Dental Medicine General Practice Residency

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan opened in 1875 and is one of the oldest public hospitals in the country. A 338-bed Level II Trauma Center, NYC H+H/Metropolitan is located on the upper East Side of Manhattan on 97th Street and First Avenue and serves the East Harlem community. The Hospital has a dedicated staff of over 3,000 professional and skilled employees committed to serving the community. In addition to comprehensive inpatient services, MHC serves as the ' family doctor' to more than 320,000 ambulatory and emergency department patients annually.

The Department of Dental Medicine is comprised of Divisions of General Dental Practice and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The department is located on the 2nd floor of the Ambulatory Care Pavilion of the Hospital and consists of departmental offices, 10 state-of-the-art operatories, a surgical suite with recovery room, a reception area, waiting room, conference room, intra/extra oral digital radiography. Currently, five General Practice Residents train at Met each year.

Westchester Medical Center was established as a regional tertiary care hospital for the entire lower Hudson Valley in 1971 when it began its affiliation with New York Medical College. Previously the institution functioned as a community hospital called Grasslands Hospital. As a tertiary care regional center, WMC serves a seven-county area utilizing air transport to quickly transfer patients from all community hospitals within the service.

A 652-bed tertiary care Level 1 Trauma Center, WMC is located in Valhalla, NY, adjacent to New York Medical College's campus, approximately 20 miles north of Manhattan. WMC serves the seven-county Mid-Hudson Region. Currently, three General Practice residents train at WMC each year. The Department of Dental Medicine is comprised of Divisions of General Dental Practice and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

The department is located on the 1st floor of the Macy Pavilion and consists of departmental offices, 5 state of the art operatories, a surgical suite with recovery room, a reception area, waiting room, conference room and intra/extra oral digital radiography.

Phelps Hospital/Northwell Health and Open Door Family Medical Center have a collaborative arrangement whereby Open Door provides outpatient services and Phelps provides hospital-based experiences.

A 238-bed community hospital, Phelps is in Sleepy Hollow, NY, on the Hudson River in Westchester County, north of Manhattan. Phelps Hospital is a private, community-based, suburban, acute care hospital overlooking the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Open Door Family Medical Center has outpatient training sites at Port Chester, Sleepy Hollow, and Brewster, NY and a Dental Van. These dental suites have digital radiography, computerized practice management systems, and electronic dental records.

Open Door is designated a level 3 patient-centered medical home and provides comprehensive health care services to 40,000 patients with 170,000 visits. The Open Door Family Medical Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center with offices in Westchester and Putnam Counties, NY.

Twelve general practice residents train each year at Phelps, where they provide hospital consultation, take call, and complete emergency medicine and anesthesia rotations, and Open Door, where they provide outpatient treatment to dental patients at offices in Sleepy Hollow, Port Chester, and Brewster, and on a school-based dental van.