Pediatric Dentistry Residency

All Penn Dental Medicine postdoctoral students participate in a core curriculum lecture series their first year to enhance and augment the biomedical and basic science educational components of the specialty programs. Collective inter-programmatic decisions have identified areas for specialties and expertise from the clinical and basic science faculties. This interaction between the different specialty programs and the basic science departments of Penn Dental Medicine enables presentation of a biomedical lecture series at an enhanced educational level.

This program's core didactic curriculum will cover all aspects of pediatric dentistry and will complement the wide range of clinical experiences that residents will encounter, including orthodontic care. These components of the program will be strengthened by hospital rotations through which residents will gain a deeper understanding of medical conditions and learn to work closely with medical colleagues and other members of the healthcare team.

Program-Specific Curriculum

• Physical, psychological, and social development
• Behavior management, non-pharmacologic
• Informed consents
• Conscious sedation, deep sedation, and general anesthesia
• Epidemiology of oral diseases, including special needs children
• Oral diseases and clinical laboratory
• Oral pathology
• Radiology and radiation hygiene
• Specific basis for prevention and treatment of caries, periodontal diseases, pulpal disorders, trauma, and developmental anomalies
• Prevention and management of medical emergencies
• Medical conditions/special needs patients and modification and delivery of care
• Craniofacial growth and development
• Child abuse and neglect
• Treatment planning for special needs patients
• Pediatric medicine fundamentals
• Pediatric medicine, specialty care
• Speech and language development
• Practice management
• Jurisprudence and risk management
• Computers in dentistry and education
• Biomedical ethics
• Adolescent considerations
• Case review
• Journal Club