Dental Medicine General Practice Residency
The General Practice Residency Program (GPR) is an American Dental Association CODA accredited one-year program with an optional second year. The program has three clinical training sites and fulfills the New York State requirements for licensure by PGY-1 training as well as the mandated 12-month post-doctoral year. The training sites within the program’s clinical consortium are:
- NYC Health + Hospitals / Metropolitan
- Westchester Medical Center
- Phelps Hospital (Northwell Health) / Open Door Family Medical Center
How to Apply
The NYMC GPR participates in the American Dental Education Association Postdoctoral Application Support Service (ADEA PASS). When ranking the Program for the Match, applicants can select any or all of the three training sites: Metropolitan, WMC, and/or Phelps/Open Door. The Program will only rank applicants for their stated preferred site(s). Residents do not regularly rotate among training sites, although residents at Phelps/Open Door train in additional hospital experiences including on call. Clinical site assignments will be based on resident preference at the time of Match.
Application Essentials
For your PASS application to be considered complete, it must include the following materials:
- 2 x 2 Passport Photo
- Application Fee of US$ 40.00 (Checks/money orders should be made payable to: NYMC/Dental Medicine Account #210410)
Application Snapshot
Where you apply: PASS Application
Application Deadline: July 1
Program Length: 1 Year (Option second year)
Number of Positions: 20 spots
Training Curriculum
The program encompasses a holistic training approach - offering both didactic and clinical training. At all training sites, patient care is comprehensive and is kept within the concepts of general dental practice in both hospital and ambulatory practice environments. The Program is designed for postdoctoral training and is not to be construed as an extension of doctoral training. The diverse disciplines covered in our program include:
- Restorative dentistry
- Prosthodontics
- Periodontics
- Endodontics
- Pediatric dentistry
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Anesthesiology
- Inpatient care
- Medical assessments
- Pain/anxiety management
- Special needs patient care
Training takes place in a multitude of settings including outpatient suites, inpatient floors, anesthesia, emergency medicine, and medicine departments, and operating room areas of our clinical consortium training sites. The didactic portion of the Program includes lectures, conferences, and presentations via live videoconferencing, community activities, and hands-on training including simulation.
Training Sites
NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
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
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 Centers
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.
Guidance and Accreditation Standards
Resident training occurs under the preceptorship of the attending faculty staff, which is comprised of general practitioners as well as specialists. To learn more about our faculty's expertise and program leadership, please refer to the Leadership and Faculty page. The foundational structure of our training program is based on the Standards for General Practice Residency set by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation.
