Postdoctoral Dental Education

Select a Module Module 01: Professional Life-Long Learning Plan Module 02: Community Asset Mapping Module 03: Multidisciplinary Team Care

Professional Life-Long Learning Plan

Step 1: Develop Learning Objectives

Program Competencies - Year 1

Patient Care: Provide comprehensive interdisciplinary oral health care to pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients relevant to their medical, dental, and psychosocial needs.

• Demonstrate competency in planning and providing multidisciplinary comprehensive oral health care including effective communication with other health care professionals in a variety of settings and in requesting and responding to requests for consultations from physicians and other health care providers.
• Demonstrate competency in the risk assessment, diagnosis, management and treatment of oral and maxillofacial diseases and abnormalities especially in patients with complex medical conditions, including the frail elderly and the developmentally disabled.
• Demonstrate competency in the treatment of dental and medical emergencies.
• Demonstrate competency in promoting oral and systemic health and disease prevention.
• Demonstrate competency in managing oral-facial pain and anxiety in the conscious patient through the use of psychological interventions, behavior modification techniques, local anesthesia, and sedation techniques.
• Demonstrate competency in medical risk assessment and obtaining informed consent. .

General Dentistry: Training in advanced general dentistry procedures.

Demonstrate competency in advanced general dentistry procedures in:

• Restoration of teeth
• Replacement of teeth
• Periodontal therapy
• Endodontic therapy
• Dentoalveolar surgery

Resident Education: Didactic knowledge and skills beyond the predoctoral level. Review and critically assess in both the print and digital media published dental literature to include the areas of ethics, jurisprudence, practice management, quality assurance, and risk management.

• Critically assess published dental literature to acquire and organize information in an effective and systematic manner for assessing self-performance and knowledge, treatment therapies and outcomes, and scientific findings and technologies.
• Demonstrate competency in patient and practice management including continuous quality improvement and an understanding of the financing and organization of oral health care delivery systems.
• Demonstrate the application of ethical principles in patient care, research protocols, and business practice.

Community Service: Provide oral health care to patients especially those with special needs in the community serviced by the Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Demonstrate competency in the delivery of oral health care to patients of diverse cultures and social status and in the advocacy of its access to the community.

Hospital Dentistry: Provide general dental care while functioning effectively within a hospital and operating room environment, and in consultation with physicians, surgeons, and other health care professionals.

Demonstrate competency in providing general dental care while functioning effectively within a hospital and operating room environment, and in consultation with physicians, surgeons, and other health care professionals.

Program Competencies - Year 1

Training in more complex general dentistry procedures and interdisciplinary patient care experiences.

1. Demonstrate competency in providing more complex multidisciplinary comprehensive oral health care.
2. Demonstrate competency in more complex general dentistry procedures.

Develop skills in the management and delivery of oral health care and advocacy for its access to the community. Participate in the administration of the program and in the maintenance of its continuous quality improvement.

1. Demonstrate competency in the delivery of oral health care and advocacy for its access to the community.
2. Participate in the administration and practice management of the program and its continuous quality improvement.

Develop skills in the instruction and supervision of first-year residents and predoctoral dental students.

1. Demonstrate competency in the instruction and supervision of first-year residents and predoctoral dental students.

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