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The
Externship Program is offered to visiting predoctoral dental students.
Externships provide an educational experience designed to familiarize
a predoctoral dental student with the postdoctoral program and its
faculty, and to provide the director and faculty an opportunity to
evaluate the qualities of the student who may be a potential applicant
to the program. An interested predoctoral dental student (rising or
current senior) may apply for an externship through the Office
of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs by completing an "Application
for Externship" form. The program director for the externship
will review the application to determine if it is feasible for the
student to attend at the time requested.
ADVANCED EDUCATION IN GENERAL DENTISTRY
An externship in the Advanced Education in General Dentistry program
(AEGD) is available to interested dental students. Externs will attend
lectures, literature reviews, and case presentations with the General
Dentistry residents. In addition, they may provide dental care to
medically compromised outpatients and inpatients in the Hospital Dentistry
Clinic. The extern will assist with a variety of procedures in the
Advanced General Dentistry Clinic (AGDC) including esthetic gingival
surgery, bonded porcelain restorations, implant surgery and restoration,
and other advanced procedures. Limited experiences treating patients
in the AGDC may be available.
ENDODONTICS
Externs to the Advanced Education Program in Endodontics attend seminars,
case presentations, appropriate lectures, and literature reviews with
both the first and second year endodontic residents. The specific
topics will be dependent on the time of year of their externship.
Normally these externships occur during the spring semester. Externs
will also spend a significant amount of time observing the treatment
of patients in the graduate clinic. Preclinical exercises on extracted
teeth will be available. Externs will also be allowed to observe and,
if appropriate, assist in any research in progress in the department.
HOSPITAL DENTISTRY
The externship in Hospital Dentistry is intended to expose dental
students to dental care in the hospital environment. The length of
the externship can be no shorter than one week (7 days) and has no
restriction on the maximum length. During this time period externs
will provide dental care to outpatients and inpatients in the Hospital
Dentistry Clinic. These patients have a variety of medical problems
that include severe heart problems, severe diabetes, AIDS, and many
are candidates for organ transplantation. The care performed is acute
in nature, such as extractions, incision and drainage of facial abscesses,
and the management of fractured, displaced and avulsed teeth. In addition,
numerous intravenous sedations are performed during which the extern
can act as an assistant. The Hospital Clinic is extremely busy, treating
an average of 400 patients a month and the hospital service is asked
to complete approximately 20-25 consults per month. Two dental rehabilitation
cases are managed in the operating room every week under general anesthesia,
and the extern would also be expected to assist in these cases. Dental
inpatient consults are managed routinely and the extern would assist
in the evaluation of the patients and be responsible for his findings
on rounds held most mornings. Finally, the extern would be expected
to accompany residents on call to the hospital emergency room after
hours on a rotating basis. The hospital is a Level 1 trauma center
and the dental call is busy treating between 6 to 7 patients a night.
Externs will also be given the opportunity to attend any ongoing didactics
within the graduate General Dentistry programs.
ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL RADIOLOGY
The Dental Diagnostic Science department of the UTHSCSA has an experienced
faculty and state-of-the-art equipment to provide training in all
the newest imaging modalities that are used and being developed in
dentistry. The student has an excellent opportunity to train in Direct
Digital Radiography that uses computers instead of films and will
eventually replace conventional periapical radiography in dental offices.
The acquired digital images can be enhanced and analyzed with the
advanced computer equipment and programs. The student can have training
in more advanced imaging methods for implant site evaluation, such
as cross-sectional imaging with Linear Tomography and Computer Tomography
that are routinely performed in the Department. Trauma cases, TMJ
cases and developmental defects of the skull can be evaluated with
an interactive 3-Dimensional Imaging Workstation that displays life-like
images of the patient.
ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
Externs in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery will be
exposed to a wide scope of surgical procedures including orthognathic
surgery, facial cosmetic surgery, temporomandibular joint surgery,
reconstructive surgery, dentoalveolar surgery, implant and preprosthetic
surgery, management of head and neck infections, and the management
of facial trauma. Externs will rotate at the various teaching hospitals
including Medical Center Hospital, Brady Green Community Health Center,
and the University of Texas Ambulatory Surgicenter with the staff
and residents of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
We welcome students from other institutions that are interested in
obtaining additional training as well as being potential applicants
for our advanced program. The specialty training in Pediatric Dentistry
at San Antonio is a unique program in that it combines the advantages
of a university based graduate program with the opportunities provided
in a hospital residency program. We are based out of the University
of Texas Health Science Center as well as at Santa Rosa Children's
Hospital, a tertiary care facility with a patient base that encompasses
all of southwest Texas. Our strength lies in the abundance of patients
available to us which ensures that our residents achieve excellent
clinical training in all areas of pediatric dentistry. The foundation
of our advanced education program is our didactic curriculum. Major
areas of study in our two year curriculum include the following areas:
behavior management; conscious sedation; special patient care; orthodontic
growth and development; clinical pediatric dentistry; hospital dentistry
as well as course work that indoctrinates the resident in the areas
of research, biostatistics and scientific writing. Our desire is that
graduates become pediatric dentists who are not only well trained
but are also excited about our specialty and who will be leaders capable
of shaping our specialty's future.
PERIODONTICS
This program will provide the opportunity for the extern who has an
interest in periodontics to observe advanced surgical techniques.
This will include, but not be limited to, procedures such as: open
flap debridement, bone grafts, guided tissue regeneration, and endosseous
dental implants. The extern will also have the opportunity to participate
in case presentations and didactic seminars/lectures. |
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