Didactic instruction

An extensive number of lectures and seminars are given by our program faculty, including formal series in pain control/sedation, medical risk assessment, oral surgery, periodontics, endodontics, pediatric dentistry, implant surgery and prosthetics, operative and prosthodontics, special patient care, and business and practice management. To supplement these, speakers from various hospital departments and from around the Chicago area are brought in on a regular basis to lecture on a wide variety of topics. Residents participate in an ACLS/BLS course, a history and physical course, and an ongoing diagnosis and treatment planning Patient Care Conference scheduled monthly throughout the residency year.

The Journal Club experience for dental residents at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center consists of at least nine two-hour didactic sessions during the residency year emphasizing the basics of evidence-based healthcare.