Postgraduate Prosthodontics Mission, Goals and Objectives

Educate residents in the practice of prosthodontics.

• Objective 1.1: Student Selection - Identify, interview, and select applicants with exceptional integrity, motivation, industry, work ethic, resourcefulness, and the knowledge.
• Objective 1.2: Biomedical Sciences - Expose residents to the biomedical sciences, emphasize basic science-prosthodontic interrelationships, and encourage synthesis and application of this knowledge in clinical practice.
• Objective 1.3: Diagnosis & Treatment Planning - Provide residents with sufficient clinical and laboratory experience to become proficient in diagnostic data collection, diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment sequencing of complicated prosthodontic patients.
• Objective 1.4: Review of Relevant Professional Literature - Expose residents to prosthodontic and related literature to develop historical perspective and provide theoretical bases for diagnostics, techniques and procedures, management, successes, and failures/complications in the clinical practice of fixed, removable, implant, and maxillofacial prosthodontics.
• Objective 1.5: Dental Laboratory Skills - Ensure resident proficiency in laboratory procedures necessary to support the clinical diagnosis and treatment of prosthodontic patients.
• Objective 1.6: American Board of Prosthodontics - Prepare residents to meet the requirements for certification and successfully challenge the American Board of Prosthodontics examination.

Guide residents in the proficient delivery of state-of-the-art prosthodontic care to a therapeutically diverse patient population. Residents will manage their clinical activities so that patients are comfortable and treated in a timely and efficient manner.

• Objective 2.1: Clinical Proficiency - Train residents to provide prosthodontic care that addresses patients' needs in the areas of comfort, function, and esthetics.
• Objective 2.2: Patient Satisfaction - Train residents to provide quality, complete patient care in a timely and efficient manner using state-of-the-art technology and patient management skills so that patients are satisfied and become ambassadors for the program.
• Objective 2.3: Faculty - Provide a faculty composed of high quality dentists and prosthodontists with broad clinical skills, knowledge, and expertise.

Educate residents in the accomplishment of professionally valuable scientific research and scholarly activities.

• Objective 3.1: Research & Scholarly Activity - Provide formal instruction on research design, research protocol development, biostatistics, and report/thesis writing.
• Objective 3.2: Master of Dental Science Program - Ensure that all residents accomplish scientific research, provide public defense of this work, submit a thesis, and receive a Master of Dental Science degree upon successful completion.

Provide the opportunity for residents to participate in prosthodontic dental teaching and other service-based activities to prepare them to become emissaries for the College of Dentistry, the dental profession, and the specialty of prosthodontics.

• Objective 4.1: Teaching - Arrange for residents to serve as teaching assistants in the predoctoral prosthodontic curriculum at the College of Dentistry.
• Objective 4.2: Service - Encourage residents to join national and international prosthodontic organizations with the expectation that they will contribute to dentistry, to their specialty, and to their local communities through service.