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The
University of the Pacific School of Dentistry has two sites for its
Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program. The Union City site
is located approximately 35 miles Southeast of San Francisco. The second site is located on the University
of the Pacific Stockton campus in the Thomas J. Long Health Sciences
Building. The
facilities in these sites are described below.
The AEGD program at both sites
are one-year, accredited postgraduate residencies in general dentistry
with an optional second year. The core of the program involves advanced
clinical treatment of patients requiring comprehensive general dental
care. Stockton residents provide comprehensive dental care along with
supplemented seminars and rotations and work
with dental hygiene students in the dental combined hygiene and dental
services community clinic.
There is an
opportunity to gain more in-depth training in an optional accredited
second year residency training program. The second year allows greater
flexibility to pursue individual interests, advanced clinical cases,
teaching, or research projects.
The start date for the program
is July 1, 2008. Residents have time off during the school's Christmas break,
school holidays and 10 days of leave that can be scheduled with the approval of the site
director.
There are no tuition
requirements to participate in either site. First year residents receive
an educational stipend of $25,000 per year which is paid bi-monthly over a
12 month period. In addition, there is an "incentive bonus"
available to residents which is based on clinical production. The
incentive bonus can result in a significant increase in compensation over
the base salary.
Residents are required to
participate in the School of Dentistry mandatory student health and
disability programs. Malpractice insurance is covered by the School of
Dentistry.
For more admission information to the program, please see application
process.
The remainder of this section is divided into the following
sections:
Program Goals
The overall goals of the program in Advanced Education
in General Dentistry will enable the dental residents to do the following by the end of
the year:
- Provide high-quality, comprehensive general dental care for
healthy and medically compromised patients.
- Integrate all phases of dentistry in a manner suitable for
providing dental care to healthy and medically compromised patients.
- Be able to act as the primary dental care provider for a
group of healthy and medically compromised patients and to control and direct the services
of dental specialists and other health practitioners appropriately.
- Interact with a variety of health professionals and social
agencies to coordinate dental services with other care for individuals with complex
medical, emotional, and social backgrounds.
- Function effectively in a hospital setting.
For a detailed list of expected areas of resident
competency after completion of the program, please see our
Competency
and Proficiency Statements.
Physical Facilities
The Union City site is located at the University of the Pacific's Union
City Dental Care Center. The clinic has a private practice setting and is
located 35 miles Southeast of San Francisco. In addition to being close to
San Francisco, Union City is near Yosemite Valley, the Sierra Mountains
and San Jose. The clinic is a state-of-the-art 13-chair facility
which was completed April 2002. Prior to this time, the clinic was an
unaccredited Advanced Clinical Education residency and served the
community for close to 30 years.
The
Stockton site is located at the University of the Pacific Main Campus in
Stockton and located in the Central Valley of California, approximately a
2 hour drive from San Francisco. The
clinic is in the Health Sciences Learning Center, which includes the
Dental Hygiene program as well as the Speech and Pathology clinic.
Clinical Dentistry
The clinical program consists of a variety of
experiences designed to simulate the general practice of dentistry in a group practice
setting. The majority of time is spent treating patients in the AEGD Program clinic under
the supervision of the AEGD faculty. Patients are assigned to residents who are
responsible for treating those patients' dental needs.
There is specialty supervision available in endodontics,
esthetics, implants, orthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, periodontics, and fixed and removable prosthodontics. There is also supervised dental care
for special patients with developmental disabilities or severe medical problems and
geriatric individuals.
In addition to the specialties listed above, there is an
emphasis placed on patient management with specific instruction in working with
fearful dental patients, using nitrous oxide and other sedatives, providing dental care in the
hospital operating room with general anesthesia, and managing patients with oral lesions
and facial pain. Also, residents are given the opportunity to co-instruct and supervise dental students during their clinical rotation in the AEGD clinics.
Residents work with dental staff members in the management
of their practices and the delivery of dental services. Instruction is provided in
four-handed dentistry techniques and practice management concepts.
Rotations
Rotations at the Stockton and Union City sites each feature hospital dentistry experiences in their county hospitals where they work on a variety of patients. The Union City residents spend time in a community clinic treating diverse populations and perform pediatric dentistry. Our Stockton residents are assigned twice a month at a community clinic where preventative, restorative, endodontics and oral surgery procedures are performed on patients who are indigent and un-insured in the Central Valley. Regular patient care will still be scheduled at the clinic and the residents are expect to return to clinic.
Seminars
There are a series of seminars on each aspect of dentistry taught in the program in the
areas of endodontics, esthetics, fixed and removable prosthodontics, hospital dentistry,
implants, operative dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral pathology-facial pain,
multidiscplinary seminar series with orthodontic residents, periodontics and treatment planning. Seminar
topics also include quality assurance, practice management, literature review, dental
emergencies, and medical risk assessment.
During the year, residents may also attend medical
specialty clinics, medical seminars and other hospital sponsored lectures. In addition,
lectures are conducted in the dental school by physicians and dentists in various
specialties. We offer an Implant Restorative Lecture series which a certificate is given at completion. We have also offered Invisalign training and certification.
After-hours Emergencies
After office hours and on weekends, one resident from each site is
assigned to see patients who have dental emergencies. At times when the resident is not in
the dental clinic, he or she can answer calls on a citywide pager. The
resident may also spend time in the hospital emergency room. During that time, the
resident will have an opportunity not only to treat dental emergencies but also to observe
the management of patients with medical emergencies. |
