Welcome

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center 's Department of Dentistry is proud to present this information which describes the mission and vision that our dedicated staff offers to our General Practice Residents (GPRs).

Behind the glass facade of our new facility lies the dynamic formula for our past thirty years of success. Our outstanding staff meets the community's dental health needs by providing the best care to our patients using the most modern and sophisticated equipment available in a state-of-the-art, patient friendly atmosphere.

Our administration is dedicated to teaching and as such we have over sixty highly committed attendings who, on a regular schedule, bring their many years of experience and expertise to assist our residents. We closely monitor each resident with the sole purpose of expanding his or her knowledge in the world of dentistry.

Many of our past residents have proven to be the dental leaders of the future. We are proud of the fact that former residents are now deans of dental schools, presidents of dental societies and organizations, associates and partners in successful practices, lecturers, and private practitioners. We are even more proud that many have chosen to remain members of our department as Attendings.

Graduation from dental school is only the first step in your dental career. By choosing Jamaica Hospital 's Dental Residency Program as your next step, you can be sure that you are on a path to excellence

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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, long-term 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, and numerous 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.