hospital environment. Additional experience in hospital dentistry, craniofacial conditions, interceptive orthodontics, research, ethics and policy advocacy successfully prepares the graduate to pursue a career in private practice, public/community health or academia.

PEDS Curriculum: In Year 1, residents study most of the core curriculum, completing biomedical courses including oral biology, pediatric anesthesia, physical diagnosis, behavioral management, pediatric dentistry series, orthodontics, craniofacial development, and research methods and materials. Residents in NY attend monthly craniofacial conferences in their second year. Courses, electives, and requirements include core public health subjects. First-year residents also are assigned multiple rotations including pediatric medicine, general anesthesia, emergency medicine, and on-call services.

In the second year, the curriculum is focused on children with complex medical conditions. Second-year residents may be assigned with pediatric specialists to work in areas such as hematology, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, pulmonology, nephrology, cardiology, and immunology. Residents may rotate through nearby community health centers, Head Start/early child care centers or school-based programs to extend direct patient care to underserved children in the community.

NYU Langone Dental Medicine- Denton, MD:

The NYU Langone Advanced Education in Pediatric Dentistry program’s Denton, MD site operates within Choptank Community Health System (CCHS), a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot Counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.  This is the program’s second location on the Eastern Shore of MD. 

For over 40 years, Choptank Health has been dedicated to providing exceptional, comprehensive, and integrated healthcare—including medical, dental, and behavioral health services—to all residents in the region. Residents rotate through multiple locations throughout the Eastern Shore, gaining broad clinical experience.

CCHS dental sites are equipped with advanced technology, including digital x-rays, intraoral cameras, Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT), nitrous oxide, and oral conscious sedation. In collaboration with local hospitals in Dorchester and Kent Counties, the program operates a hospital-based operating room, offering comprehensive dental treatment under general anesthesia for pediatric patients.

Residents rotate through emergency and pediatric medicine and participate in craniofacial team meetings. They provide vital dental care to an underserved pediatric population and engage in interceptive orthodontics under orthodontic supervision. Residents collaborate with Advanced Education in General Dentistry residents and an endodontist, enhancing their multidisciplinary training.

Graduates leave the program as confident, proficient pediatric dentists, well-prepared to deliver comprehensive care to children in diverse and underserved communities.

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Strengths: American Board of Pediatric Dentistry (ABPD) Outcomes: Second year residents are required to take the ABPD Qualifying Examination (QE), the first of a two-part ABPD certification process. Over 90% of NYU Langone PEDS residents pass the QE (national average 85%). More than 70% of graduates become board-certified diplomates of the ABPD (national average 65%).

Research: Residents must complete a research project and, in Year 2, present their research posters at the annual AAPD meeting. The best research projects are also presented at the annual Research Fair in Brooklyn, NY.

Residents also are provided the opportunity to network with other programs.  Residents collaborate with NYU faculty and residents for literature review, OR cases, and teaching rotations.  Residents attend Craniofacial Team meetings and lectures at both NYU Langone Manhattan campus and Columbia University.  Residents of this site are exposed to board-certified faculty with varied backgrounds in private practice, public health, and education.  Residents participate in a hospital research fair in which all departments, including PGY2 pediatric dental residents, present posters.  Residents also participate in local seminars, lectures and case presentations. 

Please upload a CV with your ADEA PASS application. 

The ADAT is not a requirement for application. If you take the ADAT we will consider your scores, but it is not a requirement for the Program.

If accepted, you must submit your dental school diploma and proof of passing NBDE or INDBE scores to the program.

Please refrain from contacting the program to verify your eligibility to apply or to check the status of your PASS application.