Didactic Program

The didactic component of this residency program includes:

• Weekly patient care conferences that review treatment planning of dental cases in medically complex population (e.g.: oncology, cardiac surgery, transplant clearance patients)
• Monthly Oral Medicine patient care conferences reviewing select oral medicine cases (e.g.: oral lesions, oral mucosal disorders, salivary gland disorders, orofacial pain)
• Weekly Oral Medicine literature review seminars
• Preparation for American Board of Oral Medicine board examination (winterspring)
• A practical course on evidencebased dentistry, and skills interpreting the literature and research design (monthly)

Additional didactic material includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Laboratory medicine
• Pharmacology
• Management of acute/chronic pain
• Oral pathology
• Oral radiology (principles, techniques and interpretation)
• Oral manifestations of systemic disease
• Oral complications of cancer therapy (ex: oral mucositis, medication related osteonecrosis of the jaw)
• Oral mucosal disorders
• Autoimmune disorders to include Sjogren’s Syndrome
• Management of medically compromised patients
• Pharmacology
• Salivary gland dysfunction and pathology
• Nutrition
• Sleep medicine
• Clinical photography