Dental Residency
Ellis Medicine is pleased to sponsor this one-year residency in
general dentistry, which serves as both a productive training
program and a valuable community resource. The collective experience
of its graduates has resulted in the programs widely acknowledged
reputation for clinical and educational excellence.
The Dental Residency program is located at the Ellis Health
Center in Schenectady, NY, formerly St. Clare's Hospital.
The program has been successfully educating future generations of
dentists since 1975.
Types of Services
At the core of the Dental Residency program is the hospitals
Dental Health Center, an outpatient office practice serving a large
underserved population in the Schenectady community. In this
setting, resident dentists maintain a full schedule of patient care
services under the supervision of a dedicated attending staff. The
disciplines covered in this program include general dentistry,
pediatric dentistry, periodontics, endodontics, orthodontics and
oral surgery, as well as a dental implant program. In addition,
residents are assigned to dental and oral surgery cases in the
hospitals operating room affording them the opportunity to become
familiar with admission, treatment and discharge protocols
associated with hospitalized dental patients.
Types of Training
All residents receive extensive department-based training in
patient assessment and diagnosis, comprehensive, multidisciplinary
oral health care, medical risk assessment, pain and anxiety
management, emergency treatment, inpatient care, applied
pharmacology, medical record management, hospital organization and
function, preventive dentistry, restorative dentistry, endodontics,
periodontics, orthodontics, pedodontics, prosthodontics (fixed and
removable) and oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Rotations
Close working relationships in both the Cleft Palate Center and
the Sleep Disorders Center at Ellis Health Center
afford the dental residents first-hand exposure to these special
clinical arenas.
Additional training rotations through the departments of
anesthesia, family practice medicine, pathology, physical therapy,
medical imaging and emergency medicine further enhance the
residents multidisciplinary experiences in the areas of physical
evaluation, patient assessment and modalities of treatment as they
relate to a variety of diseases.
Requirements
Applicants for the general practice Dental Residency must have,
or expect to have, a doctorate in dentistry from an accredited U.S.
or Canadian dental school in order to be eligible for a New York
State limited permit to practice dentistry.
Ellis Hospital participates in the PASS and Postdoctoral Dental
Matching Programs.
How to Apply
Click on the Ellis Medicine Dental Residency application link and
follow the instructions for completing and submitting the form.