General Practice Dental Residency, Certificate
Hands-on experience led by dental health experts
As Wisconsin’s only dental school, we offer you the most advanced clinical resources and instructional technology available. Every step you take in our program will be guided by faculty and practicing professionals who uphold Marquette’s vision: to train highly skilled oral health care practitioners to bring top-quality dental care to urban and rural communities across the country — and around the world. We’ll prepare you to enter practice immediately upon graduation.
About the general practice dental residency certificate program
The general practice dental residency certificate program offers a comprehensive curriculum covering advanced aspects of general dentistry. The program integrates clinical practice with didactic learning and enables residents to collaborate with healthcare professionals from various medical disciplines in a hospital setting.
Marquette will assign only residents to Aurora who are licensed and authorized to engage in the practice of dental care under applicable laws and regulations in the United States.
Mission Statement
The General Practice Residency Program (GPR) is a twelve-month training program with the option of a second year aimed at providing post-graduate education and clinical training leading to proficiency in general dentistry.
The foundational goals include developing the graduate as:
- A primary care provider capable of providing emergency and multidisciplinary care withing the scope of general dentistry, coordinating and providing patient focused care and directing health promotion and disease prevention activities.
- A clinician proficient in planning and providing multidisciplinary oral health care for many types of patients, including those with special needs.
- A clinician capable of managing oral health care delivery by applying concepts of patient care, practice management and quality improvement responsive to a changing health care environment.
The GPR program emphasizes general dentistry, resident education, patient centered care and community service through post-graduate training and the delivery of oral health care in a hospital setting.
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First year residents (accepting max 4 residents) spend eight months providing comprehensive dental patient care at Marquette University School of Dentistry (MUSOD) clinics and spend an additional four months in a hospital setting completing clinical rotations.
Residents rotate through several hospital departments. They will spend a minimum of one month on anesthesia rotation, one month in the emergency department and one month on internal medicine rotation at our affiliated hospital Aurora Sinai Medical Center. Additionally, each resident will spend time with a different dental service within MUSOD including oral surgery, pediatrics, and special needs dental care, which will include providing and/or assisting with dentistry in the operating room.
Marquette University School of Dentistry's GPR program and its affiliation with Aurora Sinai Medical Center is only accepting new residents who have achieved dental degrees (DDS/DMD) from a United States dental-accredited school and who are licensed and authorized to engage in the practice of dental care under the state of Wisconsin.
Second-year residents (accepting max 2 residents) will spend eight months providing comprehensive dental patient care at Marquette University School of Dentistry (MUSOD) clinics (Urgent Care, Special Care Clinic and Pediatrics), two months in OMFS at MUSOD and an additional two rotations in a hospital setting. Additionally, second year residents choose hospital rotations beyond those offered to first year residents depending on areas of clinical interests. Options may include rotations in Radiation Oncology, ENT, Pediatric Dentistry, General Surgery and the ICU.
Only those residents who have successfully completed Year 1 of the GPR program at Marquette University School of Dentistry will be eligible to enroll in the optional second year. Prior to enrollment, the resident must submit a certificate of completion of MUSOD's one-year program to the Graduate School.
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Application Requirements
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Read all application instructions prior to beginning an application.
- If coursework was completed within the United States, submit copies of all current and previous college/universities except Marquette1
- Undergraduate and dental school grade-point averages, and class rank in dental school. If class rank is not listed on the official transcript, a dean's letter may be submitted to gradadmit@marquette.edu or as an additional reference through the online application.
- Scores from the National Board Dental Examinations, Part I and Part II OR the Integrated National Board Dental Examination.
- Not required from graduates of non-U.S./non-Canadian dental schools.
- Applicants who attend dental schools that do not offer letter grades or provide class rank are strongly recommended to submit ADAT scores. Official scores should be sent to gradadmit@marquette.edu.
1. Upon admission, final official transcripts from all previously attended colleges/universities, with certified English translations if original language is not English, must be submitted to the Graduate School within the first five weeks of the term of admission or a hold preventing registration for future terms will be placed on the student’s record.
2. Upon admission, an official course-by-course transcript/academic record evaluation must be submitted to the Graduate School within the first five weeks of the term of admission or a hold preventing registration for future terms will be placed on the student’s record.
