Resident Training Goals and Objectives Statements

Patient Assessment and Diagnosis

• Evaluates scientific literature and uses information in the literature in making professional decisions
• Selects and uses assessment techniques including making referrals to other health professionals to arrive at a differential, provisional and definitive diagnosis for patients with complex needs
• Obtains and interprets the patient's chief complaint, medical, dental, and social history, and review of systems, and establishes a risk assessment for use in the development of a dental treatment plan
• Performs dental consultations and requests medical consultations for hospitalized patients and patients in other health care settings
• Diagnoses and manages a patient's occlusion
• Develop an accurate endodontic diagnosis based on patient=s chief complaint, diagnostic tests, and clinical and radiographic examinations.
• Diagnoses and treats pain of pulpal origin
• Diagnoses and treats early periodontal disease using surgical and non-surgical procedures
• Diagnoses and treats moderate periodontal disease using surgical and non-surgical procedures
• Diagnoses, treatment plans and treats uncomplicated diseases and abnormalities of the pediatric patient
• Develops and carries out dental treatment plans for patients, including patients with special needs, in a manner that considers and integrates those patient's medical, psychological, and social needs
• Diagnosis and manages oral pathological abnormalities including oral manifestations of systemic disease
• Diagnoses and manages common oral pathological abnormalities

Planning and Providing Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Oral Health Care

• Functions as the patient's primary, comprehensive oral health care provider
• Integrates multiple disciplines into individualized, comprehensive, sequenced treatment plans for patients with uncomplicated and complex needs
• Modifies the treatment plan, if indicated, based on therapeutic outcomes, unexpected circumstances or the patient's individual needs
• Treats patients efficiently in the dental practice setting by working effectively with allied personnel, including performing sit-down four handed dentistry
• Provides dental care as a part of an inter-professional health care team such as that found in a hospital, institution, or community health care environment.
• Provides comprehensive management and care for individual inpatients or same-day surgery patients from the beginning to the end of a patient's hospital experience

Obtaining Informed Consent

• Obtains informed consent for dental treatment by discussing with patients, parents, or guardians of patients, the following: findings, diagnoses, the risks, benefits, and process of various treatment options; patient responsibilities during and after treatment; and estimated fees and payment responsibilities

Promoting Oral and Systemic Health

• Uses accepted prevention strategies to help patients maintain and improve their oral health and aspects of their systemic health

Sedation, Pain and Anxiety Control

• Provides comprehensive management and care for individual inpatients or same-day surgery patients from the beginning to the end of a patient's hospital experience
• Uses non-pharmacologic behavior management skills with the pediatric patient
• Manages the anxious patient using oral pre-medication
• Manages anxious patients using nitrous oxide/oxygen analgesia
• Understands patient management using IV sedation.

Restoration of Teeth

• Restores single teeth with a wide range of materials and methods
• Places restorations and performs techniques to enhance patient's facial esthetics
• Restores endodontically treated teeth
• Restores intra and extra-coronal defects in the primary dentition

Replacement of Teeth using Fixed and Removable Appliances

• Treats patients with missing teeth requiring removable restorations
• Treats patients with missing teeth requiring fixed restorations
• Diagnoses and manages a patient's occlusion
• Communicates case design with laboratory technicians and evaluate the resultant prostheses

Periodontal Therapy

• Manages the surgical component of dental implant systems
• Diagnoses and treats early periodontal disease using surgical and non-surgical procedures
• Diagnoses and treats moderate periodontal disease using surgical and non-surgical procedures
• Manages advanced periodontal disease
• Evaluates the results of periodontal treatment and establishes and monitors a
• periodontal maintenance program

Pulpal Therapy

• Access, cleanse and obturate anterior teeth
• Access, cleanse and obturate premolar teeth
• Access, cleanse and obturation molar teeth
• Manage endodontic emergency pain intra-operatively and postoperatively
• Perform apical closures and/or apicoectomies
• Treats patients with intra-oral dental emergencies and infections
• Diagnoses and treats pain of pulpal origin
• Performs uncomplicated non-surgical anterior endodontic therapy
• Treats uncomplicated endodontic complications

Hard and Soft Tissue Surgery

• Manages the surgical component of dental implant systems
• Performs surgical and non-surgical extraction of teeth
• Extracts uncomplicated impacted wisdom teeth
• Performs initial treatment and management of extra-oral and intra-oral hard and soft tissue lesions of traumatic origin.
• Treats intra-oral hard and soft tissue lesions of traumatic origin
• Diagnosis and manages oral pathological abnormalities including oral manifestations of systemic disease
• Diagnoses and treats early periodontal disease using surgical and non-surgical procedures
• Diagnoses and treats moderate periodontal disease using surgical and non-surgical procedures
• Manages advanced periodontal disease
• Perform apical closures and/or apicoectomies

Treatment of Dental and Medical Emergencies

• Treats patients with intra-oral dental emergencies and infections
• Prevents, recognizes, and manages complications of medical emergencies including those related to the use and interactions of local anesthetics and other drugs.
• Diagnoses and treats pain of pulpal origin
• Manage endodontic emergency pain intra-operatively and postoperatively

Medical Risk Assessment

• Obtains and interprets the patient's chief complaint, medical, dental, and social history,
• and review of systems, and establishes a risk assessment for use in the development of a dental treatment plan
• Selects and uses assessment techniques including making referrals to other health professionals to arrive at a differential, provisional and definitive diagnosis for patients with complex needs
• Performs dental consultations and requests medical consultations for hospitalized patients and patients in other health care settings
• Provides dental care as a part of an inter-professional health care team such as that found in a hospital, institution, or community health care environment.
• Develops and carries out dental treatment plans for patients, including patients with special needs, in a manner that considers and integrates those patient's medical, psychological, and social needs.

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