Further Your General Practice Training
Build the experience you need to become the dentist you want to be. In the General Practice Residency (GPR) Program, you will gain broad clinical and educational experience while working with faculty each trimester to personalize your training around your goals. Pursue your interests in dentistry and medicine, strengthen the areas where you want to grow, and develop the skills, experience, and confidence to take the next step in your career.
Program Goals and Objectives
The goals and objectives of the TUSDM’s GPR prepare graduates to become an important part of the communities they choose to serve. Emphasized goals prepare practitioners to
- Act as a primary care provider for individuals and for groups of patients
- Apply their exposure to advanced dental treatment modalities to the practice of dentistry
- Have a working knowledge of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and physical disabilities and the impact these conditions have on the provision of comprehensive dental care
- Function effectively within the hospital and other health care environments
- Function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team
- Provide emergency oral health care
- Promote disease prevention and oral health promotion for patients in the clinical environment, as well as the community
- Manage the delivery of oral health care by applying concepts of patient and practice management
- Understand the fundamentals of quality care and the concept of quality assurance
- Apply scientific principles to learning and oral health care
- Utilize the values of professional ethics, patient’s rights, lifelong learning, patient-centered care, adaptability, and acceptance of cultural diversity in professional practice
Clinical rotations provide residents with diverse experiences across community, dental school, and hospital settings.
An extensive academic program is conducted throughout the year, including continuing education courses, weekly patient care conferences with guest lectures, and seminars on current issues in dentistry and medicine. Emphasis is placed on ideal, alternative, and actual treatment planning via case presentations for both dental and medical management for all patient populations. Research projects are completed by each resident for presentation at the annual TUSDM Bates-Andrews Research Day.
Residents will work with many nationally and internationally recognized faculty members at TUSDM and at Tufts Special Care Dental Clinics. The program’s faculty members come from diverse dental and postdoctoral training backgrounds from around the world. In addition, their combined experience in the private sector provides residents with a solid foundation for practice management upon completion of the program.
Associated Clinics: Advanced General Dentistry Clinic, Tufts Special Care Dental Clinics
Training includes care for patients with complex and special needs, restorative dentistry, emergency and hospital dentistry, anesthesia, and operating room cases. Specialty rotations and seminars provide advanced training in areas including sedation, periodontal surgery, endodontics, oral surgery, temporomandibular disorders, and implantology.
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Financing Your Education
Stipends
The program pays stipends to students, which varies each year.