Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM) offers one of the most forward-looking educational environments in dental medicine in the country. Since its founding in 1868, TUSDM has been committed to leadership in education, patient care, research, and community service. Students obtain an interdisciplinary education, integrated with medicine, with access to training in dental specialties. Clinics managed at TUSDM provide quality comprehensive care to more than 20,000 individuals annually, including those with special needs. Nationally and internationally, the School promotes health and educational programs and researches new procedures, materials, and technologies to improve oral health. In the pre-doctoral clinic, comprehensive patient care is provided by student dentists under the direct supervision of dental faculty from the following departments: Comprehensive Care, Periodontology, Endodontics, Prosthodontics. The clinic is comprised of 6 group practices with each group led by 3 Practice Coordinators. Tufts University School of Dental Medicine Pre-Doctoral Clinics offer comprehensive dental care, including restorations, crowns, bridges, implant restorations, dentures, limited endodontics, limited esthetic dentistry, limited periodontics, and consultations in oral pathology, orthodontics and craniofacial pain. In the Pre-Doctoral Clinics, dental students provide services under the close supervision of experienced faculty dentists and specialists.
Position Overview
This position is for a full-time or part-time General Dentistry Clinical Faculty member at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (depending on qualifications) in the Comprehensive Care Department.
Reporting to the Chair of Comprehensive Care, the General Dentistry Clinical Faculty is responsible for managing students’ patient care based on the TUSDM Standards of Care and best practices of private general dental practice. This position may involve didactic, preclinical and clinical teaching and pursue of scholarly endeavors at both DMD and post-graduate level.
In Clinic, the General Dentistry Clinical Faculty provides instruction, evaluation, and guidance to students in all aspects of comprehensive patient care. This includes chairside teaching in diagnosis and treatment planning, as well as supervision of all general dentistry procedures performed by students in the TUSDM predoctoral Comprehensive Care clinic.
In both the clinic and the preclinic, the faculty must act as a role model and mentor while teaching the skills of ethics, patient relationship management, respect, professionalism.
As an informed faculty member, the General Dentistry Clinical Faculty communicates regularly and effectively with colleagues throughout the school ensures compliance with established protocols and standards and ensures the financial integrity of the clinic. In addition, they will be expected to serve on committees and accept other assignments from time to time at the request of the Dean and/or your Department Chair.
