The department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery offers a 2 to 4 week pre-doctoral externship for dental students or recent graduates to gain in-depth experience in oral and maxillofacial surgery beyond the dental school curriculum. The externship is offered throughout the year but the best time to maximize the clinical experience would be when there are no regular students on scheduled rotation in the OMFS clinic (during the 4 weeks of August, the 2 weeks of December holidays and the week of spring break).
Selection of applicants is based on merit (National Board Scores, OMFS course/clinic grade, previous OMFS externships, research, publications, presentations, etc).There are 2 positions for externs at any given time. More positions may be assigned during certain weeks, at the discretion of the course director.
Applicants are required to send the following documents to:
Course Director OMFS
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
One Kneeland Street
Suite 503
Boston, MA 02111.
- Current CV
- Dental School transcripts
- Proof of malpractice insurance coverage (if the student-applicant is not covered by his or her university or the graduate-applicant is not self-covered for malpractice, then the externship is still possible as an observation experience only [no hands-on]).
- Letter/s of recommendation from the Dean of Student Affairs and/or OMFS course director of the applicant's School of Dental Medicine.
- Letter of intent (up to 200 words) including the preferable dates (weeks) for the externship.
For more information please contact Constantinos Laskarides, D.M.D., Pharm.D, at constantinos.laskarides@tufts.edu