UFCD Advanced & Graduate Students: 
Resident Responsibilities

The position of resident involves a combination of supervised, progressively more complex and independent patient evaluation, management functions and formal educational activities.  Among a resident’s responsibilities in a training program at the University are the following: 

• To meet the qualifications for resident eligibility outlined in Specialty Guidelines of the American Dental Association’s Council on Dental Accreditation (CODA); 

• To develop a personal program of self-study and professional growth with guidance from the teaching staff; 

• To provide safe, effective and compassionate patient care, commensurate with the resident’s level of advancement, responsibility, and competence, under the general supervision of appropriately privileged attending teaching staff; 

• To engage in full participation in the educational activities of the program and, as required, assumption the responsibility for teaching and supervising other residents and students; to participate in institutional orientation and education programs and other activities involving the clinical staff; submit to the program director confidential written evaluations of the faculty and the education experiences; 

• Participate in institutional committees and councils to which the resident is appointed or invited, especially those that relate to patient care review activities, and participation in institutional programs and activities involving the staff; 

• To adhere to established practices, procedures, policies and rules of the University or affiliated institutions as applicable, including among others, state licensure requirements training where these exist; 

• To develop an understanding of ethical, communication, socioeconomic and medical/legal issues that affect graduate dental education and practice; to apply cost effective patient care.