Dental Residency Program (GPR)

Dental Residency Program (GPR): Postdoctoral Dental Education

There are ten positions available in the General Practice Residency Program. This program is hospital based at the University of Utah Hospital. Annual salary for 2011-2012 is set at $50,035 plus benefits. Benefits include life insurance, disability insurance, health insurance, and 15 working days of paid leave. The residents are appointed to the hospital house staff.
The General Practice Residency Program is accredited by the American Dental Association.

Program Information

The purpose of the postdoctoral program is to provide a year of advanced clinical dental education with practical practice opportunities in a large modern hospital. The training program draws on all resources of the hospital and the residents receive training in

• anesthesiology
• general medicine
• geriatrics
• ear, nose and throat
• and the dental specialties of
  • oral surgery
  • implants
  • periodontology
  • endodontics
  • pedodontics
  • fixed and removable prosthetics
  • restorative dentistry
  • oral diagnosis and general dentistry, including working with auxiliaries

All instruction is supervised by dental faculty and medical staff members of the School of Medicine and the University Hospital. An opportunity exists for the residents to have further experiences in various hospital clinics, dental research, or clinical dentistry.

• Seminar participation and formal case reports are required of the residents.
• The resident takes primary "on call" every ten weeks and secondary "on call" every ten weeks, and must remain in contact with the hospital.
• Rotations at the Community Health Center dental office (a low income sliding fee clinic) located off-site in Salt Lake City, and at the Greenwood Dental Clinic, are part of the residency year as well as a one month rotation at the Montezuma Creek Dental Clinic in the Southeastern Utah. One month rotations in Anesthesia and a two week rotation on ENT Oncology are also part of the program.
• Residents will have opportunities to place implants and experience rotary endodontics.
• I.V. sedation certification will be available to all residents.

University of Utah Health Sciences Center

The University of Utah Health Sciences Center is a tertiary care facility serving a six state Intermountain region. The Center is composed of the University Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Hospital and Institute, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy. The School of Medicine is the host facility for the University of Utah Postdoctoral Dental Education Program and a large medical library serves the Center. The University Hospital is a 395 bed hospital where over 339,000 patients are treated as inpatients or outpatients yearly. A five operatory dental clinic, with support lab, office space and seminar rooms, is an integral part of the ambulatory care unit of this facility.