Clinical Services
RESIDENCY PROGRAM GOAL
To train dental residents to perform a comprehensive range
of dental services and procedures and for the residents to
learn how to function within a hospital setting, while providing
the care compatible with a private office.
We are dedicated to being people friendly. Our residency program is committed to teaching.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Hospital’s dental care facility functions as a
private practitioners office. It coordinates and provides
care on an on-going basis, assures appropriate consultation
by specialists on staff, and coordinates the medical and dental
aspects of the patient’s dental care. There are daily
lectures, demonstrations,
and seminars. The residents have an additional opportunity
to provide dental care in the hospital Emergency Department,
operating room, longterm geriatric nursing home, and ambulatory
operating room suite.
ABOUT OUR FACILITY
The new center offers nineteen operatories, a dental laboratory, a sterilization area, lecture and conference room, resident on-call room, staff lounge, kitchen, and numerous business offices. We utilize digital radiology, intro-oral cameras and a dental computer system. There is also a complete dental complex in our geriatric nursing home.
CURRICULUM
Advanced training is given in all disciplines within the scope of general practice including: Oral Surgery, Endodontics, Periodontics, Fixed and Removable Prosthetics, Pedodontics, Preventative Dentistry and Implantology. An on-going relationship with an oral surgery program in New York City creates an opportunity for residents to be involved in all cases of facial trauma, from admission, to assisting in the OR, to discharge.
Residents rotate through the Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia for a period of one month and complete similar rotations in Emergency Medicine and Geriatrics. Residents are invited to attend certain conferences in other departments in the Hospital including: Surgery, Radiology, Hematology, Ambulatory Care, and Community Medicine.
On assignment in Medicine, residents participate as equals
with the medical residents in all rounds, conferences, and
seminars. They participate in procedures such as drawing blood
and intubation. Training in Anesthesia includes inhalation
as well as oral and parental techniques of pain control. Anesthesia
training
for dental residents also includes certification in Coronary
Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Advanced Life Support.
A course in physical diagnosis is also provided, as is a monthly evening course in oral pathology and intravenous sedation. Residents are also involved in a weekly diagnosis session and in the insertion and utilization of implants.
Two pedo-OR cases are booked weekly and residents are
expected to treat eight to 12 patients daily.
Jamaica Hospital’s Dental Care Program has an affiliation
with Stony Brook Dental School and New York University College
of Dentistry.
SALARIES AND BENEFITS
New York State Short Term Disability
Coverage under this program provides weekly benefits following the completion of the required period of continuous total disability (seven calendar days.) A house staff officer would receive New York State Disability Benefits of $170 and $80 from VHSBP each week. Payments may continue while you are disabled for a maximum of twenty-six weeks.
Long Term Disability Insurance
The program is administered through the VHSBP. The program provides monthly payments following the completion of the required period of continuous total disability (three months). The amount of monthly income payable to a disabled individual is 66 2/3 percent of basic monthly earnings up to a maximum of $1,500 per month. Payments may continue provided the disability continues for sixty months.
Tax Deferred Annuities
As an employee of a non-profit institution, you may have a
portion of your salary deducted and deposited directly into
one of several tax-deferred annuity programs in which the
hospital participates.
No taxes, except F.I.C.A., would be taken out of these funds.
You also receive the benefit of lower taxes by deferring part
of your gross salary. The funds are subject to taxes upon
withdrawals and may be subject to withdrawal penalties before
age 59 1/2. These funds will earn high interest rates meant
for your retirement or catastrophic needs. It is an excellent
benefit that many employees participate. Additional information
can be obtained from the Human Resources Department.
Additional Benefits
On-Call Quarters
Discounted Parking
Uniforms (free laundry)
Vacation (four weeks per year)
Twelve Paid Sick Days (per year)
Eight Paid Holidays (per year)
Four Personal Days (per year)
Three Educational Days (Senior Residents)
Complete Malpractice Coverage
Full Rx Drug Coverage
Maternity and Paternity Packages
Pre-paid Legal Services
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