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EDUCATION
Residency Program Description and Curriculum - Postdoctoral Website
By design and in accordance with the Commission on Accreditation Requirements for Advanced Education Programs and the ADA Council on Dental Education, this two (2) year, accredited pediatric residency certificate program prepares the postdoctoral resident for active roles in clinical practice, education, and leadership. The curriculum provides broad-based clinical exposure to an extensive and diverse patient pool enabling the postdoctoral resident to treat the well, medically compromised, and special healthcare needs child utilizing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management techniques with confidence at several practice settings including New York Presbyterian Hospital, Children's Hospital of New York and Columbia University's College of Dental Medicine. Upon program completion, the postdoctoral resident receives a Certificate in Pediatric Dentistry and meets the advanced education eligibility requirements of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. Further, as one of three Leadership Training programs in the country with support from the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, this designation supports focused training and facilitates resident exploration of careers in pediatric dentistry that involve not only clinical care but also teaching, research, area health, public policy at the state and national level, and advanced care of children with special healthcare needs.
Course study includes clinically oriented multidisciplinary basic science core courses. Clinical curriculum consists of clinical practice in advanced pediatric dentistry, preventive and interceptive orthodontics, nitrous oxide/oxygen psychosedation, treatment for children with special healthcare needs, operating room protocol, oral sedation, and pediatric oral trauma management. Didactic curriculum includes weekly seminars on pediatric theory, classic and contemporary literature, research methodology, oral medicine, oral pathology, orthodontics, cephalometrics, cariology, pediatric medicine, methodology in preventive dentistry, and advanced pediatric dental research, and a series of courses that explore children's oral health in the context of family, community, and society; alternative career options, and partnerships with others who serve the interest of children's health and welfare. Original research leading to a publishable paper must also be completed during the residency period. Postdoctoral residents spend two weeks on mandatory rotations in the Pediatric Medicine, two weeks in the Emergency Department, and one month in Anesthesiology all within Children's Hospital of New York. Other rotators include the Craniofacial Team, School Based Clinics, Mobile Van Based Clinics, Epidermolysis Bullosa Clinic, Clinical Instruction Preceptorship, and opportunities for University sponsored direct care externships abroad.
Program Director, Postdoctoral Residency
Richard K. Yoon, DDS
Admission Procedure
Application deadline is October 1 of the year preceding matriculation. Correspondence regarding application and admission procedures should be addressed to:
Ms. Jackie Melendez, Administrator
Columbia University Medical Center
Division of Pediatric Dentistry
630 West 168th Street, P&S 3-450
New York City, New York 10032
Email: jim14@columbia.edu
Telephone: 212-305-7951
Description of Predoctoral Program
The Columbia D.D.S. candidate spends over one year with our division learning to understand and manage children in the health care environment and to provide them with the best possible dental care.
The educational experiences in pediatric dentistry are organized into several phases beginning in the third year. The course "Theory and Practice of Pediatric Dentistry" begins in the winter of the third year. The course includes two lecture hours per week. There are ten preclinical laboratory sessions to help students prepare to perform clinical procedures for children. Students begin Pediatric Clinic in March, and spend one clinical session per week throughout the year. Fourth year students also spend one session per week in Pediatric Dentistry, from June through February. The Pediatric Dentistry Area of Concentration allows students with a special interest in pediatrics to spend time in evening clinics, seminars and other related activity.
The pediatric experience is directed by two philosophical goals: (1) to obtain optimum oral health for the child through the pursuit of excellence in contemporary preventive, interceptive, and restorative concepts, and (2) to create a positive understanding and acceptance of dentistry on the part of the child patient. The lectures on techniques, materials, growth and development, and behavior management are carefully coordinated with the required, assigned readings.
Director, Predoctoral Program
Shantanu Lal, BDS, DDS |
