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AEGD Goals and Objectives

Swope Health’s AEGD Residency Program seeks to train compassionate family dentists who are committed to caring for our diverse communities of focus through a health equity lens. The program’s areas of emphasis are general dentistry, resident education, patient care and community service.

General Dentistry

Goal: To be competent dental providers who use an innovative training model to emphasize a community based, equitable approach to providing whole person care. The residents will receive clinical and didactic training in general dentistry, taking a multidisciplinary approach to provide comprehensive dental treatment to healthy and medically complex patients.


Objectives:

  1. Provide residents with advanced knowledge, skills, competency and proficiency in general dentistry beyond pre doctoral training.

  2. Provide residents with experiences to effectively treat the whole person while understanding the social determinants of oral health care. 

  3. Provide residents with experiences and instruction in providing emergency oral health care, promote healthy alternatives, prevent disease and use advanced dental treatment modalities. 

  4. Provide residents with experiences through a multifaceted approach including health equity, integrated team-based care and community focused care.

Resident Education

Goal: To apply scientific knowledge and critical thinking to oral health care beyond the predoctoral training to include evidence based clinical decision making.

Objectives:

  1. Provide residents with experiences to enhance problem solving skills for complex and special needs patient care.

  2. Develop skills to appropriately assess and coordinate the treatment of patients by utilizing an integrated care model.

  3. Provide residents with experiences to review current literature and apply scientific knowledge via problem solving activities.

  4. Provide residents with experiences discussing patient situations in the context of seminars and case reviews by applying evidence based clinical decision-making skills.

Patient Care

Goal: To enhance the delivery of quality patient care through effective patient management, practice management and continuous quality improvement measures, and will be trained to contribute as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team which promotes total body health.


Objectives:

  1. Provide residents training on a fully integrated electronic medical record system for multidisciplinary care.

  2. Provide residents with experiences to make clinical decisions based on complexity of patients and didactic lectures to ensure residents are culturally and ethically competent.

  3. Provide residents with opportunities to demonstrate practice management skills including time management, workflow optimization and effective teamwork.

  4. Provide standards to track UDS sealant measures and quality of care processes.

  5. Provide regular assessments of patient satisfaction surveys and peer and faculty reviews for quality improvement.

Community Service

Goal: To understand and address the unique oral health needs of our communities by actively engaging in community service, providing services that exhibit professional ethics, lifelong learning, patient centered care, adaptability and cultural diversity to promote oral health.

Objectives:

  1. Provide residents with opportunities to participate in community non-dental related outreach engagements.

  2. Provide increased access to care through outreach via mobile dental units and school-based oral health programs.

  3. Provide residents opportunities to mentor our undergraduate and dental students during their external rotations.

  4. Provide residents with opportunities for mentoring relationships with experienced dentists and specialists. 

Laboratory and Radiology

At most locations, Swope Health offers in-house laboratory services, including:
  • Hemoglobin
  • White blood cell count/differential
  • Urinalysis
  • Glucose (Hemoglobin A1c)
  • Influenza testing
  • Pregnancy testing
  • Mammograms
  • X-rays
  • Ultrasound procedures
  • And more...

COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted to recommend an updated  COVID-19 vaccine against recent strains. The new vaccine provides protection against serious illness from most variants that are currently circulating.

Are you up-to-date on your COVID-19 vaccination? If not or, if you’re unsure, we offer the vaccine, as well as COVID-19 testing.  Please call 816-923-5800.

Read the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about COVID-19 symptoms, vaccinations, and treatment.

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