University of California, Los Angeles

The UCLA General Practice Residency Program is a demanding postgraduate certificate program with a major emphasis in hospital dentistry. Aimed at providing advanced training for the general dentist, this program is comprised of rotations that enable its residents to practice all facets of dentistry with the added advantage of working comfortably in a hospital setting and providing care for compromised patients.

The General Practice Residency Program motivates its residents to be continuous students and to always strive for quality education and self-improvement. With this in mind, the general objectives of the program are to:

• Provide residents with the necessary didactic and clinical experiences that will enable them to provide emergency and multidisciplinary comprehensive oral healthcare
• Obtain informed consent
• Function effectively within interdisciplinary health care teams, including consultation and referral
• Provide patient-focused care that is coordinated by the general practitioner
• Direct health promotion and disease prevention
• Assess, diagnose, and plan for the provision of multidisciplinary oral health care for a. wide variety of patients including patients with special needs
• Manage the delivery of patient-focused oral health care

Residents gain clinical experience and advanced training in all aspects of general dentistry including operative dentistry, restoration of the edentulous space, periodontics, endodontics, oral surgery, evaluation and treatment of dental emergencies, and pain and anxiety control utilizing behavioral and/or pharmacological techniques.