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VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York - VISN 2
Rotations
The rotations included in the General Practice Residency Program, as mandated by the American Dental Association, include:
| Restorative Clinic |
6 months |
| Oral Surgery Clinic |
3 months |
| Hospital Protocol and Orientation |
1 week |
| Medicine |
4 weeks |
| Anesthesia |
70 hours |
| Physical Diagnosis |
20 hours |
| Emergency Room |
75 hours |
| CPR, ACLS |
Certification |
July is Orientation Month. The first week is spent with attending dentists in reviewing hospital and Dental Service protocols and learning the computer medical record. Residents spend time in Restorative Clinic beginning in comprehensive care dentistry, in Oral Surgery Clinic, and in the Anesthesiology Service getting acquainted with operating room protocol.
Medicine Rotation begins in August with rotations through Cardiology Service, Hematology-Oncology, Infectious Disease, Pulmonary, Radiology, Radiation Therapy and Nuclear Medicine service. When not assigned to a service within the hospital, the resident will be back in clinic treating their comprehensive care patients.
From September-November, December-February, March-May, residents spend two months in Restorative Clinic and one month in Oral Surgery Clinic. Physical Diagnosis, Anesthesia Rotation and Emergency Room Rotation are interspersed during this time. The hospital physicians' assistants conduct the physical diagnosis course, learning the process of taking a history and doing a medical assessment of the patient. During assignment to Anesthesiology Service, residents participate in the administration of anesthesia and monitoring of the surgical patient under the direct supervision of an anesthesiologist. Emergency Room Rotation, where the resident becomes acquainted with the triage and management of medical emergencies, is conducted at our area's trauma center located across the street from the Stratton VAMC, at Albany Medical Center Hospital.
Emergency On-Call
Residents are responsible for being on call for emergencies one week out of every three weeks. The Stratton VA Medical Center provides paging beepers allowing on call staff mobility. An attending dentist is on call as a back up for consultation and/or assistance. The nature of our on-call service is for true dental emergencies and not for care of chronic dental neglect, which is addressed during regular clinic hours.
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| Reviewed/Updated Date: June 10, 2006 |
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