Program Overview

Our five residency training programs each offer comprehensive real-world
learning opportunities that you’ll only get from LMC Dental—the largest program
of its kind. Under the supervision and mentoring of our 525 full and part time
highly renowned faculty members, you’ll gain valuable hands-on experience
while treating as many as 1,500 medically compromised and complex cases each
year. When you complete your residency in one of the following programs, you
will never be more prepared to launch and manage your own or group dental
practice.

AEGD

 

 

Endodontics

 

 

Anestheslolgy

 

 

 

GPR

 

 

 

Pediatrics

 

 

Periodontics

 

Accreditations

Since LMC Dental is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of
the American Dental Association, you can be confident that you’ll be learning
from a proven institution that maintains the highest academic standards.

Our accredited Postdoctoral General Dentistry Programs include:

• Advanced Education Program in General Dentistry
• General Practice Residency

Our accredited advanced Specialty Education Programs include:

• Endodontics
• Pediatric Dentistry
• Dental Anesthesiology

Externships – AEGD, GPR and Pediatrics

LMC Dental participates in externship programs with several dental schools.

Externships enable dental school students to gain hands-on patient care
experience and/or hospital experience in our clinical training sites. These short-
term rotations give applicants first-hand insight into our programs and the range
of opportunities available to our residents.

Eligible dental students must be enrolled in an ADA-Accredited Dental School
that has an affiliation agreement with LMC Dental. Requests to develop an
externship program with a dental school must be reviewed and approved by the
Graduate Dental Education Director.

LMC Dental has formal externship affiliations for students at:

• New York University
• Columbia University
• University of Pennsylvania
• State University of New York at Buffalo
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• Tufts University
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Medical College of Georgia
• University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey (UMDNJ)
• University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
• University of Puerto Rico

Students from other dental schools can arrange visits independently with us by
contacting the program. Please contact program-specific dental directors for
further information.

Faculty & Staff

To view a complete list of our faculty and staff, please click here.

Virtual Classroom

Learn globally while working locally.

Our distance-learning curriculum links all of the LMC Dental clinics around the
globe together for simultaneous didactic learning and collaboration. In addition,
LMC Dental has implemented asynchronous web-based Sakai technology
allowing residents to have access to lectures any time of day or night. Residents
are required to complete a minimum of 200-hours of standardized didactic
coursework on a weekly basis. Online forums are utilized for literature review
and educational discussions of dental disciplines. This assures educational equity
across clinical training sites and throughout the programs.

Always at the forefront of distance learning, LMC Dental seamlessly integrated
remote and participatory education into our core curriculum over ten years
ago. In 2003, we expanded the distance learning curriculum via live video
teleconferencing to include the pediatric dentistry curriculum. Compressed video
conferencing allows residents to participate weekly in a shared academic program
in a “virtual classroom”—whether they are in New York City, the Hudson River
Valley, Tucson, Providence, or Honolulu.

To combine resources and apply new technologies to strengthen our respective
residency programs, LMC Dental formed a partnership with the schools
of dentistry at Columbia University and the University of the Pacific. Our
collaborations continue to place our educational programs on the cutting edge of
graduate dental education.

To that end, in 2010, LMC Dental introduced its newest didactic learning
experience using an asynchronous web-based technology, Sakai. Sakai, a robust
system supporting over 4 million educational users to enhance collaborative
teaching, learning and research, provides the residents with access to lectures
24/7. Residents can, whenever needed, self-engage in learning and re-learning
concepts. Both VTC and Sakai educational technologies work together to impart a
full-range of didactic knowledge to our residents.
By participating in our virtual classroom community, our programs will prepare
you when you graduate to use contemporary communication and business
technology in daily office operations and continuing education.

Core Curriculum

General Practice Residency (GPR) or Advanced Education in General
Dentistry (AEGD) residents participate in our core curriculum. The academic
curriculum focuses on pediatric dentistry, geriatric dentistry, special care patients,
and materials science.

Residents will learn:

• Comprehensive training in general dentistry; practice-based and hospital-
  based
• The newest information in implant dentistry and experience placing implants
• Current concepts in esthetic dentistry, pain control and sedation, orthodontics,
  preventive dentistry, endodontics, anesthesia, periodontics, prosthetics and
  medical emergencies in dental practice
• The principles of dental practice management and practice administration in
  daily practice including the principles of the psychodynamics of dental care,
  managing decisions and choices of care, quality management, and ethics.
• Highly developed diagnostic and treatment skills.

In the GPR program, there are also required minimum clinical rotations in
endodontics, geriatrics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, prosthetics, oral and
maxillofacial surgery, oral medicine, and orthodontics.

All first-year residents (and second-year residents who did not study at
LMC Dental during their first year) take a five-hour introductory methods and
materials in research course.

This class covers such topics as:

• Basic dental informatics and on-line searches
• Evidence-based dentistry
• Evaluation of patient outcomes
• Critical evaluation of the literature

First-year pediatric and first-year endodontic residents take part in relevant
academic elements of the core curriculum. This aspect of the educational program
provides concentrated advanced training in treatment planning, oral medicine,
oral pathology, endodontics, periodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Our core curriculum also includes asynchronous online literature reviews in
endodontics, prosthodontics, and sedation and pain control.

Pediatric and endodontic dental residents (and all second-year general
dentistry residents) attend a more in-depth course in methods and materials for
research.

This covers:

• Epidemiology and research methods
• Statistics
• Data analysis and practical research design
• Writing a biomedical paper
• Writing a research proposal
• Presenting papers at scientific meetings
• Submitting a paper for publication
• Troubleshooting research problems

These residents, together with medical residents, complete a research project
under the continuing guidance of the Office of Clinical Research and present
their findings at Lutheran’s Annual Research Fair. Interested first-year general
dentistry residents may voluntarily participate in a research project.

LMC Dental residents participate in journal clubs to keep abreast of current
research and learn to use an evidence-based approach to critical reviews of the
dental literature. Residents learn to integrate research into daily practice and lay
the foundation for a lifetime dedicated to providing scientifically based oral health
care.