Program Goals The General Practice Dental Residency at the University of Virginia Health System offers both a one-year and two-year program designed to allow the practitioner to enhance knowledge and expand clinical skills developed in dental school. The program was established in 1974 and is fully accredited by the American Dental Association. Applicants are selected yearly to fill four positions. The goals of this program are to:
Increase competence and confidence in all areas of general dentistry
Learn to function with hospital and outpatient physicians in a hospital as a member of a health care team
Provide an understanding of the techniques of pain control, and anxiolysis including general anesthesia and sedation
Understand and manage the unique dental problems of medically compromised, economically underserved and handicapped patients
Develop lifetime skills in the scientific application of learning to patient care
1222 Jefferson Park Avenue (second floor) In our main facility next to the hospital, we provide general dental services to both inpatients and outpatients. The dental services provided include restorative dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, prosthodontics(fixed and removable), implants, and minor orthodontics. The patient population includes both private and hospital patients.
Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center
The Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center is a 28 bed facility functioning as a multidisciplinary health center for handicapped and/or mentally compromised children and adolescents. Care is delivered on both an inpatient and ambulatory basis to patients with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, genetic and endocrine disorders, and other inherited or acquired disabilites. The resident also provides dental care to an essentially healthy ambulatory pediatric population and behavior management problem patients. KCRC attending dentists and residents provide dental care utilizing sedation and general anesthesia in the clinic and operating room of the main hospital.
Off-Service Rotations and Didactic Activities
Off-service medical rotations occur in the first year of training. They are Physical Diagnosis, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology and Otolaryngology. Patient rounds and resident conferences occur three times each week. Monday morning conferences emphasize group treatment planning and a review of hospital emergencies, consults and pending operating room cases. Thursday rounds are for case sharing and treatment planning. Friday afternoon conferences generally feature a guest lecturer in one of the specialty fields of dentistry or medicine as it relates to the practice of dentistry. Literature review sessions are conducted regularly.
Residents provide dental coverage to the hospital Emergency Department. This call is provided through use of long-range pagers. In addition, one senior dental resident regularly attends a weekly multidisciplinary Head and Neck Tumor Board to assist treatment planning of cancer patients.
All residents will occasionally provide dental in-service programs to other hospital departments. Second year residents assume leadership functions in the areas of program development and may choose from available elective rotations.
In addition to an annual stipend, the residents receive comprehensive health insurance, malpractice and disability insurance, parking, discounts on prescribed medications and scrub uniform laundry service. Residents receive 20 days of annual leave per year in addition to state holidays and assistance for out of town continuing education.
Salary Schedule 2009-2010
Year
Yearly
PGY I
$49,134
PGY II
$49,823
The Housestaff office has more detailed information on residency benefits.
Faculty of the Department of Dentistry include four general practitioners, and four part time specialists including a periodontist, orthodontics, endodontist and an oral surgeon. Support personnel include eight dental assistants, four hygienists and administrative support staff.
The Department of Dentistry, in coordination with the University of Virginia, School of Medicine is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with University regulations and State and Federal Laws, there is no discrimination on the basis of age, sex, race, color or national origin. Applicants must be graduates of an ADA accredited School of Dentistry or have completed at least one year of an ADA accredited advanced dental education program to qualify for temporary or permanent licensure to practice in our GPR program. Please download a detailed view of the program.
The applicant is required to submit the following (same requirements in PASS):
Dental school transcript
3 letters of recommendation (including 1 from the Dean)
National Board scores Part 1 and Part 2
Student essay
Selection is made on the basis of academic performance, experience and extracurricular activities, recommendation and personal interview. Address further inquiries to:
Brian C. Hoard, DDS
Department of Dentistry
University of Virginia Health System
P.O. Box 800740,
Charlottesville, VA 22908
E-mail: bch3n@virginia.edu
In our main facility next to the hospital, we provide general dental services to both inpatients and outpatients. The dental services provided include restorative dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, prosthodontics(fixed and removable), implants, and minor orthodontics. The patient population includes both private and hospital patients.