Curriculum
Rotations
Rotations are located at various areas throughout the UCLA health sciences enterprise and cover a broad spectrum of dental specialties.
Hospital dentistry |
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7 months |
UCLA Maxillofacial Prosthetics/Hospital Dentistry Clinic |
Comprehensive patient care is employed in the treatment of medically, physically and psychologically challenged patients. These categories include patients who are undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer and transplant patients. Restorative dentistry with general anesthesia in the operating room is performed weekly. Residents also provide conscious sedations for general dental procedures. Residents are on call on a weekly basis, and provide hospital inpatient consultations and emergency department treatment. |
Oral and maxillofacial surgery |
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1 month |
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center |
Experience will be provided in hospital admissions and medical management of oral and maxillofacial trauma and infections, conscious sedation and outpatient general anesthesia, and basic principles of dento-alveolar surgery, including surgical extraction of impacted third molars and biopsies of soft and hard tissue pathology. |
Anesthesia |
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1 month |
Jules Stein Eye Institute, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center |
Ophthalmologic procedures require similar anesthetics to dentistry, thus this rotation will provide clinically applicable experiences in pre-anesthetic evaluation, patient monitoring, airway management, administration of conscious sedation agents and general anesthetic techniques, post-anesthetic patient recovery, and emergency procedures. |
Pediatric dentistry |
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1 month |
Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles |
Experience is provided in the dental treatment of the toddler and child, including diagnosis and treatment planning, patient management, operative procedures, appliance therapy, and operating room dentistry. |
Medicine |
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1 month |
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center |
Experience is provided in medicine with an emphasis on patient assessment and interventions. Residents also gain experience in assessing a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions along with improvement in physical diagnosis skills. Upon completion, the resident will understand department of medicine protocol. |
Periodontal practice |
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Partial month |
Private practice setting |
This rotation includes seminars on current philosophies regarding diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment modalities. Residents will observe numerous surgical procedures. |
Didactic Training
The didactic portion of this program consists of formal courses and seminars. Topics cover all specialties of dentistry, physical diagnosis, internal medicine, conscious sedation, oral pathology, pharmacology, emergency care, anesthesiology, implantology, advanced cardiac life support, and practice management.