THE 30 MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM IN ORTHODONTICS

 Maintenance in good standing within the training program will be based on four instructional areas.  Satisfactory progress must be documented in all areas for residents to stay off probationary status.  Inadequate performance in one area will be cause for probation, deficient performance in two areas will be cause for remedial status, deficiencies in three or more areas may lead to dismissal from the training program.

 Four areas and minimal requirements are as follows:

Clinical Training

Quality assessment (Semester evaluations)

 Subjective written evaluation by graduate clinic instructors

Overall progress must be at a B level to maintain full standing.  Yearly evaluation of progress cases (5 per resident).

 Objective evaluation:  50 cases started and finished of which 25 are PAR scored with a score less than 8 and an average 70% reduction in PAR score.

Patient Contact

 Quantitative Assessment

 First year residents must have a minimum of 2 patient contacts per day the clinic is open.  Second and third year residents MUST have a minimum of 6 contacts per day the clinic is open. Failure to achieve these minimum contacts will result in an unsatisfactory performance rating for that quarter.

Didactic Instruction

No grade lower than a B in core coursework and a grade point average as set forth by the Graduate Studies Office.

Thesis Work

 Met all thesis deadlines for on time completion of the thesis

Deadlines starting on First Year:

Dec 17-              Identification of a thesis topic and tentative thesis advisor.

April 15-             Proposal defense and committee established.

Sept 30-             Literature review completed and submitted to committee

Feb 1-                Data collected

July 1-                Final thesis submitted to Graduate Studies Office.