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Thank you for your interest in continuing your education with a General Practice Residency in Dentistry at Lehigh Valley Health Network. More >>

About the General Practice Residency Programs in Dentistry
Lehigh ValleyHealth Network offers two distinct one-year accredited dental residency programs. These programs are designed to reinforce and expand on the principles learned in a four-year pre-doctoral dental program while the resident delivers advanced comprehensive dental care in the hospital environment. You can apply to both programs via a single application through PASS. However, each program participates separately in the Match and therefore you have the ability to rank each site according to your preference. While all our residents share the didactic portion of our program, all clinical experiences will be at the site you match with. The programs will enable the resident to:

• Develop confidence in clinical and patient management skills.
• Become confident and competent in the care of medically compromised patients.
• Become competent in admitting patients to the hospital and providing care in the operating room setting. Residents are encouraged to maintain hospital privileges after completion of their residency.
• Perform critical and scientific reviews of the dental and medical literature.
• Form an attitude of discipline for lifelong continuing education.
• Deliver comprehensive dental care and gain experience in oral surgery, operative dentistry, preventive dentistry, fixed and removable prosthetics, periodontics, endodontics, pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, implant dentistry and pain and anxiety control.
• Be familiar with the business skills needed to operate and manage a private dental practice.
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Overall Goals and Objectives
Our program goals emphasize general dentistry, resident education, patient care and community service and include training residents to provide oral health care in a hospital setting. More >>

Resident Training Goals and Objectives Statements
The programs’ goals and objectives for resident training and the programs’ clinical and didactic training include each of the following areas at a level of skill and complexity beyond that accomplished in pre-doctoral training: More >>

Course of Study at Lehigh Valley Health Network GPR Programs
Highlights of our programs include: restorative dentistry, endodontics, pediatric dentistry, oral surgery, prosthetics, periodontics, special care, implants, orthodontics and a didactic program. More >>

Rotations Provided At Each Site
Rotations provided at each site include: anesthesia, emergency medicine and family practice/internal medicine. More >>

Additional Information About Our Programs
CPR certification is required prior to beginning the residency program, and Advanced Cardiac Life Support is provided by the hospital during orientation week. More >>

Curriculum at Lehigh Valley Hospital-17th Street
Located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, this is a one-year ADA accredited residency program designed to provide the dental graduate with an understanding of systemic disease, its relationship to oral disease and the application of this knowledge to comprehensive treatment of dental patients. More >>

Curriculum at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg
The Department of Dentistry offers an American Dental Association accredited General Practice Residency in General Dentistry which has completed more than twenty-five years of service to the public and to the education of recent dental graduates. More >>

Application
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