Dean: Elsbeth Kalenderian, D.D.S., MPH, Ph.D.
Program Director: Jeffrey Zeller, D.D.S.
School of Dentistry website
Degree Offered
Certificate
Program Overview
The School of Dentistry offers the general practice dental residency (GPDR) certificate program. The comprehensive curriculum covers advanced aspects of general dentistry, including but not limited to restorative dentistry, oral surgery, endodontics, periodontics, and management of medically complex patients. The program integrates clinical practice with academic learning. Additionally, it incorporates interprofessional education, enabling residents to collaborate with healthcare professionals from other disciplines in a hospital setting.
The establishment of the dentistry residency program with a hospital-based component and an educational and clinical component at Marquette University School of Dentistry's Main Campus Clinic has multiple benefits. The hospital and the dental school can work in concert together to maximize the benefit in meeting Wisconsin citizens oral care needs while expanding the number of oral healthcare providers who have experience with medically complex and special needs patients in a variety of practice settings to create a dental workforce pipeline for Wisconsin hospitals and other settings throughout the state.
The General Practice Dental Residency certificate (GPDR-CER) offers a comprehensive curriculum covering advanced aspects of general dentistry. The program integrates clinical practice with didactic learning and enables residents to collaborate with healthcare professionals from various medical disciplines in a hospital setting.
Program Requirements
Didactic Requirements
First year students complete three satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U), seminar-style courses each worth six credits. At the conclusion of the three-course seminar series, residents are prepared to apply didactic knowledge to advanced cases beyond the scope of predoctoral training involving patients with complex medical histories. Residents gain exposure to advanced, postdoctoral level topics in multidisciplinary areas to include:
- Operative Dentistry
- Endodontics
- Prosthodontics
- Oral Surgery
- Periodontics
- Practice Management
- Jurisprudence and Ethics
- TMD/OFP
- Dental and Medical Emergency
- Pain and Anxiety
- Periodontics
- Treatment Planning
- Medical Topics
Second year residents customize their didactic instruction based on individualized personal and professional interests. Residents choose three, one-credit courses each term (fall, spring and summer) from Marquette University School of Dentistry (MUSOD) graduate core course offerings.
Clinical Requirements
The program integrates clinical practice as a co-requisite to didactic seminars. First year residents spend six months providing comprehensive dental patient care at MUSOD clinics including the GPDR Clinic, Pediatrics and the Delta Dental Urgent and Special Care Clinic. They spend an additional three months in Oral Surgery at MUSOD.
Residents enroll in an eight-credit clinical course each term (summer, fall, spring) and spend 24 hours per week in the clinical and/or hospital setting. Clinical courses are graded S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory).
Hospital Requirements
Hospital rotations take place at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. First year residents complete rotations in internal medicine, anesthesia and emergency department. Each rotation is 16 days in length and includes 128 total hours of hospital-based clinical experience. First year residents additionally complete 100 hours of emergency on-call treatment and consultations.
Second year residents choose two months of specialized rotations from options such as Radiation Oncology, ENT, Pediatric Dentistry, Plastics and General Surgery ICU. These advanced hospital-based rotations are not available to first year residents. Second year residents additionally spend two months in the OR at Aurora Sinai Medical Center.
Course Requirements
Elective Options
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| DENT 6001 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 1 (Emergency Medicine) | 1 |
| DENT 6001 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 1 (Dental Biomaterials) | 1 |
| DENT 6001 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 1 (Orthodontic Biomaterials) | 1 |
| DENT 6001 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 1 (Endodontic Biomaterials) | 1 |
| DENT 6001 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 1 (Clinical Photography) | 1 |
| DENT 6001 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 1 (Research Methods) | 1 |
| DENT 6001 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 1 (Prosthodontic Biomaterials) | 1 |
| DENT 6980 | Teaching Experience in Dentistry | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Technology and Informatics) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Craniofacial Growth and Development) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Advanced Oral Pathology) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Practice Management) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Pharmacology and Pain/Anxiety Management) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Biostatistics) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Radiology/Imaging) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Ethics) | 1 |
| DENT 6002 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 2 (Immunology/Oral Microbiology) | 1 |
| DENT 6953 | Seminar in Interdisciplinary Dentistry | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Oral Physiology) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Head and Neck Anatomy) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Implantology) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Pediatric Dentistry) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Mineralized Tissues) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Jurisprudence) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Speech Pathology) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Inflammation) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Public Health) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Tissue Engineering) | 1 |
| DENT 6003 | Dental Graduate Didactic Core Curriculum 3 (Practice Ethics) | 1 |
| DENT 6953 | Seminar in Interdisciplinary Dentistry | 1 |
