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Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's General Practice Dental Residency Program offers an advanced clinical and didactic education.  Designed to focus on the interests and goals of dental residents, our program provides an opportunity for residents to experience hands-on post-graduate studies in a hospital setting.  Residents study at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's nationally recognized hospitals - Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals.

As an accredited member of the American Dental Association, our program is fully approved and governed by the Association's Standards for Advanced Education Programs in General Practice Residency.  This affiliation reinforces the high medical and educational standards on which the program is based.

Residents are a part of the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare team and have access to the facilities and resources of this award-winning healthcare delivery system, including Hospital departments and staff.  Read an overview of our Dental and Oral Healthcare Center services. 

Program overview:

The program is one year in length. Two residents are accepted each year with their residency beginning on July 1st. Orientation begins approximately 1 week prior to July 1st. There is a stipend of approximately $45,280 per year. Medical and dental benefits are provided as well as vacation time. For more detailed information on benefits and a sample of a housestaff training contract, please visit the Northwestern McGaw Medical Center Graduate Medical Education website at http://gme.northwestern.edu. Upon satisfactory completion of the GPR at ENH, residents will receive a certificate from both ENH and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The clinical part of the program is in the outpatient dental center at Evanston Hospital, in the operating rooms at Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals as well as in the emergency room at Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals. The outpatient Dental Center at Evanston Hospital is in operation 5 days per week. The didactic part of the program involves lectures and seminars given by dental and medical attendings on staff at ENH.


Objectives

The resident program focuses on several primary goals to give residents a thorough understanding of dentistry and help prepare them to practice.  After completing the program residents will be competent to:

  • Develop comprehensive treatment plans

  • Implement effective oral-disease prevention programs

  • Recognize necessary dental X-rays

  • Perform preventive and treatment pediatric dentistry

  • Practice restorative dentistry with restorative equipment and advanced adhesive materials

  • Perform pulpal therapy with magnification technology

  • Treat dental trauma and case type I, II and III periodontal disease, including surgery

  • Manage oral medicine and oral pathology

  • Use psychological skills in managing patients with anxiety

  • Provide special care and management to handicapped patients